A Study to Evaluate the Impact of Classical Music on Perceived Waiting Time and Satisfaction in Emergency Department Patients (MORAL)

Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Emergency Room

Treatments: Other: no music; Other: recorded music; Other: live music

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06973993

ORBV-CHIR-006

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to evaluate whether classical music in the Emergency waiting room can diminish perception of waiting times. Patients and relatives, after arriving in the ER waiting room will either listen to live classical music, recorded classical music, or no music at all.

Full description

The study was submitted to the ethics committee as an interventional clinical trial; however, they advised that it does not qualify as a clinical trial. The project does not collect health-related information from patients, according to the definition provided by swiss research law, and therefore does not require any authorization. They qualify it as a quality control initiative.

Please advise on how we should register it into clinicaltrials.gov, we might need the ID for publication purpose.

Thank you

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ER department patients waiting for medical assessment and their relatives
• Age ≥ 18 years
• Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Patients in situations of high severity and that pose an immediate significant threat to life or physiologic function.

Trial design

150 participants in 3 patient groups

live music

Description:

All patients and relatives arriving at the ER on a given day will find live music as situation chosen in advance

Treatment:

Other: live music

recorded music

Description:

All patients and relatives arriving at the ER on a given day will find recorded music as situation chosen in advance

Treatment:

Other: recorded music

no music

Description:

All patients and relatives arriving at the ER on a given day will find no music as situation chosen in advance

Treatment:

Other: no music