NCT05374096

Study Exploring the Effect of Music on Pain After Ventral Hernia Surgery

The Effect of Music on Pain in Patients Undergoing Ventral Hernia Repair With Mesh: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 321 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Cleveland Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess whether listening to music during surgery has an effect on pain or anxiety after surgery.

Detailed description

After being informed about the study and potential risks and meeting eligibility criteria, all patients giving written informed consent will be scheduled for their hernia repair surgery. On the day of surgery, patients will be randomized in a double-blind manner (participant and investigator) in a 1:1 ratio to listen to patient-chosen music during their surgery via headphones or just listen to silence via headphones. Pain and anxiety will then be assessed after surgery.

Conditions

• Postoperative Pain, Acute
• Ventral Hernia
• Hernia Abdominal Wall
• Surgery
• Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Patient-Chosen Music	Music played into headphones.
OTHER	Placebo	Silence into headphones.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-13
• Primary completion: 2023-07-15
• Completion: 2023-07-17
• First posted: 2022-05-16
• Last updated: 2023-07-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States