Music Therapy, Pain, Postoperative
Conditions
Brief summary
This will be a prospective, randomized controlled trial with patients randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group. The experimental group will be exposed to the independent variable (IV) and the control group will not be exposed to the IV. The IV will be a music therapist- designed listening program during surgery. A total of 60 patients will be consecutively enrolled and undergo block randomization to either a music listening group or a control group (no music). Trained medical research personnel will assist with various parts of the study and will be defined as those individuals who have completed and are up-to-date on the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) training. These individuals will consist of a board certified music therapist, practicing ophthalmologists, and physicians-in-training.
Detailed description
This prospective trial will block randomize a consecutive cohort of patients undergoing routine vitrectomy surgery at an university hospital to a designed listening program during surgery or to nothing in order to determine whether music listening during surgery can measurably result in decreased patient pain assessed by the Wong-Baker Faces Pain scale. Secondary outcome measures will be blood pressure, need for anxiety medication, postoperative pain medication, and patient overall experience.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALvitrectomy with music listening
Those randomized to music listening will be exposed to a standardized playlist of previously validated relaxation music.
Sponsors
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Inclusion criteria will consist of patients already scheduled for elective vitrectomy surgery at a tertiary academic university hospital.
Exclusion criteria
*
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| post-operative pain | during post-operative recovery time, approximately 2 hours | post-operative pain as measured by the Wong-Baker Faces pain scale, 0 is no pain, 10 is the worst pain |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| patient satisfaction | during postoperative recovery time, approximately 2 hours | patient satisfaction as measured by a modified version of the The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey |
| anti-anxiety medication | start to finish of surgery, approximately 1.5 hours | amount of anti-anxiety medication administered during surgery |
| pain médication | start to finish of surgery, approximately 1.5 hours | amount of pain medication administered during surgery |
| blood pressure | start to finish of surgery, approximately 1.5 hours | blood pressure during the surgical procedure |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed