NCT03676491

Music to Improve Sleep Quality in Adults With Depression and Insomnia

Music to Improve Sleep Quality in Adults With Depression and Insomnia: a Randomized Controlled Trial Using Mixed Methods

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 112 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aalborg University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Insomnia is a common sleep disorder for patients with depression. This has a major impact on the quality of life for the individual. The aim is to investigate, whether music intervention is effective in 1. improving sleep quality, 2. reducing symptoms of depression and 3. improving quality of life Participants use a sound pillow and selected music in the The Music Star app at home as a sleep aid in 4 weeks.

Detailed description

Depression is a common health problem in Denmark with a prevalence for depression of 17-18%. Depression has serious personal and social consequence. Sleep disorders are common in patients with depression. Resolving sleep disturbances in depression may prevent worsening of symptoms and relapse. Music listening is widely used as a sleep aid. A study from the Cochrane library shows consensus that music may be helpful to improve sleep quality in insomnia. It remains unclear if music listening is helpful to patients with depression as it is to a broader population. A randomized controlled trial address the use of music as a supplementary treatment to improve sleep in depression.

Conditions

• Insomnia
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music Intervention	Music intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-23
• Primary completion: 2020-12-23
• Completion: 2020-12-23
• First posted: 2018-09-18
• Last updated: 2020-12-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark