Music is a widely utilized form of complementary therapy. The interest in studying the
psychiatric patients' attitudes towards the use of music as therapy in psychiatric hospitals will help
enlighten anew way for adjunct medical treatment in their hospitals. Objective: Explore patients'
perception and attitudes towards the use of music as therapy in psychiatric hospitals. Setting: El-
Maamoura Hospital for Psychiatric Medicine. Subjects: The study Subjects comprised 130 in-patients
with psychiatric disorders. Tools: "Attitude towards the Use of Music as Therapy Survey", "Patient's
Perception of Music As Therapy Structured Interview Schedule", and a Socio-Demographic and
Clinical Data Sheet were used as tools for data collection. Results: The main results of this study were
70.8 % of the studied patients perceived that they could use music as therapy and 66.2% of the studied
patients had positive attitude toward music as therapy. Conclusion: It can be concluded that patients
have positive attitude toward music as therapy, in spite of their low knowledge about it.
Recommendations: It is recommended that nurses should encourage their patients to choose the most
appropriate time to listen to music, also, integrate music as therapy into the nursing and medical
curriculum is necessary and psycho-educational programs to develop patients' awareness about music
as therapy are needed.