Duration of Music Interventions and Pain Tolerance (DOMINANT)

Erasmus University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Acute

Treatments: Other: Listening to music for 5 minutes; Other: Listening to music for 20 minutes; Other: Listening to music for 1 minute; Other: Not listening to music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06286137

NL82922.078.22

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will investigate the effect of different durations of music interventions (1, 5 and 20 minutes of music) on pain tolerance.

Full description

Music interventions reduce perioperative pain and anxiety. However, it is yet unclear how long music needs to be presented in order to have an effect. Therefore, the investigators would like to propose a pilot randomized controlled trial in order to investigate the optimal duration of musical interventions. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of different durations of music interventions on pain tolerance (expressed in amperage). Secondary objectives are to investigate the effects of music duration on heart rate variability (expressed in milliseconds) and subjective measurements of emotions, anxiety and pain. Healthy volunteers (age ≥18 years) will be included, and the study will take place at the outpatient clinic of the Center of Pain Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 64 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between 18 and 64 years of age
• Sufficient knowledge of the Dutch language to understand the study documents (in the judgement of the attending physician or researcher)
• Provision of written informed consent by subject

Exclusion criteria

• Significant hearing impairment
• Current complaints of tinnitus
• Current use of analgesic medication
• Presence of acute or chronic pain
• History of cardiac disease or arrhythmias
• Current treatment by a medical specialist or general practitioner
• Professional musician or singer (practicing in average >1 hour each day)
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 4 patient groups

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will be seated for 20 minutes without doing anything else, and not listen to music.

Treatment:

Other: Not listening to music

1 minute music group

Experimental group

Description:

The 1 minute music group will be seated for 19 minutes without doing anything else, and listen to music for 1 minute.

Treatment:

Other: Listening to music for 1 minute

5 minutes music group

Experimental group

Description:

The 5 minutes music group will be seated for 15 minutes without doing anything else, and listen to music for 5 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Listening to music for 5 minutes

20 minutes music group

Experimental group

Description:

The 20 minutes music group will listen to music for 20 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Listening to music for 20 minutes