Music Therapy With Intubated and Sedated Pediatric Patients

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Status: Completed

Conditions: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Live Music Therapy; Behavioral: Recorded Music Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03629145

MUSIC02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is a randomized controlled trial of pediatric patients ages birth to two years of age who are mechanically ventilated and sedated as a result of a respiratory virus. The experimental group will receive twenty minutes of live, preferred music with a board-certified music therapist and the control group will receive twenty minutes of recorded music, also preferred, both interventions conducted at bedside. Caregivers will take a pre and post survey.

Full description

Data for heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure will be taken for both control and experimental conditions prior to intervention, immediately following intervention, thirty minutes post, and sixty minutes post intervention. Caregivers will take the Parental Belief Scale for Hospitalized Children prior to intervention and 60 minutes poster intervention.

Enrollment: 33 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 2 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with respiratory syntactical virus, pneumonia, rhino, corona, bronchiolitis, or flu
• mechanically ventilated
• sedated
• Patients with underlying diagnosis accepted unless listed below
• Patients must have a primary caregiver present

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are oscillating
• have a previous diagnosis of severe or profoundly deaf
• have a suspicion of child abuse
• in custody of the state.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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33 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Live Music Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Twenty minutes of live, preferred music played on guitar and voice

Treatment:

Behavioral: Live Music Therapy

Recorded Music

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Twenty minutes of recorded music, also on guitar and voice, previously recorded by investigator

Treatment:

Behavioral: Recorded Music Therapy