Music During Non-Stress Testing

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pregnant Women

Treatments: Other: Music intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07299214

KMBU-NST-2025-01

2169 (Ethics decision number) (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Music has direct and indirect positive effects on the mother and fetus during pregnancy and perinatal period. This study was aimed at investigating effects of music played during the Non-Stress Test (NST) procedure on the mother's comfort, vital signs and anxiety.

Enrollment: 173 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women aged 18-45 years
• Completion of at least the 32nd week of gestation
• No pregnancy-related risk factors (e.g., premature rupture of membranes, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes)
• No multiple pregnancy
• Normal blood pressure levels (not ≤80/60 mmHg and not ≥140/90 mmHg)
• Having eaten at least two hours before the NST procedure
• No smoking or alcohol consumption for at least two hours before the NST procedure
• Ability to communicate effectively
• No hearing impairment
• Voluntary participation in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant women with fetal distress
• Cases for whom the physician considered emergency intervention necessary
• Individuals with an impaired NST requiring immediate intervention
• Individuals with a diagnosed psychiatric disorder
• Individuals with hearing impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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173 participants in 2 patient groups

Music Group

Experimental group

Description:

After the pregnant women were positioned, while the NST procedure was implemented they listened to music for 20-30 minutes. The pregnant women listened to the music on an MP3 player during the application. The duration of the music recorded on the MP3 player was 30 minutes. The music played to the pregnant women was selected by the researchers in accordance with the definition of relaxing music made in the literature. Before the music selection, the researchers communicated with the TÜMATA (Turkish acronym for the "Research and Promotion of Turkish Music Association). After the meeting held with the association, it was decided to use the 'Acemaşiran' (a musical mode in traditional Turkish music). In the study, music prepared by the TÜMATA in the Acemaşiran mode was played. It is stated that Acemaşiran mode helps balance the body, helps the listener relax, facilitates birth, helps correct the wrong position of the fetus in the womb, and has a pain and spasm relieving effect

Treatment:

Other: Music intervention

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Pregnant women were not subjected to any intervention during the NST procedure.