Sunday, Sep 26 - Expo Hall Opening
Sunday, Sep 26 - Job Fair
Monday,
Sep 27 - AWHONN's Block Party
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
: 10:30 AM
Title: The Effect of Symphonic Music During Fetal Monitoring
Venetian
Audio File
Discipline: Women’s Health (WH), Newborn (NB), Childbearing (CB), Advanced Practice (AP)
Learning Objectives:
Submission Description:- Describe how listening to symphonic music has impacted the procedural satisfaction, the procedural anxiety, and the procedural compliance of the high-risk maternal patient during routine fetal monitoring in this study.
- Discuss how nursing can partner with music therapists to provide relaxation to high-risk patients.
- List two ways how the results could impact your practice.
Symphonic music listening was used in a methodological research study to measure procedural satisfaction, anxiety, and compliance during routine fetal monitoring. The study took place in a large tertiary academic urban hospital system in the Midwest United States. Forty-nine participants completed the study. They were a minimum of 18 years old, experiencing a high-risk pregnancy that required inpatient hospitalization, and underwent fetal monitoring two to three times per day. This was a randomized self-control study that used the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI short form) and a subjective patient satisfaction questionnaire. All participants received two conditions, one with music listening and one without music during fetal monitoring. Prior to routine fetal monitoring, participants in both control and study sessions completed the pre-test (STAI short form) and at the completion of the monitoring two post-tests (STAI short form and a satisfaction questionnaire). The adjusted mean difference in the STAI scores with a 95% confidence interval was 2.5 (1.3, 3.7). When undergoing testing, patients’ anxiety levels were significantly lower with the inclusion of music, as compared to no additional intervention (p< 0.0001). The participants stated that they were less anxious, more comfortable and more relaxed during procedures with music. Both groups stated music would help during procedures and would recommend music listening to others. Music listening was found to be beneficial to patients under going routine fetal monitoring.
