Music Against Psychological Pain in Suicide

NCT ID: NCT04085848

Last Updated: 2025-07-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 264 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-02-25
• Study Completion Date: 2026-05-31

Brief Summary

This study compares the efficacy of music therapy associated with standard care versus the standard care alone on the psychological pain in suicidal patients.

Detailed Description

Music therapy consists of using the Music Care tool. Each patient randomized in the music therapy arm should perform 4 music therapy sessions of 30 minutes on 48h.

Before and after each music therapy sessions, the psychological pain will be measured by the analogical visual scale.

Standard care consists of a medical and paramedical interview lasting 20-30 minutes. At the end of the interview, a drug treatment (BZD anxiolytic and/or hypnotic) is prescribed and the patient is hospitalized. During hospitalization, patient is regularly interviewed in order to evaluate his psychological status.

Conditions

Suicide, Attempted; Suicidal Ideation

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Groupe intervention

Usual care and music therapy

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

music therapy

Intervention Type: OTHER

4 music therapy sessions during a period of time of 48 hours. Each session lasts 30 minutes.

Groupe contrôle

Usual care

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

music therapy

4 music therapy sessions during a period of time of 48 hours. Each session lasts 30 minutes.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patient with suicidal ideas, thoughts or surviving suicide attempt
• Patient whose emergency somatic management lasted less than 48h
• Patient who, according to the physician, is still in suicidal mood
• Patient admitted in the psychiatric hospitalization unit of the Public Mental Health Establishment
• Patient with voluntary admission and agrees to stay in hospital from 48h to 60h
• Patient able to write and read in french
• Patient affiliated to a social security scheme
• Patient who gives his Informed consent before any procedure related to the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient with attempt suicide requiring a somatic care (intensive, surgery, gastric lavage...)
• Patient with medical history of audiogenic and/or musicogenic epilepsy
• Patient with major impairment of hearing function
• Patient unable to support the headhset earphone
• Patient with contra indication to BZD, hypnotics (Zopiclone) or requiring more sedative and/or psychotic drugs
• Patient under guardianship or under judicial protection
• Patient hospitalized at the request of a third party or ex officio

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

Sponsors

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Erick GOKALSING

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

EPSMR

Locations

Etablissement Public de Santé Mentale de La Réunion

Saint-Paul, , Reunion

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Reunion

Central Contacts

Emilie TECHER

Role: CONTACT

emilie.techer@chu-reunion.fr

+2 62 262 90 62 89

Facility Contacts

Erick GOKALSING

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

2017/CHU/19

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id