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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
143 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2013-05-31
2017-03-31
Brief Summary
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The investigators hypothesize that live music:
1. Have an ameliorating effect on physical and psychological symptoms during chemotherapy treatment
2. May counteract the patients feeling of loss of identity and alienation in this particular group of cancer patients.
3. Is more effective in patients with good musical abilities.
4. Is more effective than taped music.
Method: Intervention groups:
1. Listening to patient-preferred live music during chemotherapy
2. Listening to patient-preferred taped music during chemotherapy
3. Standard care
Endpoints:
Primary: Level of anxiety measured by STAI. Secondary: Serum catecholamines.
Background: In order to establish the intervention procedures, the investigators have carried out a pilot study at the hematology department at Hospital of Southwest Denmark, including students from the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark. The pilot results indicates that live music has an uplifting, pain relieving, and then releasing effect and that music has a positive impact on hospitalisation. According to the evaluation forms filled out by 243 cancer patients, the music experience has provided human anchorage/cohesion as a counterweight to disease fixation and alienation Chemotherapy involves major physical and psychological problems. Not much has been provided in the clinical setting which relieves the symptoms of anxiety associated with chemotherapy. A review of the literature illustrate the need for developing new potential areas of intervention that takes into account, that not only do cancer patients face challenges in everyday life ranging from physiological changes over social to psychological problems, but also during treatment procedures, which may cause a higher level of anxiety associated with these procedures, e.g., chemotherapy infusion.This project investigates to what degree live music may relieve some of these symptoms during treatment for haematological cancer. The project is created in order to both measure psychosocial effects as well as direct stress measures, i.e. serum catecholamine. These physiological changes are measured in order to shed light on the mechanism behind the potential effects of live music on discomfort in connection with chemotherapy treatment.
Perspectives: The vision of the project focus on strengthening the cancer patients' ability to cope with physiological and psychological issues during chemotherapy sessions and to make the patients conscious of music as an option in these coping efforts. Hopefully, the results will provide a scientific basis for an evaluation of the perspectives and the potentials of live music treatment during chemotherapy infusion among cancer patients.
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
NONE
Study Groups
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Live music
Patient preferred live music during chemotherapy session.
Live music
Taped music
Patient preferred taped music during chemotherapy
Taped music
Control
Usual care during chemotherapy
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Live music
Taped music
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Newly diagnosed with malignant lymphoma and planned first line chemotherapy treatment
* Able to give informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
* Patients who are deaf or blind.
* Any comorbidity that postpone planed chemotherapy for more than 4 weeks
* Patients with alcohol or drugs misuse problems as stated in the medical record.
* Patients with untreated mental illness as identified in the medical record
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Danish Cancer Society
OTHER
University of Aarhus
OTHER
Margrethe Langer Bro
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Margrethe Langer Bro
Assistant professor
Principal Investigators
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Margrethe L Bro, PhD student
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
IRS, Southern Denmark. Assistant professor at The Academy of Music in Southern Denmark
Locations
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Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, Central Jutland, Denmark
Hospital of Southwest Jutland
Esbjerg, Region of Southwest Denmark, Denmark
Odense University Hospital
Odense, Region of Southwest Denmark, Denmark
The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark
Odense, Region of Southwest Denmark, Denmark
Roskilde Sygehus
Roskilde, Region Sjælland, Denmark
Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, The Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Herlev Hospital
Copenhagen, The Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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S-20120118
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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