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The Effect of Jazz on Postoperative Pain and Stress in Patients Undergoing Elective Hysterectomy

NCT01834027 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2016-04-15

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of music on patients after surgery in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU). For many patients, surgery creates significant emotional stress and anxiety which can include discomfort or pain. Music therapy has proven to be a useful adjuvant in various inpatient and outpatient settings by providing a relaxing effect that decreases heart rate, blood pressure, and hormonal measures of stress. It has been shown that classical music can cause physiological and psychological differences in patient outcomes, but few studies have looked specifically at effects of jazz music. Some have argued that jazz may be too involved to provide the same relaxed state as classical music, but this may be due in part to the type of jazz played for the patient. It is our hypothesis that slow jazz music by artists including Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Dave Brubeck, etc. will reduce measures of stress and anxiety in patients in the PACU following surgery for hysterectomy (laparoscopic or robotic) to a greater extent than the control group. Jazz music or "no music" will be played through headphones to participants in the study post-surgically while they are in the PACU and measures of stress, anxiety, and pain will be monitored.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Jazz music

Jazz music from artists including Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Dave Brubeck, etc. will be played through headphones for post-surgical hysterectomy patients while they are in the post anesthesia care unit.

BEHAVIORAL

No music

In this group no music will be played in PACU

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sonia Vaida, MD · Penn State University

  • Jansie Prozesky, MD · Penn State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2014-01-31
Completion
2014-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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