Evaluating the Effects of Popular Music on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training

This study aims to analyze short- and long-term effects of musical memory created by using a national popular song on achieving the recommended compression rate and depth and compression-breath rate for nursing students, who received CPR training. In this study, used a popular Turkish song, entitled, 'More Beautiful Than You' and performed by Duman, to create a musical memory to be used as a mental metronome and analyzed short- and long-term effects of using popular national songs on achieving recommended compression rate and depth and compression-breath rate for nursing students, who received CPR training and performed CPR on high-fidelity simulation mannequins for the first time. Students in the intervention group practiced CPR with music. Students in the control group practiced CPR with a standard mannequin. CPR performance of the participants was evaluated just after the CPR training (short-term) and six weeks after the training (long-term).