Effects of Live Music on the Perception of Noise in the SICU/PICU: A Patient, Caregiver, and Medical Staff Environmental Study

Andrew Rossetti (), Joanne Loewy (), Wen Chang-Lit, Nienke H. van Dokkum, Erik Baumann, Gabrielle Bouissou, John Mondanaro, Todd O’Connor, Gabriela Asch-Ortiz and Hayato Mitaka
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Andrew Rossetti: The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY 10003, USA
Joanne Loewy: The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY 10003, USA
Wen Chang-Lit: Independent Researcher, New York, NY 11354, USA
Nienke H. van Dokkum: Beatrix Children’s Hospital, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
Erik Baumann: International Association for Music and Medicine, Lima 15074, Peru
Gabrielle Bouissou: NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, New York, NY 10029, USA
John Mondanaro: Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 10019, USA
Todd O’Connor: The Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, New York, NY 10029, USA
Gabriela Asch-Ortiz: Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York-Presbyterian, New York, NY 10032, USA
Hayato Mitaka: Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: hospital environments; ICU noise; environmental music therapy; noise perception; music perception; fragile hospital environments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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