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The BARBER Trial: Music and Binaural Beats During Prostate Biopsy

NCT07692893 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 221

Last updated 2026-07-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial was to learn whether listening to classical music or binaural beats could reduce anxiety and pain in adult men undergoing prostate biopsy.

The main questions it aimed to answer were:

* Does listening to classical music reduce anxiety and pain during prostate biopsy compared with no music?
* Does listening to classical music with binaural beats reduce anxiety and pain during prostate biopsy compared with classical music alone or no music?

Researchers compared three groups of participants: one group listened to classical music, one group listened to the same music with binaural beats, and one group did not listen to music.

Participants were asked to complete anxiety questionnaires before and after the biopsy. They also rated their pain after the procedure, and blood pressure and heart rate were recorded before and after the biopsy.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Binaural beats auditory intervention

Participants listened to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings embedded with a 6-Hz binaural beat during the prostate biopsy procedure. The binaural beat was generated by presenting a 384-Hz tone to the right ear and a 378-Hz tone to the left ear. The audio track was delivered through wireless stereo headphones.

BEHAVIORAL

Classical music auditory intervention

Participants listened to Samuel Barber's \*Adagio for Strings\* during the prostate biopsy procedure. The same musical track used in the binaural beats group was delivered without embedded binaural beats through wireless stereo headphones.

BEHAVIORAL

No Music Group

Participants underwent the prostate biopsy procedure without listening to music or binaural beats.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Trieste

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-01-01
Primary Completion
2025-06-30
Completion
2025-06-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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