Music and Colposcopy in Women With Cervical Dysplasia.

Zydolab - Institute of Cytology and Immune Cytochemistry

Status: Completed

Conditions: Uterine Cervical Dysplasia

Treatments: Device: Headphones; Other: No Headphones

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03005795

COLPO-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess the effect of music during colposcopy on women´s anxiety.

Enrollment: 205 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women referred for colposcopy due to cervical abnormalities
• We included women if they attended colposcopy for the first time

Exclusion criteria

• pregnant women
• presence of a language barrier
• known anxiety disorder or depression
• history of conization or other treatments on the cervix uteri
• known oncological disorder
• auditory defect
• cardiovascular disease
• inadequate colposcopy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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205 participants in 2 patient groups

Music and colposcopy

Experimental group

Description:

Women will hear Mozarts symphony Nr. 40 during the colposcopic examination

Treatment:

Device: Headphones

Colposcopy without music

Active Comparator group

Description:

During the colposcopic examination women will not hear music

Treatment:

Other: No Headphones