A randomized controlled study examining a novel binaural beat technique for treatment of preoperative anxiety in a group of women undergoing elective caesarean section.

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Arianna ParodiMassimo Mazzella

Abstract

Attention is being focused on improving mothers' positive experiences of childbirth while reducing the negative ones. Cesarean section is a known factor able to increase maternal anxiety. To determine whether a new binaural beat-based technique can reduce the preoperative discomfort of the elective surgical patient. Prospective, randomized double-blind controlled study: 60 women scheduled to undergo elective cesarean section. Women with a low risk pregnancy were recruited and enrolled at the time of the "37 weeks" visit. Exclusion criteria were: psychiatric disorders, neurological impairment, epilepsy, deafness, use of drugs/alcohol during pregnancy, insufficient reading level. Participants will be contestually allocated to one of three groups according to a predetermined computer-generated random sequence: (1) "binaural" group, (2) "normal music" group, and (3) "control" group. Participants of groups 1 and 2 will be unaware of the type of audio heard. According to the allocation arm, participants were asked to listen an engineered audio track (binaural beat arm) created with the novel algorithm "Dynamic Spectrum Phase Shift" (DMSPS), or an identical soundtrack without DMSPS in it (music arm), or no specific intervention, repre...Continue Reading

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