Effectiveness of Thai Northeastern Folk Musical Therapy for Blood Pressure Control in Hypertensive Patients

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Musical Therapy as a Complementary Treatment of Hypertension
• Interventions: Other: instrumental folk music

• Registration Number: NCT03381820
• Lead Sponsor: Khon Kaen University

Brief Summary

A randomized controlled trial was conducted in a tertiary care hospital, Khon Kaen province, Thailand. Sixty participants were randomized to music listening group and control group. The music listening group was assigned to listen to 30-minute instrumental folk music everyday for one month. Home BP and office BP were monitored and recorded.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-11-23
• Primary Completion: 2016-05-31
• Status Verified: 2017-12
• Study Completion: 2017-12-17
• Study First Submitted: 2017-12-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-12-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-12-20
• Study First Posted: 2017-12-22
• Last Update Posted: 2017-12-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

• 40-80 years old
• Diagnosed stage-2 hypertension (HT) (defined by office systolic blood pressure >= 140mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure >= 90 mm Hg at first hospital visit)

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant women, white-coat HT, secondary HT and hearing loss or blind.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
music listening	instrumental folk music	Participants who were randomized into intervention group were assigned to listen to the music everyday (day 1st to day 30th), at anytime of day that was suitable with their lifestyles but not at the time of BP measurement. During day 31st -120th, participants did not listen to the music. Other treatment was the same as the control arm.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from baseline of home systolic and diastolic blood pressure at day 30th	Day 0th (baseline) to day 30th.	Home blood pressure of participant was monitored and recorded.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from baseline of office systolic and diastolic blood pressure at day 120th	Day 0th and day 120th	Office blood pressure was measured at day 0th (baseline) and at day 120th (3-month follow up).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Emergency Medicine, Khon Kaen University; 🇹🇭 Khon Kaen, Muang, Thailand