Recruiting

Music Interventions

Sponsor:

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Code:

NCT05472909

Conditions

Anxiety

Surgery

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Standardized Relaxation Music

Personal Choice of Music

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this study is to examine if patients have a lower anxiety level during wide awake hand surgery while listening to their choice of music vs standardized relaxation music. Patients who are planning to undergo wide awake (local anesthetic only hand surgery) and agree to participate will be randomized to either a music intervention where they listen to their choice of music genre or standardized relaxation music during their time in the operating room. 170 participants will be enrolled and can expect to be on study for 2 weeks.

Conditions

Anxiety

Surgery

Study ID

NCT05472909

Start date

Jul, 2026

Status verified date

Oct, 2025

Completion date

Jul, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adult (18 years of age or older) patients
  • Undergoing Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT) hand surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients under the age of 18
  • Patients unable to consent for themselves
  • Patients unwilling to consent
  • Non-English speaking patients
  • Patients with significant hearing impairment not able to be corrected with assistive devices

Study Design

Enrollment

170 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Standardized Relaxation Music

active comparator: Personal Choice of Music

Interventions

Standardized Relaxation Music

Participants listen to standardized relaxation music during surgery.

Personal Choice of Music

Participants listen to their preferred music during surgery.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in Visual Analog Scale-Anxiety (VAS-A) Score [ Time Frame: day 0 post-operative, up to day 14 ]
  • Change in State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) Score [ Time Frame: day 0 post-operative, up to day 14 ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Katie Schjei

608-234-6719Schjei@ortho.wisc.edu

Locations

University of Wisconsin

Recruiting

Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53705

More Information

Sponsor

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Last update posted

Apr 30, 2026

Last verified

Oct, 2025

Keywords

  • wide-awake hand surgery
  • music intervention
  • patient care

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Wisconsin, Madison on 2026-04-30.