The effectiveness of music as a nursing intervention on depression in adult people of dialysis

Depression is becoming an increasingly serious mental health problem in the world. According to the World Health Organization (who), depression affects more than 300 million people worldwide in 2015, accounting for about 4.4% of the world's total population. Depression causes a huge loss of human health, which is 7.5% of the total number of disabled people. On the other hand, depression is also the main cause of suicide death. Nearly 800000 people die of depression every year. (World Health Organization 2017, 5) Depression is also the most important complication of dialysis patients in mental illness. The occurrence of depression increases the difficulty of treatment and nursing of dialysis patients, reduces the quality of life of patients and leads to the increase of mortality of dialysis patients. According to statistics, 42.7% of dialysis patients have different degrees of depression. (Flavio, Vega, Claudio, Milma, Maria & Rosilene 2014) Music therapy is a non-invasive intervention therapy, which can be easily accepted by patients to alleviate psychological problems and help patients cope with their psychological status. Music therapy has been proved to be an effective way to treat patients with depression. Effective music intervention can improve the quality of life of dialysis patients and guide nurses in the treatment of depression