Evaluation of the Minimalist Music and Birdsongs in the Anxiety of Nursing Professionals in Oncology
March 10, 2025 updated by: Eliseth Ribeiro Leao, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Evaluation of the Minimalist Music and Birdsongs in the Anxiety of Nursing Professionals in Oncology: a Randomized Clinical Trial
This project aims to investigate the effects of an intervention involving minimalist piano music and bird singing on the anxiety of nursing professionals working in the Oncology sector of a hospital.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The demand for care with mental health of nursing professionals is increasingly present, considering the high rate of anxiety symptoms presented by the teams providing health care within hospitals.
Oncology is one of the sectors where professionals have constant contact with situations of suffering and death, being a place where the enlargement of therapeutic tools for handling anxiety symptoms may bring benefits.
Scientific literature has never described the effectiveness of works with minimalist music and birds singing used simultaneously with anxiety relief resources.
Objective: Assess the effects of music intervention, with minimalist repertoire, with or without association to birds singing over anxiety of nursing professionals that work in Oncology.
Method: Randomized Clinical controlled trial.
The study will be performed in the Oncology sector of Israeli Hospital Albert Einstein located in São Paulo, Brazil and the population consists in 100 nursing professionals.
The intervention will consist in a musical part, especially developed for this study and in recording of birds singing, played live for each one of the participants, individually with 10 to 15 minutes duration.
The instrument for anxiety assessment chosen for this project is short-form of state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI-S-6).
The project was approved by the research ethics committee, whose identification number on Plataforma Brasil (CAAE) is 59498222.6.0000.0071
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
60
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 05652 900
- Hospital israelita Albert Einstein
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Nursing professionals working in oncology Unit
- Over 18 years old
Exclusion Criteria:
- Nursing professionals who, for whatever reason, are unable to fully participate of the proposed musical intervention.
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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No Intervention: Control group
The control group will not receive any intervention
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Experimental: Minimalist music group
a live session of minimalist music piano piece
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Participants in this group will listen individually a live session of minimalist music piano piece, in a break room in the oncology sector, lasting between 10 and 15 minutes.
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Experimental: Minimalist music plus birdsongs group
a live session of minimalist music piano piece with the superposition of bird song sounds
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Participants in this group will listen individually a live session of minimalist music piano piece with the superposition of bird song sounds, in a break room in the oncology sector, lasting between 10 and 15 minutes.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change from baseline levels of anxiety at immediately post intervention
Time Frame: immediately pre intervention and immediately post intervention.
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To assess the anxiety of the study participant, the reduced scale of trait anxiety (STAI-S-6), validated in Brazil in a large sample of Brazilians, will be used.
There are 6 questions that assess how the individual is feeling at the present moment and can be answered with 4 options on a 4-point Likert scale: 1- almost never; 2- sometimes; 3- frequently; 4- almost always.
This gives a score range from 6 to 24.
To create scores compatible with the original STAI-S scores, the STAI-6 scores will be divided by 6 and multiplied by 20 to give a range from 20 to 80.STAI scores are commonly classified as "no or low anxiety" (20-37), "moderate anxiety" (38-44), and "high anxiety" (45-80).
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immediately pre intervention and immediately post intervention.
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Eliseth R Leão, PhD, Hospital israelita Albert Einstein
Publications and helpful links
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Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
October 1, 2022
Primary Completion (Actual)
March 31, 2023
Study Completion (Actual)
March 31, 2023
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
August 19, 2022
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
August 19, 2022
First Posted (Actual)
August 22, 2022
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
March 25, 2025
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
March 10, 2025
Last Verified
March 1, 2025
More Information
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 5483730
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
NO
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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