NCT06286137

Duration of Music Interventions and Pain Tolerance (DOMINANT)

Duration of Music Interventions and PAiN Tolerance in Healthy Individuals: the DOMINANT Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Erasmus Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will investigate the effect of different durations of music interventions (1, 5 and 20 minutes of music) on pain tolerance.

Detailed description

Music interventions reduce perioperative pain and anxiety. However, it is yet unclear how long music needs to be presented in order to have an effect. Therefore, the investigators would like to propose a pilot randomized controlled trial in order to investigate the optimal duration of musical interventions. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of different durations of music interventions on pain tolerance (expressed in amperage). Secondary objectives are to investigate the effects of music duration on heart rate variability (expressed in milliseconds) and subjective measurements of emotions, anxiety and pain. Healthy volunteers (age ≥18 years) will be included, and the study will take place at the outpatient clinic of the Center of Pain Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam.

Conditions

• Pain, Acute

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Listening to music for 1 minute	Participants will be instructed to make a 20-minute playlist with their own preferred music, using a tablet and a music listening app. That playlist will then be presented on shuffle mode for 1 minute through headphones provided by the hospital. Volume can be selected by the participants. However, in order to prevent hearing loss the volume cannot exceed 80 decibels. The 19 minutes before the 1 minute music listening intervention, participants will be instructed to remain seated and are not allowed to do anything else (for example using their phones).
OTHER	Listening to music for 5 minutes	Participants will be instructed to make a 20-minute playlist with their own preferred music, using a tablet and a music listening app. That playlist will then be presented on shuffle mode for 1 minute through headphones provided by the hospital. Volume can be selected by the participants. However, in order to prevent hearing loss the volume cannot exceed 80 decibels. The 15 minutes before the 5 minutes music listening intervention, participants will be instructed to remain seated and are not allowed to do anything else (for example using their phones).
OTHER	Listening to music for 20 minutes	Participants will be instructed to make a 20-minute playlist with their own preferred music, using a tablet and a music listening app. That playlist will then be presented on shuffle mode for 20 minutes through headphones provided by the hospital. Volume can be selected by the participants. However, in order to prevent hearing loss the volume cannot exceed 80 decibels.
OTHER	Not listening to music	Participants will be instructed to remain seated and are not allowed to do anything else (for example using their phones), for a duration of 20 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-28
• Primary completion: 2024-11-15
• Completion: 2024-11-15
• First posted: 2024-02-29
• Last updated: 2025-01-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands