NCT06516666

Psychophysiological Effects of Music

Psychophysiological Effects of Music on Sadness in Depressed and Non-Depressed Participants

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 149 (actual)
• Sponsor: Zhejiang University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study employed a repeated measure between-subjects design. Two groups (i.e., depressed group and non-depressed group) of participants were recruited. Each participant experienced four stages: baseline, neutral control, sadness induction, and music intervention. The outcome variables were self-reported emotion and Heart Rate Variability features. Emotions were reported at the end of every stage. Electrocardiogram signals were recorded throughout the experiment.

Conditions

• Sadness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Music	Participants went through four stages. In the rest stage, they were instructed to relax. In the neutral control stage, they watched an informative video about plastic injection molding. In the sadness induction stage, they viewed sad clips from either Hachi: A Dog's Tale or My Brother and Sister, with the order randomized across participants. In the music intervention stage, they listened to the cheerful Cuckoo Waltz. Each stage lasted for about 6 minutes. The interventions for the two groups were exactly same. PS: On the basis of the PHQ-9, this HAMD interview was conducted to further group the participants. So, following the experimental protocol, participants who scored ≥ 5 on the PHQ-9 measure underwent the HAMD interview, while the remaining individuals were simply interviewed about their feelings during the experiment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-18
• Primary completion: 2023-06-20
• Completion: 2023-06-20
• First posted: 2024-07-24
• Last updated: 2024-07-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China