The Role of Music in Palliative Care: A Proposal for a Rural Based Initiative in Music Based Interventions

NCT ID: NCT02661880

Last Updated: 2022-11-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-03-07
• Study Completion Date: 2017-04-06

Brief Summary

Current practice in larger palliative care centers offer many supportive service modalities, which are often unavailable in the rural setting. Music Therapy by experienced registered Music Therapists is an example of such a modality. The current evidence continues to grow, identifying Music Therapy's benefits to help with symptom relief as well as to improve Quality of Life in many aspects of medicine, but especially in the context of palliative care. This proposal outlines an initiative to provide music-based interventions in a rural community palliative care unit where there is limited availability to a registered Music Therapist.

Detailed Description

Study participants in the pilot phase will include patients admitted to the Aberdeen Hospital Palliative Care Unit. Patients excluded from participating would include those unwilling to participate for any reason. All patients will be invited to complete the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire - Revised (McGill QOL-R) upon admission to the unit. The Questionnaire will not be part of the permanent medical record and the participants will remain anonymous. Afterwards participants will be asked if they would like to listen to music during their stay in the hospital. Music will be selected according to their choices from an i-Tunes playlist. Participants will be invited to listen to music at their own discretion. Prior to discharge from the hospital or after 3 days all willing patients will be again invited to complete the McGill QOL-R questionnaire. The participants will remain anonymous, but will be identified as to whether they listened or did not listen to music during their hospitalization.

Conditions

Improved Emotional Regulation; Improvement in Quality of Life; Symptom Relief; Preservation of Dignity; Existential Solace; Relief of Suffering; Emotional Regulation; Quality of Life; Dignity

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

listening to preferred music choices

All patients will be invited to complete the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire - Revised (McGill QOL-R) upon admission to the unit. The Questionnaire will not be part of the permanent medical record and the participants will remain anonymous. Afterwards participants will be asked if they would like to listen to music during their stay in the hospital. Music will be selected according to their choices from an i-Tunes playlist. Participants will be invited to listen to music at their own discretion. Prior to discharge from the hospital or after 3 days all willing participants will be again invited to complete the McGill QOL-R questionnaire.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

preferred music

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

listening to preferred music choices

Interventions

preferred music

listening to preferred music choices

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• patients admitted to the Aberdeen Hospital Palliative Care Unit.

Exclusion Criteria

• those patients unwilling to participate for any reason

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Nova Scotia Health Authority

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Anne M Kwasnik-Krawczyk

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Dalhousie University

Other Identifiers

Music in Palliative Care

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id