Dosing Music for Anxiety Reduction in Parturients

Tufts University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Patient-preferred music selections; Other: Mozart selections

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05966766

00003958

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a clinical study that aims to determine the effective dose of music listening duration that is required to reduce anxiety in patients awaiting scheduled cesarean section. It will also compare types of music to accomplish this goal, both of which have been shown effective in prior studies. Methods will involve enrolling and playing music for patients awaiting scheduled C-section, and scoring their anxiety with pre- and post-music questionnaires. Music duration for each subject will be predetermined, and analysis of response will be performed to determine the effective dose 95%, or dose at which 95% of subjects should have a positive response.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 years or older
• Planning on scheduled cesarean section or non-emergent unscheduled cesarean section
• Able to provide informed consent
• American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) physical status score of II-III

Exclusion criteria

• Patient refusal
• Impaired hearing
• Patient is taking at least one anxiolytic medication daily at baseline
• No anxiety (a score of 0, on a scale of 0-10, of pre-music exposure anxiety) after consent is given
• ASA IV or higher

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Mozart

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects in this arm will listen to music from a list of pre-selected pieces by Mozart that have been previously shown to have beneficial effects on anxiety.

Treatment:

Other: Mozart selections

Patient preference

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects in this arm will listen to music from a list of pre-selected pieces of their own choosing.

Treatment:

Other: Patient-preferred music selections