Investigation of Pain and Anxiety During Electrodiagnostic Examination Using Self-selected Music

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety; Pain

Treatments: Other: self-selected music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01531400

cgmhpmr001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesized that self-selected music played during electrodiagnosis is effective in relieving the discomfort caused by the procedures.

Enrollment: 61 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Investigators recruited volunteer patient participants from patients referred to the electrodiagnosis laboratory of Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in a medical center using convenient sampling.

The inclusion criterion is:

• adult patient with working diagnosis of possible neurological disorder and
• is referred for both nerve conduction study and needle electromyography

Exclusion criteria

The exclusion criteria are:

• conscious disturbances,
• cognitive impairment, or
• language dysfunction.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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61 participants in 2 patient groups

music

Experimental group

Description:

Investigators played self-selected background music in the music group

Treatment:

Other: self-selected music

no music (control)

No Intervention group

Description:

Investigators played no music in the music group