NCT03231163

Physiological and Perceptual Effects of Music on Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Old Dominion University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of the study is to determine whether music has any effect on resting metabolic rate (RMR), which is the amount of energy expended at rest. There is currently conflicting research on how music affects RMR. One problem with RMR testing is that participants often fall asleep during the test. There can be a 5-10% difference in the metabolic rate between rest and sleep. If no change in RMR is observed, playing music during an RMR test could be a potential strategy to prevent participants from falling asleep. Participants will undergo RMR measurements while listening to no music, relaxing classical music, and self-selected classical music.

Conditions

• Metabolism

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No Music	Participants lie supine on a table while no music is played.
OTHER	Relaxing Classical Music	Participants lie supine on a table while classical music is played.
OTHER	Self-Selected Relaxing Music	Participants lie supine on a table while self-selected relaxing music is played.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-05
• Primary completion: 2017-10-03
• Completion: 2017-10-03
• First posted: 2017-07-27
• Last updated: 2017-12-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States