NCT03683420

Music in Reducing Distress in Participants with Cancer During Chemotherapy Treatment

Using Music As a Tool for Distress Reduction During Cancer Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This trial studies how well music works in reducing distress in participants with cancer during chemotherapy treatment. Music in participants receiving cancer treatment such as infusion treatment and caregiver may reduce pain, anxiety, and distress and improve participant's psychological and physiological wellbeing.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To test the effect of patients? listening to music on level of distress during cancer treatment. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To explore the influence of covariates (patients? sociodemographics, musical background, and clinical variables) on the association between patients? listening to music and level of distress during cancer treatment. II. To explore the interdependence of adjustment among patients and their caregivers on the association between. OUTLINE: Participants and caregivers are randomized to 1 of 2 groups. GROUP I: Participants and caregivers listen to music of their choice for up to 60 minutes during infusion session. GROUP II: Participants and caregivers do not listen to music during infusion session and are placed on music waitlist.

Conditions

• Caregiver
• Malignant Neoplasm

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Music Therapy	The intervention consists of using an iPod to listen to music for up to 60 minutes while patients are receiving chemo infusion. There are no on components to the study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-14
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2018-09-25
• Last updated: 2025-01-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States