Effect of Virtual Reality and Music Therapy on the PhysiologicParameters of Pregnant Women and Fetuses and on AnxietyLevels: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Anxiety; Alternative and Complementary Medicine - Other alternative and complementary medicine; Mental Health - Anxiety

• Registration Number: ACTRN12621001647820
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Almeria

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2021-12-01
• Study Completion: 2022-06-01
• Last Update Posted: 23 January 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 343

Inclusion Criteria

Full-term pregnant women, over 37 weeks' gestation for the performance of the CFM.
- To participate voluntarily in the study.
- Women whose pregnancy is low risk, meeting the criteria of being healthy women whose pregnancy has been achieved without assisted reproductive techniques or who have developed obstetric complications.
- Absence of maternal exposure to drugs or medications (not prescribed by their gynecologist during pregnancy)
- Nulliparous women.
- Single fetus pregnancy with no known fatal fetal abnormality or known fetal cardiovascular abnormality.

Exclusion Criteria

- Pregnant minors.
- Pregnant women who have undergone urgent cesarean section at the end of the study.
- Women who have developed gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia / eclampsia, or other conditions that classify them as non-low-risk pregnancies during pregnancy.
- Women who have given birth to a newborn (NB) weighing less than 2,200 kg or greater than 4,500 kg or the death of the fetus occurs at the end of the study.
- Pregnant women in intervention group 1 and 2 who did not meet any of the study standards (stop listening to music or remove virtual reality glasses during monitoring).
- Pregnant women who have presented language problems or reading and verbal comprehension difficulties.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change on pregnant women's anxiety levels during cardiac-fetal monitoring, measured by STAI test, before starting it and after finish it, on both interventional groups (music therapy and virtual reality).[at last routine cardiac-fetal monitoring during pregnancy after randomisation<br>]