Relaxation Music for Chronic Pain

NCT ID: NCT06993272

Last Updated: 2025-05-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 120 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-04-20
• Study Completion Date: 2025-08-01

Brief Summary

Chronic pain is a common complaint in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Compounding these concerns, opioid analgesics are frequently used to treat severe acute pain. An estimated 30% of chronic pain patients due to IBD report opioid use. Those who continue to use opioids can develop opioid misuse, and opioid misuse portends addiction and overdose so there is a need for better, non-addictive treatment options.

Music interventions effectively reduce pain and pain-related symptomology. Meta-analytic results indicate listening to music can reduce acute and chronic pain. Music listening also decreases emotional distress from pain as well as the use of pain medication. Music interventions have demonstrated these positive effects on pain across a number of settings, including surgical, in-patient, and community settings. Importantly, due to the ubiquity of music - especially freely available online music - music interventions are easily accessible and highly scalable.

Conditions

IBS - Irritable Bowel Syndrome; IBD - Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Study Design

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

Study Groups

MIndful Jazz

Participants in this group will watch an introduction to jazz appreciation and mindfulness training video, including the use of jazz for pain tolerance prior to the 4-week intervention. Participants in the Mindful Jazz Group will be informed that listening to music they are not comfortable with (i.e., jazz) can enhance long-term pain tolerance.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

MIndful Jazz

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Mindful Jazz Group: Participants in this group will watch an introduction to jazz appreciation and mindfulness training video, including the use of jazz for pain tolerance prior to the 4-week intervention. Participants in the Mindful Jazz Group will be informed that listening to music they are not comfortable with (i.e., jazz) can enhance long-term pain tolerance.

Reggae Stereotypes

Reggae Stereotype Group: Participants in this group will be told about he stereotype of reggae in making people more calm. They will listen to reggae music over the 4 weeks.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Reggae Stereotypes

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Reggae Stereotype Group: Participants in this group will be told about he stereotype of reggae in making people more calm. They will listen to reggae music over the 4 weeks.

Traditional Mindfulness

Participants in this group will listen to a traditional mindfulness practice over the 4 weeks

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Traditional Mindfulness

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants will listen to a traditional mindfulness practice over the 4 weeks

Pain Psychoeducation

Participants listen to the same playlist each week of the 4-weeks. It's an audio recording of the pain psychoeducation video they watch during training. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwEQXh5enA

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Pain psychoeducation

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants listen to an audio recording of the pain psychoeducation video they watch during training over the 4 weeks. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwEQXh5enA

Interventions

MIndful Jazz

Mindful Jazz Group: Participants in this group will watch an introduction to jazz appreciation and mindfulness training video, including the use of jazz for pain tolerance prior to the 4-week intervention. Participants in the Mindful Jazz Group will be informed that listening to music they are not comfortable with (i.e., jazz) can enhance long-term pain tolerance.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Reggae Stereotypes

Reggae Stereotype Group: Participants in this group will be told about he stereotype of reggae in making people more calm. They will listen to reggae music over the 4 weeks.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Traditional Mindfulness

Participants will listen to a traditional mindfulness practice over the 4 weeks

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Pain psychoeducation

Participants listen to an audio recording of the pain psychoeducation video they watch during training over the 4 weeks. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwEQXh5enA

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 or older
• Living in U.S.
• Have a pain rating related to IBS, Crohn's, or Colitis of five or greater in average pain on a 0-10 numeric rating scale in the preceding week
• Have had pain related to IBS, Crohn's, or Colitis for at least 3 months and for at least 15 days in the preceding 30 days
• GAD Score (Moderate to Severe Anxiety)

Exclusion Criteria

• Are currently using or have used prescription opioids in the past 3 months
• Have a current cancer diagnosis
• In one of our prior music studies
• Have formal experience with mindfulness

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

Sponsors

University of California, Irvine

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sean D Young

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

University of California Irvine

Orange, California, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

5116

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id