Decreasing Delirium Through Music

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Delirium
• Interventions: Other: Attention Control; Other: Music Therapy - Personalized Playlist; Other: Music Therapy - Standard Playlist

• Registration Number: NCT03095443
• Lead Sponsor: Indiana University

Brief Summary

DDM is a study designed to Test the efficacy of personalized music therapy in reducing delirium incidence and severity among patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.

Detailed Description

Over 1 million adults are admitted to the intensive care unit and placed on mechanical ventilation on an annual basis. Intravenous sedatives and analgesics are commonly administered to these patients to reduce pain and anxiety. While the recent reduction in benzodiazepine usage has helped reduced ICU-related acute brain dysfunction (delirium), up to 80% of ventilated patients still develop acute brain failure. This is characterized by disturbance of consciousness with reduced ability to focus, sustain or shift attention, occurring over a short period of time and fluctuating over the course of a day.

Acute brain dysfunction has both short-term and long-term health impacts. It is associated with increased hospital length of stay, increased in-hospital mortality and post-discharge mortality as well increased health-care costs. Patients who experience delirium are at greater risk for post-discharge institutionalization and newly acquired cognitive impairment similar to dementia.

Despite the prevalence and morbidity associated with delirium, there is a scarcity of effective pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to prevent and treat this condition. While music therapy has shown to reduce anxiety and stress in cancer and dementia patients, these studies were performed outside the intensive care unit. It is hypothesized that music lowers inflammatory mediators such as cytokines and cortisol. Delirium pathophysiology similar to anxiety has a strong inflammatory component with excess of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukins 1, 6, and 8. Given the beneficial effects of music in reducing inflammatory mediators, it stands to reason that such intervention will have a beneficial impact on reducing delirium.

The investigators propose a randomized, three-group (personalized music intervention versus generic music intervention versus attention control) trial to test the feasibility and efficacy of music therapy in reducing delirium incidence, duration, and severity among critically ill patients in the ICU.

Our study focuses on the effect of music therapy on the incidence and severity of delirium in the intensive care unit at a large urban academic health center.

The investigators hypothesize that music therapy will lead to reduced levels of anxiety, delirium and need for sedating medications, leading to shorter hospital stays.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-12-01
• Study First Submitted: 2017-03-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-03-23
• Study First Posted: 2017-03-29
• Primary Completion: 2017-10-31
• Study Completion: 2018-12-31
• Status Verified: 2019-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-04-16
• Last Update Posted: 2019-04-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 56

Inclusion Criteria

• age 18 years or older
• English speaking
• admitted to the intensive care unit (medical or surgical)
• receiving mechanical ventilation

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Exclusion Criteria

• history of dementia
• psychiatric illness which is not well controlled
• alcohol withdrawal symptoms/concern for withdrawal
• suspected or confirmed drug intoxication/overdose
• traumatic brain injury
• hearing or vision impairment including legal blindness
• aphasic stroke
• coma after cardiac arrest/hypothermia protocol
• pregnant or nursing
• prisoners
• patients enrolled in another clinical trial.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Attention Control	Attention Control	Receives audio-book twice a day.
Personalized Music	Music Therapy - Personalized Playlist	Receives personalized playlist twice a day.
Non Personalized Music	Music Therapy - Standard Playlist	Receives standardized low beats per minute playlist twice a day.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Recruitment rates	Date of study enrollment through discharge from ICU, or date of study enrollment up to 28 days	the number of participants approached and their rates of consent
Intervention adherence	Date of study enrollment through discharge from ICU, or date of study enrollment up to 28 days	number of listening sessions completed per patient
Participant retention	Date of study enrollment through discharge from ICU, or date of study enrollment up to 28 days	Number of patients who complete the study.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Estimate the potential effect size	Date of study enrollment through discharge from ICU, or date of study enrollment up to 28 days	Patient-preferred music association with reducing delirium incidence as measured by CAM-ICU.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Eskenazi Hospital; 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States