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Effect of Maternal Voice on Pain, Sedation, and Physiological Parameters in Mechanically Ventilated Children

No phase Interventional Pain Sedation Mechanical Ventilation

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What is being studied
The protocol lists: Recorded Maternal Voice.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Pain, Sedation, Mechanical Ventilation. Basic parameters: 1 year — 3 years · All.
What needs checking
Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
Where it takes place
Turkey (Türkiye)
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Official title

The Effect of Maternal Voice Played to Children on Mechanical Ventilators on Pain, Sedation, and Physiological Parameters: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Overview

Children in the pediatric intensive care unit often experience pain and stress from medical procedures, even while sedated. This study will test whether playing a recording of the child's mother's voice helps reduce pain and the need for sedation medication in children aged 1 to 3 years who are on a breathing machine (mechanical ventilator). Children will be randomly placed into one of two groups: one group will listen to a 10-minute recording of their mother's voice through headphones, while the other group will receive usual care with no recording. Researchers will measure pain and comfort levels, heart rate, oxygen levels, blood pressure, and breathing rate before, during, and after the session to see if listening to the mother's voice makes a difference.

Detailed description

This randomized controlled trial will be conducted in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of Kayseri City Hospital. Eligible children (aged 1-3 years, intubated, mechanically ventilated, and sedated, with no change in sedation dose in the prior 24 hours) will be assigned to an intervention or control group using stratified block randomization (stratified by age, sex, diagnosis duration, and COMFORT scale score), with simple randomization within blocks performed by an independent researcher.

In the intervention group, each child's mother will be asked to read a children's storybook aloud in a quiet room, and this reading will be recorded (approximately 10 minutes). The recording will then be played to the child once, through wireless over-ear headphones at a safe volume (50-55 dB), during a single morning session. The COMFORT Scale and physiological parameters (heart rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, respiratory rate) will be assessed before, during, and after the recording is played. All sessions will be video recorded so that COMFORT Scale scores can also be scored by independent, blinded observers.

Children in the control group will receive standard unit care with no additional intervention, and will be assessed on the same schedule and with the same tools as the intervention group.

Data will be analyzed using IBM SPSS 27.0. Group comparisons will use Chi-square, Independent/Paired Samples t-tests, or Mann-Whitney U/Wilcoxon tests as appropriate, with statistical significance set at p \< 0.05.

Interventions

  • Behavioral Recorded Maternal Voice
    A single \~10-minute audio recording of the child's own mother reading a children's storybook ("The Invisible String," Turkish edition) will be played once through wireless over-ear headphones at a safe listening level (50-55 dB), during a single morning session (10:00-12:00), with no other procedural interventions during playback. The recording will be made in a quiet room by an independent researcher using a digital audio recorder. Want to be notified when Claude responds?

Primary outcome measures

  • COMFORT Scale Score [Time frame: Assessed before (~5 min), during (~10 min), and immediately after (~5 min) the intervention, within a single ~20-minute session on the day of enrollment]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

  • Children aged 1-3 years, intubated and mechanically ventilated under sedation
  • No change in sedation dose within the last 24 hours
  • No hearing impairment in the child
  • Parent has no visual, hearing, or speech impairment
  • Parent is a Turkish speaker/reader with at least a primary school education
  • Parent provides written and verbal informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Children receiving care/treatment due to surgical operation or trauma
  • Children who experience cardiac arrest during the study
  • Children whose parent withdraws consent during the study
  • Children who are extubated during the study

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: No

Study design

Allocation
Randomized
Model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single blind
Primary purpose
Supportive care

Study locations

Turkey (Türkiye) · 1 center
  • Kayseri City Hospital — Kayseri

Identifiers

NCT: NCT07753486 · 2025/607

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗