A new clinical trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that slow-tempo music did not significantly reduce delirium duration or severity, nor did it lessen pain or anxiety symptoms among older adults receiving mechanical ventilation.

This study between February 2020 and December 2023, involved 158 older patients (average age 68) from the ICUs of 2 hospitals affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The participants were randomly assigned to either a music intervention group that listened to slow-tempo music at 60–80 beats per minute, or a control group that listened to silence under identical conditions.

The intervention involved twice-daily listening sessions of classical and contemporary slow

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