Exercise With Music for ICU Survivors

University of Miami

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Illness; Intensive Care Unit Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise with Music; Behavioral: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03885687

20180508

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will test whether the individualized music-enhanced exercise playlist (Exercise with Music intervention) can prevent further physical and psychological deterioration and motivate ICU survivors to more actively participate in their rehabilitation.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age ≥ 18 years old
• length of ICU stay >5 days (excludes patients with less comorbidity)
• within 72 hours of ICU discharge (standardizes time to begin intervention)
• ability to independently move upper and lower extremities (required to participate in intervention)
• ability to speak English or Spanish

Exclusion criteria

• documented mental incompetence
• dependent status pre-ICU admission (KATZ, activity daily living scale)
• evidence of delirium using the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)
• hearing impairment
• documented "comfort measures only" in the electronic medical record
• prior residence in a long-term care facility
• unstable hemodynamics

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

26 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise with Music Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The Exercise with Music intervention is a recorded exercise playlist, which is tailored to a patient's individual physical abilities and music choices.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise with Music

Active Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The active control group will receive exercise brochure and will be advised to exercise at least twice daily.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise