NCT04706728

Music Listening to Lower Anxiety During ECT Treatment.

"Receptive Music Intervention for the Abatement of Anxiety for In-patients Diagnosed With Unipolar Depression Who Receive Standard ECT Treatment". (ECT: Electroconvulsive Therapy).

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aalborg University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess whether music listening is helpful in lowering anxiety in patients about to start their ECT treatment.

Detailed description

In-patients at a psychiatric hospital referred to ECT treatment, is offered to participate in the study investigating whether listening to expert-curated playlists before-, during and after ECT treatment is helpful as a non-pharmacological intervention in lowering patients anxiety. After written informed consent, participants will be randomised into two groups, one listening to playlists with music, one listening to sounds from nature (e.g. rain, ocean waves). Playlists will be administered by tablet+earphones in the waiting room, tablet+speaker in the room of procedure and tablet+bedside speaker in the recovery room.

Conditions

• Anxiety State

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure	Patients choose between two expert-curated playlists with music one day prior to ECT procedures for the first four weeks of their ECT treatment.
OTHER	Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure	Patients choose between two expert-curated playlists with music one day prior to ECT procedures for the first two weeks of their ECT treatment.
OTHER	Listening to playlists with sound from nature (rain, waves) prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure	Patients choose between two expert-curated playlists with sounds from nature one day prior to ECT procedures for the first two weeks of their ECT treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-01
• Completion: 2023-09-01
• First posted: 2021-01-13
• Last updated: 2024-09-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark