Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
Conditions
Interventions
Control Intervention1: To evaluate whether reduction of stressful ICU noise during night time has some effect on patientâ??s anxiety levels over the course of their stay in ICU: This study seeks to ex
Sponsors
Rouble Jalota
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Eligible patients are any patients in ICU who could interact even intermittently in order to respond to questions about their feelings and emotions , opened their eyes in response to hearing their name or spontaneously or are awake , understand Hindi and have sufficient corrected vision to see Faces scale. These patients must be admitted in ICU for atleast 48 hours.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients having: a)severe to profound hearing loss. b)head or oromaxillofacial trauma. c)Baseline use of hearing aids. d)any other contradiction to use of ear plugs or headphones.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Study seeks to examine the effects of overnight noise reduction in ICU patients. Subjects will randomly be placed in two groups. receiving usual care ( control group) Standard nose ablating headphones applied from 11pm to 6am nightly for atleast four nights or until ICU discharge. In morning patients will be asked to grade their anxiety as shown in Faces Anxiety Scale. Assessment will be done for four days of their stay in ICU or until they are transfered to their respective wards. Timepoint: Study seeks to examine the effects of overnight noise reduction in ICU patients. Subjects will randomly be placed in two groups. receiving usual care ( control group) Standard nose ablating headphones applied from 11pm to 6am nightly for atleast four nights or until ICU discharge. In morning patients will be asked to grade their anxiety as shown in Faces Anxiety Scale. Assessment will be done for four days of their stay in ICU or until they are transfered to their respective wards. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary: Effect on the requirement of sedatives in ICU during the course of their stay. Timepoint: Secondary: Effect on the requirement of sedatives in ICU during the course of their stay.This will be viewed for atleast for days of their ICU stay that whether the requirement of sedatives increase or decrease on putting noise ablating headphones during night time. | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactDr M Parvez Khan
King George Medical University
Outcome results
None listed