NCT04722614

Music and Essential Oil in Agitation

The Effect of Music and Essential Oil on Agitation in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 123 (actual)
• Sponsor: Alexandria University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to assess the effect of using music and essential oil on agitation in mechanically ventilated patients. Listening to classical relaxation music, and inhalation to bergamot oil will be used in this study.

Detailed description

Agitation in critically ill patients is a phenomenon that can compromise patient safety and assistance during intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalizations. This trial will be conducted in five general intensive care unit. One hundred and twenty patients will be enrolled in this study divided into three equal groups (40 patients in each group). Group A is the control group. Group B is music group. Group C is essential oil group. Agitated mechanically ventilated patients will be randomly assigned to one of the three groups. Each group will be subjected to its specific intervention and they will be monitored for seven days. Agitation score and frequency outcome will be assessed at the end of the study.

Conditions

• Agitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music	Classic music hearing at amplitude approximately 60-80 dB using MP3 player connected to headphone with noise canceling property
OTHER	Essential oil	Bergamot oil inhalation through a piece of cotton gauze (2 × 2 cm square shape) with 0.5 cc of bergamot oil. It will be attached to the collar of the patient's clothes gown, approximately 15 cm below their nose.
OTHER	Control	The routine intensive care unit sedation protocol

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-11
• Primary completion: 2021-06-22
• Completion: 2022-07-20
• First posted: 2021-01-25
• Last updated: 2022-07-25

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Egypt