The effectiveness of Quran's sound on happiness of women with cancer

Patients with cancer are stressful and anxious just as they know about their disease, so their mental health would be threatened. The stress is continuing also during the treatment, and many of them turn to sedative drugs. Music therapy is a technique used to reduce the stresses of the patient and is helpful in most cases. In this research, Quran’s sound as a kind of music has been used for patients with cancer in order to investigate its effectiveness on the happiness. The methodology of the research is experimental, and was performed as intervention on 45 women with breast cancer and cervical cancer who were in the first or second step of chemotherapy. They were divided into 3 groups of 15 by random. The first group listened to Quran’s sound in Tartil (intonation) style of JavadPanahi for 30 minutes in 3 steps of chemotherapy. The second group listened to Quran’s sound in Tahdir style of MoatazAghaie in the same way. And the third group was under control and has no intervention during 3 steps. After and before the experiment, oxford happiness questionnaire was filled by respondents. One month after experiment, the questionnaire was filled by patients again for reassessment. The findings show that there is a significant difference between experiment and control groups in terms of happiness variable. But there was no significant difference between 2 groups of Tartil and Tahdir, and both of them increased happiness by the same rate. The results of the research showed that each styles of Quran’s sound with different readers can increase the happiness of patients with cancer. Therefore, Quran’s sound can be used as a soothing method during chemotherapy of patients with cancer.