Recruiting

Music

Sponsor:

Tufts Medical Center

Code:

NCT06969105

Conditions

Anxiety

Pain

Patient Satisfaction

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Female

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Music

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if music use affects anxiety or pain levels in parturients admitted to labor and delivery. It will also learn about the effect of music use on patient satisfaction. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does music use affect anxiety levels in parturients admitted to labor and delivery? Does music use affect pain levels in parturients admitted to labor and delivery? Does music use affect patient satisfaction in parturients admitted to labor and delivery?

Researchers will compare music to a control (no music) to see if music affects anxiety levels in parturients admitted to labor and delivery.

Participants will:

Listen to music or listen to no music for a 10 minute duration in the labor and delivery unit.

Answer questions about anxiety and pain levels at a few different timepoints. Have information collected from medical charts (vital signs and cervical dilation).

Rate their satisfaction with care.

Conditions

Anxiety

Pain

Patient Satisfaction

Study ID

NCT06969105

Start date

May 30, 2025

Status verified date

Apr, 2026

Completion date

May, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

May, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Female

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age: 18 years or older
  • Laboring parturients or those scheduled for an induction of labor
  • Able to provide informed consent
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status rating of II-III

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patient refusal
  • Impaired hearing
  • Patient is taking at least one anxiolytic medication daily at baseline
  • Intrauterine fetal demise
  • Severe psychiatric disorder

Study Design

Enrollment

106 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Music Group

Subjects randomized to this arm will listen to music for a 10 minute duration.

no intervention: Control Group

Subjects randomized to this arm will not listen to music for a 10 minute duration.

Interventions

Music

Prior to randomization, all participants will pre-select their preferred music genre. If randomized to the music group, their preferred music genre will be played for a 10 minute duration.

Primary outcome measure

  • Anxiety [ Time Frame: Baseline and 0 hours post-intervention ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Sophia Struzziero, Medical Student

6178331209sophia.struzziero@tufts.edu

Locations

Tufts Medical Center

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02111

Contacts

Dan Drzymalski, Medical Doctor

617-913-8168ddrzymalski@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

More Information

Sponsor

Tufts Medical Center

Last update posted

May 1, 2026

Last verified

Apr, 2026

Keywords

  • music
  • labor and delivery
  • parturients
  • anxiety
  • analgesia
  • anesthesia
  • pain
  • epidural

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Tufts Medical Center on 2026-05-01.