The Effects of Music on ANS and Anxiety in Healthy Elderly and Persons With SCD

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

15 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-04-15

Study Completion Date

2019-12-31

Brief Summary

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Subjective cognition decline (SCD) is considered as a risk factor of dementia and associates not only with further cognition deterioration but with a higher anxiety level. Anxiety may lead to decreasing cognitive function and negative impacts on the well-being and quality of life. To avoid these consequences, reducing anxiety is an important step to treat SCD. To ease anxious emotions, music has been viewed as an effective, safe and easy alternative to medication. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of music on reducing the anxiety of the healthy elderly and SCD and further to compare the anxiety level between SCD and healthy controls.

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Detailed Description

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Single subject pretest-posttest design was used. 12 SCD subjects was recruited from the memory clinic and 12 healthy controls from the community. The anxiety level was assessed both by self-reports (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Visual Analogue Scale of Anxiety) and by objective measurements related to autonomic nervous system activities (heart rate variability and electrodermal activity). The participants underwent a memory task to induce anxiety. Next, preferred music and white noise were provided in random order. The anxiety level and the effects of music intervention between SCD and healthy controls will be further compared.

Conditions

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Dementia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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SCD subjects

Patients were diagnosed with subjective cognition decline and referred by neurologists.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Music

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects sit still and listen to preferred music for 5 minutes.

White noise

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects sit still and listen to white noise for 5 minutes.

Healthy controls

Voluntary healthy elderly recruited from the community.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Music

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects sit still and listen to preferred music for 5 minutes.

White noise

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects sit still and listen to white noise for 5 minutes.

Interventions

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Music

Subjects sit still and listen to preferred music for 5 minutes.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

White noise

Subjects sit still and listen to white noise for 5 minutes.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* able to read and write Mandarin
* the scores of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) ≥ 24

Exclusion Criteria

* cognitive status was affected by psychic problems, neurological disease or other conditions
* people with auditory and visual impairments
* people with obesity (BMI ≥ 27) or diabetes mellitus.

Minimum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes