The purpose of the study is to determine whether Music Therapy interventions can be used as supportive therapy for patients undergoing weaning from mechanical ventilation. The music will support the procedure by serving as a stimulus for relaxation and/or pain and anxiety management.Music used is varied according to subject's preferences.
Music therapy interventions will be used as supportive therapy for patients undergoing weaning from mechanical ventilation. The music will support the procedure by serving as a stimulus for relaxation and/or pain and anxiety management. The intervention will consist of 40 - 50 minutes of active music therapy and improvisation in which the music is used as a distraction from the hospital setting and the procedure taking place. The intervention will end with 5 to 10 minutes of discussion of music activities/selections to be used between music therapy sessions. The intervention is individualized and can be modified accordingly to the subject's preferences.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
77
Music Therapy
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York, United States
Evaluate the efficacy of music therapy interventions in assisting patient to be liberated from mechanical ventilation more quickly than control subjects.
Time frame: prospective
Exploratory hypotheses will investigate decreased anxiety measured by -physiologic measures
Time frame: prospective
- decreased use of anxiolytic, antidepressant and antipsychotic agents.
Time frame: prospective
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