Effects of patient-directed music intervention on anxiety and sedative exposure in critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilatory support: a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Alternatives to sedative medications, such as music, may alleviate the anxiety associated with ventilatory support.

Objective

To test whether listening to self-initiated patient-directed music (PDM) can reduce anxiety and sedative exposure during ventilatory support in critically ill patients.

Design, setting, and patients

Randomized clinical trial that enrolled 373 patients from 12 intensive care units (ICUs) at 5 hospitals in the Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, area receiving acute mechanical ventilatory support for respiratory failure between September 2006 and March 2011. Of the patients included in the study, 86% were white, 52% were female, and the mean (SD) age was 59 (14) years. The patients had a mean (SD) Acute Physiology, Age and Chronic Health E

SUBMITTER: Chlan LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3683448 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature