Assessment of Music Experiences in Navigating Depression

NCT ID: NCT06924892

Last Updated: 2025-10-17

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 84 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-04-05
• Study Completion Date: 2025-03-30

Brief Summary

The study team sought to scientifically investigate strategic subsets of depressed individuals or people prone to or at-risk of depression through music experiences of individual, group, and blended supported contexts. Meetings with the study multi-disciplinary team, included member of the Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute and University affiliates, where the study team gathered quantitative and qualitative data in individual and group forums, measuring disease process and levels of participation. Through tabulation of participatory options with standardized depression and resilience measurements, the study team studied how live music could alter depressive symptoms over time and/ or change negative influencers of mood, shift quality of life, and lead toward possibly enhanced disease trajectory outcomes.

Conditions

Depression

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Music Therapy

Music therapy session for 3 months once a week

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Music therapy

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Independent music therapy 45-minute sessions provided weekly for 3 months

Wellness Concerts

Participants attended wellness concerts.

Group Type: OTHER

Wellness Concerts

Intervention Type: OTHER

Wellness Concerts provided at partner sites (Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute, Cooper Union College, Third Street Music Settlement).

Interventions

Music therapy

Independent music therapy 45-minute sessions provided weekly for 3 months

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Wellness Concerts

Wellness Concerts provided at partner sites (Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute, Cooper Union College, Third Street Music Settlement).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

Music

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Participants between the ages of 8-70 years with a clinical diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder (MOD) who met the DSM-5 (2013) criteria for a Major Depressive Episode, and/or who identify themselves, or are identified by family, or referring clinicians as depressed, or are prone to depression
• Depressive episodes and/or showing symptoms of mild to moderate depression intensity
• Self-reported satisfactory bilateral hearing
• English or Spanish language fluency sufficient to complete the interviews and questionnaires

Exclusion Criteria

• Axis I diagnosis, aside from MOD, considered the primary diagnosis
• Bipolar Disorder Type I or II,
• Axis II diagnosis such as antisocial or borderline.
• Arrhythmia,
• Pacemaker
• Prolapsed vertebral disc, and
• Recent back or neck injuries.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Cooper Union College

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Third Street Music Settlement

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Joanne Loewy

Professor/Director

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Joanne Loewy

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Locations

Mount Sinai Union Square

New York, New York, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

1909623-38

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

STUDY-22-01609

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id