Music During Labor Epidural Placement and Patient Satisfaction

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Conditions studied: Satisfaction

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02734056

Run by

Brigham and Women's Hospital

People needed

100

Starts

2015-10-01

Expected to finish

2016-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 45. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Pregnant women in labor
• Healthy pregnant women in labor requesting epidural labor analgesia
• >30 weeks gestation
• Ages 18 - 45

You may not qualify if…

• 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)

Where it is running

• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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