TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of Live Music on the Perception of Noise in the SICU/PICU
T2 - A Patient, Caregiver, and Medical Staff Environmental Study
AU - Rossetti, Andrew
AU - Loewy, Joanne
AU - Chang-Lit, Wen
AU - van Dokkum, Nienke H.
AU - Baumann, Erik
AU - Bouissou, Gabrielle
AU - Mondanaro, John
AU - O’Connor, Todd
AU - Asch-Ortiz, Gabriela
AU - Mitaka, Hayato
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by the authors.
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - Intensive Care Units (ICUs) require a multidisciplinary team that consists of, but is not limited to, intensivists (clinicians who specialize in critical illness care), pharmacists and nurses, respiratory care therapists, and other medical consultants from a broad range of specialties. The complex and demanding critical care environment provides few opportunities for patients and personal and professional caregivers to evaluate how sound effects them. A growing body of literature attests to noise’s adverse influence on patients’ sleep, and high sound levels are a source of staff stress, as noise is an ubiquitous and noxious stimuli. Vulnerable patients have a low threshold tolerance to audio-induced stress. Despite these indications, peak sound levels often register as high, as can ventilators, and the documented noise levels in hospitals continue to rise. This baseline study, carried out in two hospitals’ Surgical and Pediatric Intensive Care Units, measured the effects of live music on the perception of noise through surveying patients, personal caregivers and staff in randomized conditions of no music, and music as provided by music therapists through our hospital system’s environmental music therapy program.
AB - Intensive Care Units (ICUs) require a multidisciplinary team that consists of, but is not limited to, intensivists (clinicians who specialize in critical illness care), pharmacists and nurses, respiratory care therapists, and other medical consultants from a broad range of specialties. The complex and demanding critical care environment provides few opportunities for patients and personal and professional caregivers to evaluate how sound effects them. A growing body of literature attests to noise’s adverse influence on patients’ sleep, and high sound levels are a source of staff stress, as noise is an ubiquitous and noxious stimuli. Vulnerable patients have a low threshold tolerance to audio-induced stress. Despite these indications, peak sound levels often register as high, as can ventilators, and the documented noise levels in hospitals continue to rise. This baseline study, carried out in two hospitals’ Surgical and Pediatric Intensive Care Units, measured the effects of live music on the perception of noise through surveying patients, personal caregivers and staff in randomized conditions of no music, and music as provided by music therapists through our hospital system’s environmental music therapy program.
KW - ICU noise
KW - environmental music therapy
KW - fragile hospital environments
KW - hospital environments
KW - music perception
KW - noise perception
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148964360&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph20043499
DO - 10.3390/ijerph20043499
M3 - Article
C2 - 36834194
AN - SCOPUS:85148964360
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 20
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 4
M1 - 3499
ER -