NCT05603767

Effects of Receptive Music Therapy Combined With Virtual Reality on Prevalent Symptoms in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Effects of Receptive Music Therapy Combined With Virtual Reality on Prevailing Symptoms in Patients With Advanced Cancer

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Austral University, Argentina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The present research seeks to determine whether a single responsive music therapy intervention combined with virtual reality (RMT+VR) reduces prevalent symptoms and improves their overall well-being in hospitalized adult patients with advanced oncologic disease receiving palliative care. This is a prospective study of a randomized clinical trial with a control group. The main variables are pain, exhaustion, drowsiness, nausea, loss of appetite, dyspnea, depression, anxiety, sleep and well-being as well as heart rate.

Detailed description

Music therapy has been shown to be effective in hospitalized patients, reducing the level of stress and anxiety, lowering tension, regulating breathing and relieving pain. However, despite the fact that there are many precedents of this type in palliative care, the quality of the evidence is low. The present research seeks to determine whether a single responsive music therapy intervention combined with virtual reality (RMT+VR) reduces prevalent symptoms and improves their overall well-being in hospitalized adult patients with advanced oncologic disease receiving palliative care. This is a prospective study of a randomized clinical trial with a control group. The main variables are pain, exhaustion, drowsiness, nausea, loss of appetite, dyspnea, depression, anxiety, sleep and well-being as well as heart rate. The duration of the study will be 48 hours. After signing the informed consent, patients will be randomized on the first day receiving RMT+VR, or no intervention at all. The variables will be measured on three occasions, before and after each condition, and 24 hours later.

Conditions

• Music Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	RMT+ VR	(RMT+ VR). The responsive music therapy session combined with virtual reality involves four stages: a) Background settings; b) VR video and music selection; c) Listening experience and VR; and e) Return to alert status. The therapist will help the patient to select the video to be used for the experience. Utilizing the application created by the research team, the patient will be provided with four possible scenarios. As for the music, patients are asked to choose music that relaxes them the most. Chosen music can be instrumental music (guitar, electric piano or violin) or sung music with harmonic accompaniment (piano or guitar). In both cases the music will be played live.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-19
• Primary completion: 2022-10-11
• Completion: 2023-10-11
• First posted: 2022-11-03
• Last updated: 2022-11-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Argentina