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

NCT ID: NCT06300814

Last Updated: 2025-08-17

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 45 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-03-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-03-26

Brief Summary

This study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental study with a pretest-posttest design to determine the effect of parental supervision and video-guided progressive relaxation exercise (PRE) and music recital on sleep, quality of life and emotional states in children with epilepsy aged 9-16 years. The main questions it aims to answer are as follows:

According to the evaluation of children with epilepsy, does the progressive relaxation exercise applied to children have an effect on sleep, quality of life and emotional states? According to the evaluation of children with epilepsy, does music recital applied to children have an effect on sleep quality of life and emotional states? The study consisted of 45 children (15 children in the progressive relaxation exercise group, 15 children in the music recital group and 15 children in the control group). Ethics committee approval, permission from the institutions and informed consent of the children were obtained for the conduct of the study. A value of p<0.05 was considered statistically significant in data analysis.

Detailed Description

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.

Conditions

Epilepsy in Children

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Progressive relaxation exercise group

15 children aged 9-16 years who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Progressive relaxation exercise group

Intervention Type: OTHER

A video containing the progressive relaxation exercise was sent to the phones of the mothers of children diagnosed with epilepsy in the intervention group to whom progressive relaxation exercise would be applied, and the children applied progressive relaxation exercise (15 minutes of progressive relaxation exercise before bedtime for a total of 4 weeks, 5 days a week).

Music recital group

15 children aged 9-16 years who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Music recital group

Intervention Type: OTHER

The link of the music recital (link) was sent to the phones of the mothers of children diagnosed with epilepsy in the intervention group, where the music concert will be applied, and the children listened to it (music concert was applied for 15 minutes before going to bed, 5 days a week for a total of 4 weeks).

Control group

15 children aged 9-16 years who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Progressive relaxation exercise group

A video containing the progressive relaxation exercise was sent to the phones of the mothers of children diagnosed with epilepsy in the intervention group to whom progressive relaxation exercise would be applied, and the children applied progressive relaxation exercise (15 minutes of progressive relaxation exercise before bedtime for a total of 4 weeks, 5 days a week).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Music recital group

The link of the music recital (link) was sent to the phones of the mothers of children diagnosed with epilepsy in the intervention group, where the music concert will be applied, and the children listened to it (music concert was applied for 15 minutes before going to bed, 5 days a week for a total of 4 weeks).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 9 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

TC Erciyes University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Emre Usta

Research Assistant

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Emre Usta

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

TC Erciyes University

Locations

Erciyes University

Kayseri, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

ERU-HEM-EU-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id