Clinical trial NCT06084793: Music for Anxiety in Embryo Transfers
Official title: Effect of Music Before and During an Embryo Transfer on the Anxiety and Satisfaction Levels: An Open-label Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES
Embryo Transfer
Music
Test Anxiety
Patient Satisfaction
Keywords: music
embryo transfer
randomized controlled trial
anxiety
satisfaction
Lead sponsor: Centro de Estudios en Genetica y Reproduccion
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-10-16
Enrollment: 146
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 53
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The process of randomization and allocation concealment will be implemented through a block random computer-generated list.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to compare if playing music before and during an embryo transfer can make a difference for women who are going through a frozen embryo transfer as part of a medical procedure called assisted reproduction technology (ART).

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does listening to music before and while having the embryo transfer make patients feel more satisfied and less anxious?
* Does listening to music before and during the embryo transfer affect how likely it is for the woman to get pregnant?

Before the embryo transfer, the participants will listen to music through earphones or speakers. During the embryo transfer, the participants will listen to music through speakers.

During the embryo transfer, the comparison group will not listen to music and will receive the usual care.

The aim is to see if listening to music before and during the embryo transfer can help make the procedure better for women.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* women undergoing a frozen embryo transfer as a consequence of an ART technique

Exclusion Criteria:

* gestational carriers
* hearing-impaired or deaf persons
* fresh embryo transfers

Primary outcomes:
measure: Participant satisfaction rate
timeFrame: Immediate after the embryo transfer
measure: Participant anxiety rate
timeFrame: Immediate before after the embryo transfer
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Buenos Aires
country: Argentina
facility: Cegyr (Eugin group)
Study officials:
affiliation: Cegyr (Eugin group)
name: Demian Glujovsky, MD MSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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