NCT06973993

A Study to Evaluate the Impact of Classical Music on Perceived Waiting Time and Satisfaction in Emergency Department Patients

The MORAL (MOzart Recorded And Live) Impact of Classical Music on Perceived Waiting Time and Satisfaction: A Comparative Study in Emergency Department Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 97 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to evaluate whether classical music in the Emergency waiting room can diminish perception of waiting times. Patients and relatives, after arriving in the ER waiting room will either listen to live classical music, recorded classical music, or no music at all.

Detailed description

The study was submitted to the ethics committee as an interventional clinical trial; however, they advised that it does not qualify as a clinical trial. The project does not collect health-related information from patients, according to the definition provided by swiss research law, and therefore does not require any authorization. They qualify it as a quality control initiative. Please advise on how we should register it into clinicaltrials.gov, we might need the ID for publication purpose. Thank you

Conditions

• Emergency Room

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	live music	live music will be played during waiting time in ER room
OTHER	recorded music	recorded music will be transmitted during waiting time in ER room
OTHER	no music	no music will be played or transmitted during waiting time in ER room

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-01
• Primary completion: 2025-08-31
• Completion: 2025-08-31
• First posted: 2025-05-15
• Last updated: 2026-03-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland