Trial reportIntensive & critical care nursing2013
Does music influence stress in mechanically ventilated patients?
Trial report in Intensive & critical care nursing, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- Influence of Music on Cortisol Levels in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review.Nursing in critical care · 2026Pooled it
- Reporting quality of music intervention research in healthcare: A systematic review.Complementary therapies in medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Music interventions for mechanically ventilated patients.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Effects of music intervention on inflammatory markers in critically ill and post-operative patients: A systematic review of the literature.Heart & lung : the journal of critical carePooled it
- The Effect of Listening to Holy Quran Recitation on Weaning Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation in the Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Study.Journal of religion and health · 2019Trial
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- The Effect of Reciting the Quran on the Anxiety of Neurosurgery Muslim Candidates.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Effect of music therapy on short-term psychological and physiological outcomes in mechanically ventilated patients: A randomized clinical pilot study.Journal of intensive medicine · 2024Article
- Corporeal rehabilitation to manage acute stress in critically ill patients.Annals of intensive care · 2022Article
- [Research advances of music therapy and its application in the field of burn treatment].Zhonghua shao shang yu chuang mian xiu fu za zhi · 2022Article
- Mechanisms of Music Impact: Autonomic Tone and the Physical Activity Roadmap to Advancing Understanding and Evidence-Based Policy.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Effect of music on postoperative pain in patients under open heart surgery.Nursing and midwifery studies · 2014Article
- The influence of music during mechanical ventilation and weaning from mechanical ventilation: A review.Heart & lung : the journal of critical careReview
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Abstract
objectivesMechanically ventilated patients experience profound stress. Interventions are needed to ameliorate stress that does not cause adverse effects. The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of music on stress in a sample of patients over the duration of ventilatory support. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY/
designRandomised controlled trial; randomised patients (56.8+16.9 years, 61% male, APACHE III 57.2+18.3) receiving ventilatory support to: (1) patient-directed music (PDM) where patients self-initiated music listening whenever desired from a preferred collection, (2) headphones only to block ICU noise, or (3) usual ICU care. Twenty-four hour urinary cortisol samples were collected from a sub-set of subjects with intact renal function and not receiving medications known to influence cortisol levels (n=65).
setting12 ICUs in the Midwestern United States.
main outcome measuresUrinary free cortisol (UFC), an integrative biomarker of stress.
resultsControlling for illness severity, gender, and baseline UFC (29-45 mg/day), mixed models analysis revealed no significant differences among groups in UFC over the course of ventilatory support.
conclusionWhile music did not significantly reduce cortisol, less profound spikes in UFC levels were observed but that, given the limitations of the research, this observation could have occurred merely by chance.
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