1.8. Current Study
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Music therapists are trained to work with sound, and may sensitively influence the way sound is organized in stressful environments through mechanisms such as entrainment and modulation of discreet music elements [In addressing the sensitivity and response to unwanted sound through learning about the perceptions of an environment’s constituents, clinicians, patients, families and caregivers might attend to how music may or may not create order and favorably modulate the perception of the environment through subtle adjustments, which include alteration of perception and the meaning of unwanted sound. This process is based on principles of integration of noise into a musically altered soundscape and the orders of musical structure and its effects at any given moment in the ICU [Infusion of a natural, subtle and aesthetically pleasing intervention of music does not require attention or invasive implementation on any person’s part. Music is an organic stimulus that can gradually and sensitively increase awareness and shift one’s state of attention. The outcomes of such an intervention could have serious effects on not only the noise level and perception of its meaning, but also on the perception of the healing environment itself amidst myriad potentially traumatic situations. Since the implemented culture of safety and warnings to its lack thereof are cited as among the highest risks factors that potentially lead to medical errors in America, adherence to measures that can potentially impact the sound environment are well warranted [