Music Therapy for Palliative Care Patients

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

51 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-04-30

Study Completion Date

2017-10-31

Brief Summary

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This study aims to find out if music therapy is effective in improving the quality of life of palliative care patients. It will do this by comparing palliative care patients who receive music therapy with those who do not receive music therapy.

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Detailed Description

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Quality of life (QOL) is very important for palliative care patients, and includes the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of a patient's life. Music therapy is often used to help palliative care patients and there is some evidence that music therapy helps improve their quality of life, especially in relation to reducing levels of pain. Many palliative care patients and their families have also said that music therapy is helpful. However, more research is needed to help healthcare providers and funders decide if music therapy really is a useful treatment for patients receiving palliative care.

Conditions

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Palliative Care

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

Study Groups

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Experimental Group

Music therapy for up to 45 minutes twice a week for three weeks, in addition to usual care from the hospice multidisciplinary team.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Music therapy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Music therapy is a clinical intervention conducted by qualified therapists who use shared music-making and improvisation to engage and interact with the client (s) in order to work towards specific therapeutic objectives.

This is the aim of sessions, rather than the teaching or utilising of any musical skills, and clients do not have to have any prior musical training or experience whatsoever in order to participate in and benefit from music therapy. The intervention is client-led and the therapist will guide the patient in a range of strategies and activities appropriate to the therapeutic aims in place. Sessions can be individual, or family members can also be involved if appropriate and desired.

Control Group

Usual care only from the hospice multidisciplinary team. The dose and frequency of usual care will be as deemed appropriate by the hospice practitioner in charge of their treatment.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Music therapy

Music therapy is a clinical intervention conducted by qualified therapists who use shared music-making and improvisation to engage and interact with the client (s) in order to work towards specific therapeutic objectives.

This is the aim of sessions, rather than the teaching or utilising of any musical skills, and clients do not have to have any prior musical training or experience whatsoever in order to participate in and benefit from music therapy. The intervention is client-led and the therapist will guide the patient in a range of strategies and activities appropriate to the therapeutic aims in place. Sessions can be individual, or family members can also be involved if appropriate and desired.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Only patients deemed able to engage with interactive music therapy will be invited to join the study. Eligibility will be assessed by a clinician during inpatient admission using the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scale and the Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT).

* Patients will be eligible if they have an ECOG performance status of 0, 1, 2 or 3 (0 indicating the patient is asymptomatic, 1 the patient is symptomatic but fully ambulatory, 2 the patient is symptomatic and confined to bed for less than 50% of the day, and 3 the patient is symptomatic and confined to bed for more than 50% of the day)) indicating they are able to engage with interactive music therapy. - Eligible patients will also have a score of 7 or more on the AMT, indicating they are capable of providing meaningful informed consent and accurate responses to the study's primary outcome measurement tool.
* Patients with communication difficulties will also be eligible if they are able to indicate their responses to the questionnaire.
* Musical skills are not required. Prior musical skills will not lead to exclusion from the study. The patient must freely consent to participation following receipt of information about the trial.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients will be excluded from the study if they have an ECOG performance status of 4 (4 indicating the patient is severely symptomatic and completely bedridden) or a score of 6 or less on the AMT, indicating they may not be capable of providing fully informed consent or accurate responses to the study's primary outcome measurement tool.
* Participants who decide not to consent will be excluded from the trial. Patients will be assured that this decision will have no implications for the care that they receive.

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No