Audio-enhanced Analgesia in Healthy Subjects
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Healthy
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Enhanced AudioBehavioral: Audio
- Registration Number
- NCT01835275
- Lead Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether enhanced audio methods can be used to improve analgesia for experimental pain in healthy subjects.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
- 18-50 years old
- Healthy
Exclusion Criteria
- Current diagnoses of psychiatric or neurological disorders or chronic pain
- BDI-II score greater than 13
- current or previous ear/nose/throat or hearing issues
- prior participation in pain studies
- previous advanced music training
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Music conditioning Audio Subjects are tested with music, sound, and silence, after conditioning to enhance music induced analgesia Music conditioning Enhanced Audio Subjects are tested with music, sound, and silence, after conditioning to enhance music induced analgesia Sound Audio Subjects are tested with music, sound, and silence, after conditioning to enhance sound induced analgesia Sound Enhanced Audio Subjects are tested with music, sound, and silence, after conditioning to enhance sound induced analgesia
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain Intensity and Unpleasantness 1.5 hour testing session 0-100 Visual Analog Scales to rate subjective pain intensity and unpleasentness
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Hospital
🇺🇸Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States