N/A
Completed N=100
Music During Labor Epidural Placement and Patient Satisfaction
Satisfaction
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02734056 ↗
Enrolled (actual)
100
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Mar 2017
Primary outcomePrimary: Anxiety — 2.9; 1.4 NRS
Summary
Patient satisfaction is becoming increasingly important to hospital administrators as a metric for quality of patient care services because it is now being linked to reimbursements (Maher 2015). Patient satisfaction is a complex problem, and may be affected by a variety of factors. A recent study found that higher patient satisfaction was associated with patients who received music therapy during their hospital stay (Mandel 2014). Given that music may positively affect patient satisfaction, we are designing a study to examine the effects of patient-preferred music on patient satisfaction in women undergoing labor epidural placement.
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Anxiety |
2.9; 1.4 | — |
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Pregnant women in labor
- Healthy pregnant women in labor requesting epidural labor analgesia
- >30 weeks gestation
- Ages 18 - 45
Exclusion Criteria
- Any patient who refuses
- Women with impaired decision-making capacity
- Patients who are deaf or extremely hard of hearing (if patients wear a hearing aid and can hear with it, then patients are still eligible to be in the study)
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02734056). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication. Informational only — not medical advice.