"Receptive Music Intervention for the Abatement of Anxiety for In-patients Diagnosed With Unipolar Depression Who Receive Standard ECT Treatment". (ECT: Electroconvulsive Therapy).
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 24
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y1)
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess whether music listening is helpful in lowering anxiety in patients about to start their ECT treatment.
Detailed Description
In-patients at a psychiatric hospital referred to ECT treatment, is offered to participate in the study investigating whether listening to expert-curated playlists before-, during and after ECT treatment is helpful as a non-pharmacological intervention in lowering patients anxiety.
After written informed consent, participants will be randomised into two groups, one listening to playlists with music, one listening to sounds from nature (e.g. rain, ocean waves). Playlists will be administered by tablet+earphones in the waiting room, tablet+speaker in the room of procedure and tablet+bedside speaker in the recovery room.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- None
Masking Description
All participants are given a tablet with two playlists to choose from in each arm. Either two playlists with nature sounds, or two playlists with music.
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Capable in-patients of age at Aalborg University Hospital, Psychiatry - departments S7
- •S8, diagnosed with unipolar or bipolar depression, referred to ECT treatment.
- •patients assessed to fit the study, by the head of departments S7 & S8
- •Voluntary participation in the study after written informed consent.
- •Patients can withdraw their consent at any point during the treatment trajectory.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients not compliant with the study, as assessed by head of departments
- •Non-capable patients
- •Patients who withdraw their written informed consent
- •Patients using hearing aid
- •Patients with former ECT treatment experience
- •Patients who receive acute ECT Treatment
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y1)
Time Frame: First week of ECT treatment
Measurement of patient anxiety before their first-, and before their second ECT procedure. Patients report of anxiety before their ECT treatment and therefore their anxiety is measured in validated STAI-Y1 questionnaire the evening before the first and before the second ECT procedure.
Secondary Outcomes
- State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y1)(First four weeks of treatment.)
Investigators
Lars Rye Bertelsen
External Lecturer
Aalborg University