NCT03755011

White Noise to Improve Sleep in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU): a Pilot and Feasibility Study

White Noise to Improve Sleep in the MICU: a Pilot and Feasibility Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 7 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A feasibility study to evaluate the use of white noise to improve sleeping conditions in an ICU setting.

Detailed description

The ICU is full of alarms and critically ill patients, so it is no surprise that sleep is very much fragmented and poor in this setting, as documented in numerous studies. White noise is a simple intervention that has been shown to improve sleep, including in the ICU setting. The aim is to conduct a pilot trial evaluating the feasibility of providing white noise to patients in the ICU at night to help improve sleep. The plan to measure feasibility metrics including patient acceptance, patient tolerance, and intervention fidelity; also to seek feedback from patients, nurses, and providers. Secondly is to evaluate the benefits of providing white noise at night in the ICU on sleep as measured by actigraphy and Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaires and total room sound.

Conditions

• Sleep Deprivation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	white noise	Patients in the interventional arm will have white noise (through in-room workstations- on-wheels and publicly-available white noise websites) playing overnight at a standardized volume to be determined.
BEHAVIORAL	usual care	normal ICU activity noise

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-27
• Primary completion: 2019-03-15
• Completion: 2019-03-15
• First posted: 2018-11-27
• Last updated: 2019-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States