The Effects of Music on Fear of Childbirth and Outcome of Delivery
NCT ID: NCT01687907
Last Updated: 2012-09-19
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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
NA
800 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2009-10-31
2015-12-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Listening or playing music is very common in all cultures. Even fetuses are able to hear and recognize music and babies are interested in voices and sounds of music.
Music therapy has been used in other purposes widely. It is known that music stimulates the synthesis of dopamine in brain and it has been shown that music has an influence on hypertensive rats, lowering their blood pressure. In human beings there has been pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain. It has also been shown that music listening enhances cognitive recovery and mood after middle cerebral artery stroke.
A strong attachment between mother and infant is essential to child's normal developement. Mothers who suffer from very strong fear of childbirth often have difficulties in mother-infant relationship and pronounced risk of puerperal depression.
Many features in listening and playing music have something to do in bonding together in societies. Lullabies are good example of communication between parent and infant.
There has been some trials about music therapy and pregnancy but not systematic randomized trials about listening to music and its influence on pain experience, length of delivery or complications of delivery. Music has a relaxing influence on human beings and we assume that it has a positive influence on pregnant women also.
We try to find out if active listening to music has any influence on physical and mental wellbeing of pregnant women or is there any influence on fear of childbirth, outcome of delivery or mother-baby relationship.
Pregnant women referred to the outpatient clinic because of fear of childbirth have also normal appointments with obstetrician and/or midwife as needed and participating this trial has no influence on those appointments.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Fear of childbirth, music
Patients referred to the motherhood out-patient clinic because of fear of childbirth. Advised to active music listening. Followed up by weekly and monthly diaries and three questionnaires (when recruiting, just after the delivery and 6 months after the delivery).
Music
Fear of childbirth, control
Patients referred to the motherhood out-patient clinic because of fear of childbirth. No intervention. Followed up by three questionnaires (when recruiting, just after the delivery and 6 months after the delivery).
No interventions assigned to this group
Nulliparous, music
300 nulliparous women recruited from the ultrasound screening. Advised to active music listening. Three questionnaires like the other arms, weekly and monthly diaries like the other music group. Screening questionnaires about fear of childbirth.
Music
Nulliparous, control
300 nulliparous women recruited from ultrasound screening. No intervention. 3 Questionnaires as all the other groups. Screening questionnaire about fear of childbirth.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Music
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* nulliparous in arms 3 and 4
Exclusion Criteria
FEMALE
No
Sponsors
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Helsinki University Central Hospital
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Assi Sten
Principal investigator
Principal Investigators
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Terhi Saisto, MD,PhD
Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
Helsinki University Central Hospital
Assi Sten, MD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Helsinki University Central Hospital
Locations
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Helsinki University Central Hospital
Helsinki, HUS, Finland
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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Assi Sten, MD
Role: primary
References
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O'Connell MA, Khashan AS, Leahy-Warren P, Stewart F, O'Neill SM. Interventions for fear of childbirth including tocophobia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Jul 7;7(7):CD013321. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013321.pub2.
Other Identifiers
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18/2.9.2009, 178/13/03/03/2009
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id