The Effect of Music on Anxiety in the Appointment Period

Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, E.P.E.

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Listening to zen music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06590363

147-2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to learn if musical intervention can reduce anxiety on patients and doctors in the appointment period. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Can music reduce the psychological symptoms of anxiety at the end of the appointment? Can music reduce heart rate and blood pressure at the end of the appointment?

Researchers will compare if the presence of zen music during the appointment influences anxiety levels.

Participants in the intervention group will listen to music during the appointment. Those in the control group will not have music in the office during the appointment.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• scheduled appointment;
• agree to participate in the clinical trial.

Exclusion criteria

• 17 years or younger;
• deaf;
• illiterate.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Music

Experimental group

Description:

Corresponded to patients and doctors subjected to the period of listening to zen music in the appointment.

Treatment:

Other: Listening to zen music

Non-Music

No Intervention group

Description:

Corresponded to patients and doctors not subjected to the period of listening to zen music.