NCT03759171

Music-instruction Intervention for Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Music-instruction Intervention for Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility and potential effectiveness of an active, music-instruction intervention in improving psychological health and social functioning among Veterans suffering from moderate to severe Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Detailed description

The study was designed as a prospective, delayed-entry randomized pilot trial. Regression-adjusted difference in means were used to examine the intervention's effectiveness with respect to PTSD symptomatology (primary outcome) as well as depression, perceptions of cognitive failures, social functioning and isolation, and health-related quality of life (secondary outcomes).

Conditions

• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Guitars for Vets Intervention	This was an active intervention providing veterans with an acoustic guitar, guitar pick, tuning instruments, a music book, practice CDs, and individual and group sessions of music instruction during a 6-week intervention period. Six tailored 1-hour individual guitar instruction sessions were scheduled (1 session per week). In addition to the 6 tailored individual lessons, the intervention provided 3 group sessions. Veterans were given a guitar that they could keep upon completion of the program. The same instructor was assigned to a subject for the duration of the study, and group sessions were supervised by the Education Director of Guitars for Vets.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-10-01
• Primary completion: 2011-09-30
• Completion: 2011-09-30
• First posted: 2018-11-29
• Last updated: 2018-11-29