The Effect of Exercise and Music on Sleep, Quality of Life and Emotional State in Children With Epilepsy

This randomized controlled experimental study will be conducted to evaluate the effect of progressive relaxation exercise and music recital before going to sleep on sleep, quality of life and emotional state in children with epilepsy. The study will be conducted with children aged 9-16 years and their mothers hospitalized in a tertiary care hospital. Children in the progressive relaxation exercise (n=15), music recital (n=15) and control (n=15) groups will be selected similarly in terms of age, gender, educational status, duration of diagnosis and number. The data of the study will be collected with the Quality of Life Scale in Children Parent Form (QoLQS-PPP), Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 (PSCL-17), Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) to be administered to mothers and the Quality of Life Scale in Children Child and Adolescent Form (QoLQ-C), Me and My Emotions in Children and Adolescents Scale (MEAS), and Sleep Deprivation Scale for Children and Adolescents (PSSAD) to be administered to children. Children in the PRE group will be asked to do PRE before going to sleep five days a week (4 weeks) with a PRE video for a total of 15 minutes each session. Children in the music group will be asked to listen to the selected music before going to sleep five days a week (4 weeks) for a total of 15 minutes each session. These scales will be applied to the children before the interventions (Time 1). After the interventions were performed five days a week (4 weeks) for a total of 15 minutes each session before going to sleep, the same scales will be applied again (Time 2) and the results of the study will be compared. Children in the control group will receive standard treatment. In the evaluation of the data showing normal distribution; Student t (between 2 groups) and One Way ANOVA (more than 2 groups) tests will be used to test whether there is a difference between two independent groups; Paired-samples t test will be used to test whether there is a difference between the measurements before and after the intervention. In the evaluation of non-normally distributed data; Mann-Whitney U (between 2 groups) and Kruskal-Wallis Analysis of Variance (more than 2 groups) tests will be used to test whether there is a difference between two independent groups; Wilcoxon Paired-Samples Test will be used to test whether there is a difference between pre and post intervention measurements. A value of p<0.05 was considered statistically significant in data analysis.

Inclusion criteria

• Between the ages of 9-16,
• Does not have a chronic or genetic disease other than epilepsy,
• No mental, visual or hearing impairment,
• Having a mother who is at least a primary school graduate,
• Both he and his mother are open to communication and cooperation,
• Children who both themselves and their mothers volunteer to participate in the research and give verbal and written consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Not between the ages of 9-16,
• Having a chronic or genetic disease other than epilepsy,
• Mentally, visually or hearing impaired,
• Mothers who are not primary school graduates,
• Both he and his mother are not open to communication and cooperation,
• Neither they nor their mothers volunteered to participate in the research,
• Children and mothers without smart phones