Music During Paediatric Outpatient Wound Dressing Changes: Impact on Anxiety, Pain and Patient Satisfaction
Wound Heal
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Wound Heal focused on measuring Wound dressing
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Aged 9 years and above, male or female
- Anticipated to require at least 2 further wound dressing changes or outpatient painful procedures (e.g. cryotherapy for skin lesions)
- Already had at least one outpatient dressing change or painful outpatient procedure prior to recruitment
- Able to communicate clearly, navigate simple technical software, be awake and alert
- Not hearing impaired
- Willing to use headphones
- Able to read and communicate in English
Exclusion Criteria:
- Hearing impaired
- Abnormal anatomy of external ear (unable to use headphones)
- Wound site prevents use of headphones - for example, on the ear
Sites / Locations
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Music intervention
Control
The music intervention used in the study will be a patient selected list of songs or other music delivered to the participant by passive listening via in-ear or on-ear headphones. They will be given the choice of using their own personal headphones or use a pair provided by the hospital. If choosing to use a hospital device, the earphones provided will be disposable to minimise infection risk from re-use. Patient preferred music has shown to be more effective than preselected, or prescriptive music. Prescriptive music, if not of the patient's preference, could cause further discomfort, distress or anxiety. Therefore, investigators will use streaming services to provide a bank of music containing a wide range of music and genres to suit the majority of music preferences. Music will also be curated based on feedback from age-appropriate sources to identify common and popular music in the target participant age group.
Wound dressing procedure conducted according to clinical practice