NCT05727514

Beyond COVID-19: Supporting Resilience With a Trauma-informed Music Composition Program

A Trauma-Informed Music Composition Program Supporting Resilience in Individuals Hospitalized During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of a music composition intervention to support resilience in survivors of serious illness hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Detailed description

This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of a music composition intervention to support resilience in survivors of serious illness hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic introduced widespread trauma for patients facing hospitalization. Therapeutic music interventions have demonstrated positive psychological effects, but none have explored the specific trauma-informed aspects of a composition-mentor program, as well as the specific impact of music composition on resilience-related traits. Researchers implemented an adapted version of the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers program (VYC): trained composer-mentors guide participants through four web-based sessions to elicit and develop participants' unique musical ideas into finished compositions. Participants are then invited to view a string quartet performance of their compositions. The Brief Resilience Scale \[BRS\] and New General Self-Efficacy Scale \[NGSE\] are administered pre-intervention, post-intervention, and post-performance.

Conditions

• Problems Related to Life-Management Difficulty

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	music composition	4-session music composition program for participants lead by a composer-mentor, includes optional viewing of online string quartet performances of final musical scores

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-22
• Primary completion: 2022-11-30
• Completion: 2023-02-01
• First posted: 2023-02-14
• Last updated: 2023-03-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States