Music's Effects on Anxiety During Epidural Placement
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
The objective of the study is to determine if playing the song "Weightless" by Marconi Union during labor epidural placement, decreases laboring parturient anxiety and improves satisfaction with the experience.
Condition or Disease | Intervention/Treatment | Phase |
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Study Design
Arms and Interventions
Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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Experimental: Intervention Group The song "Weightless" by Marconi Union will be playing during subjects labor epidural placement. |
Other: Song "Weightless" by Marconi Union
Patients will be randomized to the intervention group (the song "Weightless" by Marconi Union will be playing) during subjects labor epidural placement. The intervention in this study is solely the addition of music.
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Other: Non Intervention Group No song will be played during subjects labor epidural placement. |
Other: No Song
No song will be played during subjects labor epidural placement.
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Mean Score of Anxiety Before Epidural Placement [Immediately prior to procedure]
3 different measures of anxiety prior to the procedure based on the State Trait Anxiety Inventory: 1) Numeric Rating Scale from 0-10 with 0 representing no anxiety and 10 representing worst anxiety possible. 2) Asking patient response to the question "Are you calm" with options scaling from "very much, moderately, somewhat, or not at all". 3) Asking the patient to answer the question "are you relaxed?" with options scaling from "very much, moderately, somewhat, or not at all." "Very much" will be treated as a positive finding and "moderately, somewhat, or not at all" as negative. The short form of the State Trait Anxiety Inventory with these three measures has been shown to be a reliable measure of anxiety. A fourth measure used will be a Visual Analog Scale from 0-100 of overall anxiety with 0 representing no anxiety and 100 representing the worst anxiety possible.
- Mean Score of Anxiety After Epidural Placement [Immediately after procedure]
As soon as the epidural has been placed and appropriate documentation for the procedure is completed, both groups will take the same surveys again.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
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Females ages 18 years and older committed to delivery by the obstetrical team (natural labor or induction of labor)
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English speaking
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Able to give informed consent
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Having an epidural placed Exclusion Criteria
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Patient refusal
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Intrauterine fetal demise
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Imminent delivery
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Existing music use
Contacts and Locations
Locations
Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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1 | Medical University of South Carolina | Charleston | South Carolina | United States | 29425 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Medical University of South Carolina
Investigators
None specified.Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- 00078958