NCT04085848

Music Against Psychological Pain in Suicide

A Controlled, Randomized Study Evaluating the Effecacy of Receptive Music Therapy on Psychological Pain in Suicidal Patients

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 264 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study compares the efficacy of music therapy associated with standard care versus the standard care alone on the psychological pain in suicidal patients.

Detailed description

Music therapy consists of using the Music Care tool. Each patient randomized in the music therapy arm should perform 4 music therapy sessions of 30 minutes on 48h. Before and after each music therapy sessions, the psychological pain will be measured by the analogical visual scale. Standard care consists of a medical and paramedical interview lasting 20-30 minutes. At the end of the interview, a drug treatment (BZD anxiolytic and/or hypnotic) is prescribed and the patient is hospitalized. During hospitalization, patient is regularly interviewed in order to evaluate his psychological status.

Conditions

• Suicide, Attempted
• Suicidal Ideation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	music therapy	4 music therapy sessions during a period of time of 48 hours. Each session lasts 30 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-25
• Primary completion: 2026-05-01
• Completion: 2026-05-01
• First posted: 2019-09-11
• Last updated: 2025-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Reunion