Date of Award
8-2025
Document Type
DNP Project
Degree Name
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Degree Discipline
Nursing Practice
Abstract
Background: Arts-based interventions (ABIs) harness the transformative power of art to enhance processes or situations, particularly those related to physiological, emotional, and psychological well-being. There are three types of arts-based interventions: visual, literary, and performing arts. Among these, music therapy, a form of performing arts intervention, has gained recognition as an effective approach for addressing mental health challenges. Music therapy has shown promise in reducing anxiety symptoms, offering a non-invasive and accessible form of support within ABI strategies. Purpose: This project assessed changes in nurse practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and practices, as well as their intentions to utilize music-based interventions in clinical practice. PICO Question: In Nurse Practitioners, how will a music-based therapy educational session impact post-intervention KAP scores compared to pre-intervention KAP scores and influence their intention to utilize music-based interventions for patients with anxiety? Theoretical Framework: The RE-AIM framework was
employed for this project due to its ability to evaluate the effectiveness and sustainability of interventions. Methods: A knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) survey was utilized pre- and post-intervention to capture differences in participants’ responses. Data Analysis: The Intellectus Statistics software program was used to analyze the data. Two-tailed paired samples t-tests and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests were performed to determine the significance of participants’ scores before and after the intervention. Results: The pre-intervention knowledge median was 2.33. The post-intervention knowledge median was 4.83. The pre-intervention median attitude score was 3.33, and the post-intervention median score was 4.33. The pre-intervention intention to utilize score was 4.00, and the post-intervention median was 4.50. Conclusion: This DNP project validated that an educational session for nurse practitioners on music-based interventions increased the knowledge, attitudes, practices, and change in intention to utilize. Recommendations for Future Research: Conduct longitudinal studies, establish a control group, expand implementation, examine the impact of music-based interventions on patient clinical outcomes, and assess the change in practice post-intervention.
Keywords: anxiety, arts-based interventions, knowledge, attitudes and practices, music-based interventions, nurse practitioners
Committee Chair/Advisor
Sharisse Hebert
Committee Member
Gloria Rose
Committee Member
Chloe Gaines
Committee Member
Vivian Dawkins
Publisher
Prairie View A&M University
Rights
© 2021 Prairie View A & M University
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Date of Digitization
09/08/2025
Contributing Institution
J. B . Coleman Library
City of Publication
Prairie View
MIME Type
Application/PDF
Recommended Citation
Henderson, L. (2025). Educating Nurse Practitioners On Music-Based Interventions: An Evidence-Based Project. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/dnp-projects/11