NCT04198038

Family-Centered Songwriting in Pediatric Palliative Care

A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Feasibility of Family-Centered Songwriting in Pediatric Palliative Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vanderbilt University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the feasibility and efficacy of a family-centered songwriting intervention for cognitively-impaired children referred to a palliative care service.

Detailed description

Music-based interventions have previously been shown to reduce psychological distress in children with life-threatening conditions. However, children with cognitive impairment are frequently excluded from these studies. Our study will evaluate the efficacy a family-centered songwriting intervention for the following outcomes: child psychological and physical symptoms, parent psychological distress, and family environment. Following recruitment, parent-child dyads will undergo 4 sessions with a licensed music therapist (anticipated to last 1 hour each). During these sessions, families and their children will select a song and engage in a songwriting process which includes various physiologic sounds from the child (i.e. heart rate, breathing). At the conclusion of these four sessions, a music DVD will be produced and delivered to the family.

Conditions

• Cognitive Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Songwriting with licensed music therapist	Song selected by parent-child dyad with recordings of physiologic components (i.e. heartbeat, breathing)

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-11
• Primary completion: 2021-06-30
• Completion: 2021-06-30
• First posted: 2019-12-13
• Last updated: 2021-09-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States