Music's Effects on Anxiety During Epidural Placement

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Satisfaction; Anxiety

Treatments: Other: No Song; Other: Song "Weightless" by Marconi Union

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03844659

00078958

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of the study is to determine if playing the song "Weightless" by Marconi Union during labor epidural placement, decreases laboring parturient anxiety and improves satisfaction with the experience.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Females ages 18 years and older committed to delivery by the obstetrical team (natural labor or induction of labor)
• English speaking
• Able to give informed consent
• Having an epidural placed Exclusion Criteria
• Patient refusal
• Intrauterine fetal demise
• Imminent delivery
• Existing music use

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The song "Weightless" by Marconi Union will be playing during subjects labor epidural placement.

Treatment:

Other: Song "Weightless" by Marconi Union

Non Intervention Group

Other group

Description:

No song will be played during subjects labor epidural placement.

Treatment:

Other: No Song