NCT01284075

The Effect of Guided Imagery and Music Therapy on Post-Operative Recovery After Gynecological Oncology Surgery

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Minnesota · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This pilot study will be a prospective, randomized trial which will take place at the University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC). Eligible patients will be identified at the time of their first clinic visit. If selected to be involved in the study, the patients will be randomized to one of three different groups: a Guided Imagery and Music therapy group (GIMT) or one of two control groups.

Detailed description

The GIMT group will undergo a standardized regimen of peri-operative guided imagery and music therapy guided by CDs. As there are no studies which discuss whether the act of listening to any therapy will affect outcomes, we will also explore whether white noise can affect outcomes as well. Therefore, one control group (WN) will abide by the same regimen and will listen to a CD with white noise; the other control group (CP) will have no intervention at all and will follow our current peri-operative procedures.

Conditions

• Ovarian Cancer
• Uterine Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Guided imagery and music therapy	Participants will undergo a standardized regimen of peri-operative guided imagery and music therapy guided by CDs (compact disc). The peri-operative regimen will include: listening to the CD while in the pre-operative holding area, listening to the CD during the procedure; listening to the CD after the procedure beginning on the evening of post-operative day (POD)#0 and continuing twice a day until POD#3.
BEHAVIORAL	White Noise	Control group (WN) will listen to a CD with white noise. Participants' regimen will include: listening to the CD while in the pre-operative holding area, listening to the CD during the procedure; listening to the CD after the procedure beginning on the evening of post-operative day (POD)#0 and continuing twice a day until POD#3.
OTHER	No intervention	Control group (CP) will have no intervention at all and will follow our current peri-operative procedures.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2011-01-26
• Last updated: 2014-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States