Music Therapy for Women, Delivered Via Cesarean Section

Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University (KSU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cesarean Section; Postpartum Period

Treatments: Behavioral: Music Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04111575

19.04.2017/No:7-35

Details and patient eligibility

About

Musical therapy is a type of therapy which is performed under a regular method by adjusting the physiological and psychological effects of musical tones and melodies in accordance with various situations. Therefore, the study was carried out as a randomized controlled trial in order to evaluate the effect of music therapy on the level of pain and anxiety in the postpartum period in women who delivered via cesarean section.

Full description

Objectives: The study was carried out in order to determine the effect of music therapy on the level of postpartum pain and anxiety in women who delivered via cesarean section.

Design, setting and subjects: The randomized controlled trial was conducted on 126 women who delivered via cesarean section in a tertiary hospital. The subjects were allocated to three groups (n=42 each) Interventions: In the experimental group 1 (once a day) and group 2 (twice a day) were made to listen to music for 30 minutes for two consecutive days. The control group routine care of 30 min a day in bed rest. The Personal Information Form, Visual Analog Scale, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were administered to participants. In the analysis of the data, one-way ANOVA, paired t-test, Kruskal Wallis-H and Wilcoxon tests were used.

Main outcome measures: State anxiety level and pain level.

Enrollment: 126 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 49 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being at the age of 18 and above,
• being healthy,
• having given a live birth,
• having no hearing impairment,
• complication not having developed either in the mother or the baby

Exclusion criteria

• being at the age of 17 and below,
• being unhealthy,
• having given a stillbirth,
• having hearing impairment,
• complication having developed either in the mother or the baby

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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126 participants in 3 patient groups

music therapy group 1

Experimental group

Description:

The mothers in the experimental group 1 received music therapy for 30 minutes a day.They listened music for two consecutive days, considering the first day after the C-section as the beginning day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Music Therapy

music therapy group 2

Experimental group

Description:

The mothers in the experimental group 1 received music therapy for 30 minutes twice a day. They listened music for two consecutive days, considering the first day after the C-section as the beginning day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Music Therapy

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

the control group were made to rest in bed for 30 minutes a day for two consecutive days, considering the first day after the C-section as the beginning day.