Effect of Music on Pain and Anxiety in Chronic Pain Patients Undergoing Lumbar Interventional Procedures.

Penn State Health

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Chronic Pain; Anxiety

Treatments: Other: No Music; Other: Music Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04924244

16112

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate, subjectively and objectively, whether playing music during procedures for treatment of chronic lower back pain has an effect on patients' anxiety and pain. The investigators hypothesize that playing music will result in reduced patient reported anxiety and pain scores and less variation from baseline of vital signs versus patients in the control group without music therapy. This is a pilot study.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age greater than or equal to 18
2. Female or male
3. Patients undergoing standard of care lumbar spinal interventional procedures including: epidural steroid injections, facet injections, medial branch blocks

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients who cannot consent for themselves, including cognitively impaired patients.
2. Non-English speaking patients
3. Patients taking beta blocker medication
4. Patients that have a pacer and have a set rate
5. Patients with self-reported hearing problems or with hearing aids

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

No Music

Active Comparator group

Description:

No music will be played during the subject's standard of care lumbar spinal interventional procedure (including: epidural steroid injections, facet injections, medial branch blocks).

Treatment:

Other: No Music

Music Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Music of the subject's preferred genre will be played during the subject's standard of care lumbar spinal interventional procedure (including: epidural steroid injections, facet injections, medial branch blocks).

Treatment:

Other: Music Therapy