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Trial reportJournal of midwifery & women's health

Music and Sleep Hygiene Interventions for Pregnancy-Related Insomnia: An Online Randomized Controlled Trial.

Nadia Flensted Hoegholt, Camilla Eva Krænge, Peter Vuust, Morten Kringelbach, Kira Vibe Jespersen

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Trial report in Journal of midwifery & women's health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04633395 (Treating Pregnancy Related Insomnia With Music), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

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NCT04633395 nacompletednot on this map

Treating Pregnancy Related Insomnia With Music: a Randomised Control Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of AarhusRan2020 to 2022Enrolled106ConditionsPregnancy Related, Sleep Disturbance, InsomniaArmsMusic, Sleep hygiene
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A systematic review and meta-analysis of music interventions to improve sleep in adults with mental health problems.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nadia Flensted HoegholtCenter for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-7413-586X
Camilla Eva KrængeCenter of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-7163-1852
Peter VuustCenter for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-4908-735X
Morten KringelbachCenter for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-3908-6898
Kira Vibe JespersenCenter for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-7183-3849

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionApproximately 50% to 60% of all pregnant women suffer from insomnia during pregnancy. Pregnancy-related insomnia has been associated with severe outcomes for both mother and child postnatally. Currently, the treatment of pregnancy-related insomnia is often neglected due to a lack of suitable treatments. This online assessor-masked randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of music listening and sleep hygiene for treating pregnancy-related insomnia.

methodsWe recruited first-time pregnant women at the end of the second trimester with a report of poor sleep. Participants in the music and sleep hygiene (MSH) group received standard sleep hygiene advice and were instructed to listen to music daily at bedtime for 4 weeks. They could choose from 6 sleep playlists of different genres. Participants randomized to the sleep hygiene alone (SH) group received standard sleep hygiene only. Primary outcomes were sleep quality measured with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and insomnia severity measured with the Insomnia Severity Index. CLINICALTRIALS: gov Identifier: NCT04633395.

resultsAmong the 98 participants receiving the online intervention, 31 participants in the MSH group (62%) and 40 participants in the SH group (80%) completed the postintervention measurements. Both groups experienced improved sleep quality during the intervention period (PSQI change, -2.10; 95% CI, -3.27 to -0.93; P < .001), with no significant difference between the groups. Similarly, insomnia symptoms were reduced (Insomnia Severity Index change, -3.42; 95% CI, -5.02 to -1.83; P < .001) with no significant difference in the effect between groups. There was a significant difference in adherence to sleep hygiene between the MSH and SH groups (42% vs 8%; P = .007). DISCUSSION: Sleep quality and insomnia severity can be improved in pregnant women with relatively simple interventions like music listening and sleep hygiene advice. These results align with previous research, but larger trials are recommended to support introduction into clinical practice.

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MusicMusic TherapyPregnancy ComplicationsSleep HygieneSleep Initiation and Maintenance DisordersAdultFemaleHumansPregnancySleepSleep QualityYoung Adultinsomniamusicpregnancyrandomized controlled trialsleepsleep hygiene

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PMCPMC12172598

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