EFFECT OF SPIRITUAL SONGS ON THE WELL–BEING OF CLIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER IN A SELECTED HOSPITAL AT MANGALURU

NANCY PRIYA MATHIAS; MRS. SHWETHA RASHMI

Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2018

EFFECT OF SPIRITUAL SONGS ON THE WELL–BEING OF CLIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER IN A SELECTED HOSPITAL AT MANGALURU

Nancy Priya Mathias, Mrs. Shwetha Rashmi

Abstract :

An Evaluatory approach with one group pre–test post–test, pre–experimental design was used to find the effect of spiritual songs on wellbeing of clients diagnosed with cancer. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 40 clients diagnosed with cancer. The emotional and spiritual wellbeing of clients diagnosed with cancer was assessed using FACIT–Scale. The computed‘t’ value was found to be 11.97 which was significantly greater than the table value

t (39) =2.02, which showed that there was a significant difference between the pre–intervention and post– intervention spiritual and emotional well–being. Hence it was inferred that the spiritual songs enhance the well–being of the clients diagnosed with cancer.