The Effect of Different Genres of Music on Blood Pressure among Different Age Groups
Pavithra Sekhar
Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
A. Jothi Priya *
Department of Physiology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
R. Gayatri Devi
Department of Physiology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Many people listen to music during their day to day activities. Music is a combination of frequency, beat, density, tone, rhythm, repetition, loudness and lyrics. When we listen to fast beat music we get excited and slow beat music makes us to relax.There are different genres of music like rock, hip hop, pop ,classical, country, fazzy and these types of music has effect on blood pressure.The aim of the study is to know whether different types of music has effect on blood pressure or not. For this a cross sectional survey was conducted. This survey consisted of a self structured questionnaire. The sample size used for the study is 101. This standard questionnaire has been prepared and uploaded in google forms and circulated among the population, all the data were collected and the data has been analysed by using chi square analysis using the software IBM SPSS. The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of different genres of music on blood pressure among the different age groups.
Keywords: Blood pressure, Music, stress, anxiety, music therapy