Patient Satisfaction During Cesarean Delivery

Geisinger Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Satisfaction

Treatments: Behavioral: Music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06539754

2024-0158

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this interventional study is to determine whether the option to listen to music during cesarean delivery increases the participants satisfaction. Participants and their support person will be asked to fill out a short survey and mark their satisfaction on a visual analog scale. Vital signs will be recorded during their procedure.

Full description

Currently, our institution does not routinely offer music during cesarean delivery. The goal of this study would be to determine whether the option to listen to music improves patient satisfaction. Also, the study would examine support person satisfaction and changes in maternal vital signs from prior to entering the operating room as compared to prior to exiting the operating room in a sample of patients. If positive satisfaction results are noted in those randomized to the music arm, this would be a low-cost intervention that providers could utilize to increase patient satisfaction during surgery.

This will be a prospective randomized controlled trial to determine whether the option of music being played in the operating room can impact the experience for the patient. Subjects will be randomized via central computer-generated randomization 1:1 to either have music played during their procedure or no music played during their procedure. A per protocol analysis will be performed.

Enrollment: 61 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Singleton pregnancy
• Second or third cesarean delivery
• Scheduled cesarean delivery at Geisinger Medical Center
• Able and willing to provide consent
• English speaking
• Greater than or equal to 37 weeks' gestation

Exclusion criteria

• Fetal anomaly
• Multifetal gestation
• Hearing loss requiring a sign interpreter or hearing aids
• Planned general anesthesia
• Intrauterine fetal demise
• Participants that present in labor or require urgent/emergent cesarean delivery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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61 participants in 2 patient groups

No music

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants who undergo cesarean delivery will not have music available to listen to during the procedure.

Music

Experimental group

Description:

Participants who undergo cesarean delivery will have music of their choice played through bone conduction headphones.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Music