NCT00959829

Use of Music and Voice Stimulus on Coma Patients

Use of Music and Vocal Stimulus in Patients in Coma State - Relations Between Auditory Stimulus, Vital Signs, Face Expression and Glasgow Coma Scale or Ramsay Scale

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objectives: (1) To check music and voice message influence on vital signs and facial expressions of patients in physiological or induced comas; (2) To connect the existence of patient's responsiveness with the Glasgow Coma Scale or with the Ramsay Sedation Scale. Method: This was a randomized controlled clinical trial with 30 patients, from two Intensive Care Units, being divided in 2 groups (control and experimental). Their relatives recorded a voice message and chose a song according to the patient's preference. The patients were submitted to 3 sessions for 3 consecutive days.

Detailed description

The relatives elaborated a voice recorded message and choose a music according to the patient preference, which were recorded in the same Compact Disc. Two identical CD's were made at the same recorded time; one with and another one without stimulus in order to make the random division of the groups. The patients were evaluated according to one of the Scales; they used earphones. During the sessions, the data relating to the vital signs and the face expression were recorded in a data collection instrument.

Conditions

• Coma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music and message	Experimental group: music and message Control group: silence

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-02-01
• Primary completion: 2005-03-01
• Completion: 2005-09-01
• First posted: 2009-08-17
• Last updated: 2010-06-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil