The Effect of Music on Procedural Distress During Mobilization in Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

ConditionsPain Stress Anxiety

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age18+

SponsorUniversiteit Antwerpen

About this trial

This intervention study will investigate the effects of music therapy on procedural distress, the overall experience of pain, anxiety, and stress, during the procedure of sitting up in a chair for patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

They are admitted to the ICU

They have a Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) score of +1, 0, or -1

They are able to speak Dutch

Disqualifiers

They are younger than 18 years old

They have a hearing impairment

They are in isolation

They have a cranial dressing or intracranial pressure monitoring

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

Music
Device
The patient can decide the music genre (a standard playlist) and receives a noise-cancelling headphone playing the chosen music during mobilization.

Treatment groups

128 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: MusicExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Group B: No musicNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes