Optimizing water fountain as community based therapy for better health continuance – Preliminary Study
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Background: The healing aspects of natural sounds therapy including water sound are beginning to get a lot of interest in the medical fields. Numerous studies conducted on the value of natural sounds as a therapy for various psychological treatments. Objective: to observe the influence of water fountain melodies on anxiety level among the experimental groups before undergoing dental chec kup and to compare the effect of different water fountain melodies in reducing anxiety level by measuring the changes of brainwave signals. Methods: 4 types of water fountain melodies have been selected from 100 created melodies for the purpose of lab test. In this preliminary study we analyzed Electroencephalograph (EEG) data of 12 subjects. Volunteers divided into 4 experimental groups each group listen to one type of melody and one control group with no melody. Results: statistical analysis showed that Melody 2 has the first ranking which means that Melody 2 give the most effectiveness to brain in reducing anxiety. Conclusion: Melody intervention may has noticeable effectiveness on the brain in reducing anxiety than no melody and different melodies may have different effectiveness.
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