Resource-oriented Music Therapy for Psychiatric Patients With Low Therapy Motivation

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mental Disorders; Personality Disorders; Schizophrenia and Disorders With Psychotic Features; Mood Disorders
• Interventions: Procedure: Resource-oriented music therapy; Procedure: Standard care

• Registration Number: NCT00137189
• Lead Sponsor: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to examine whether resource-oriented music therapy helps psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation to improve negative symptoms and other health-related outcomes.

Detailed Description

Background: Previous research has shown positive effects of music therapy for people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders. In clinical practice, music therapy is often offered to psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation, but little research exists about this population. The aim of this study is to examine whether resource-oriented music therapy helps psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation to improve negative symptoms and other health-related outcomes. An additional aim of the study is to examine the mechanisms of change through music therapy.

Method: 144 adults with a non-organic mental disorder (ICD-10: F1 to F6) who have low therapy motivation and a willingness to work with music will be randomly assigned to an experimental or a control condition. All participants will receive standard care, and the experimental group will in addition be offered biweekly sessions of music therapy over a period of three months. Outcomes will be measured by a blind assessor before and 1, 3, and 9 months after randomisation.

Discussion: The findings to be expected from this study will fill an important gap in the knowledge of treatment effects for a patient group that does not easily benefit from treatment. The study's close link to clinical practice, as well as its size and comprehensiveness, will make its results well generalisable to clinical practice.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-04
• Study First Submitted: 2005-08-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2005-08-26
• Study First Posted: 2005-08-29
• Primary Completion: 2010-10
• Study Completion: 2010-10
• Status Verified: 2017-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-05-12
• Last Update Posted: 2017-05-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 144

Inclusion Criteria

• Non-organic mental disorder
• Low therapy motivation
• Willingness to work with music

Exclusion Criteria

• Severe mental retardation
• Life-threatening somatic illness

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Music therapy	Resource-oriented music therapy	See published study protocol
Music therapy	Standard care	See published study protocol
Standard care	Standard care	See published study protocol

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
negative symptoms (Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms [SANS])	9 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
interest in music	9 months
vitality	9 months
motivation for change	9 months
general symptoms	9 months
clinical global impressions	9 months
affect regulation	9 months
relational competence	9 months
self-esteem	9 months
general functioning	9 months
self-efficacy	9 months
actual social relationships	9 months

Trial Locations

Locations (5)

Sunshine Hospital/University of Melbourne, Faculty of Music; 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia

Nordfjord Psychiatry Centre; 🇳🇴 Nordfjordeid, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Stavanger University Hospital; 🇳🇴 Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

Wagner Jauregg Hospital; 🇦🇹 Linz, Austria

Jæren District Psychiatric Centre; 🇳🇴 Bryne, Rogaland, Norway