The Effects of Playing Live Music in Music Therapy/Occupational Therapy Co-treatment on Unilateral Spatial Neglect

NCT ID: NCT02919722

Last Updated: 2020-08-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 20 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2019-12-19

Brief Summary

Investigators hypothesize, based on anecdotal evidence to date, that active music making interventions conducted on a patient's neglected side will result in improved attention to that side and that this will be measurable within session.

Detailed Description

An open, single group of ten patients selected will receive a 30 minute music therapy/occupational therapy co-treatment intervention. Music interventions will be performed by a licensed, Board-Certified Music Therapist while a licensed Occupational Therapist will provide support, assistance, and measurements of behavioral attention/inattention. At the outset of the first session patients will be briefly, informally interviewed to ascertain their musical preferences, which will then be integrated into the music therapist's interventions whenever possible to maximize engagement and therapeutic rapport. Live music will be provided on the patient's neglected side and patients will be encouraged to play music interactively with a focus towards that side whenever possible. An outcome measurement tool (Star Cancellation Test) will be focused on measuring hemispheric neglect and administered at the beginning and end of each session to measure within session changes.

Conditions

Unilateral Spatial Neglect (USN)

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Music interventions

Live music will be provided on the patient's neglected side and patients will be encouraged to play music interactively with a focus towards that side whenever possible

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Music Therapy

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The majority of each study session will be spent engaging in music therapy: playing live music with a music therapist with the help of an occupational therapist. At the beginning and end of each session subjects will complete 2 assessments.

Interventions

Music Therapy

The majority of each study session will be spent engaging in music therapy: playing live music with a music therapist with the help of an occupational therapist. At the beginning and end of each session subjects will complete 2 assessments.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients experiencing unilateral left spatial neglect post brain injury (stroke, TBI, N-TBI).
• Patients able to follow two step commands and maintain attention to task for five minutes in a quiet environment.
• Patients must be able to hold a pencil to complete the SCT
• Patients must be able to discriminate between distractor items (words versus big and small stars) and see items in picture cards
• Patients communicate willingness to participate in music therapy interventions.
• Admission to acute inpatient rehabilitation unit at NYU/HJD.
• Patient will have the ability to provide informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

• Visual impairment.
• Right side or dominant hand impairment.
• Any social or medical problem that precludes completion of the protocol.
• Patients who have sensory neglect or motor neglect , as the SCT cannot be used with this population
• Severe language comprehension impairment

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

NYU Langone Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Brian Im, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

New York University Medical School

Locations

New York University School of Medicine

New York, New York, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

16-00189

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id