NCT06993272

Relaxation Music for Chronic Pain

Relaxation Music for Patients With Chronic Pain From IBS, Crohn's, or Colitis

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Irvine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic pain is a common complaint in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Compounding these concerns, opioid analgesics are frequently used to treat severe acute pain. An estimated 30% of chronic pain patients due to IBD report opioid use. Those who continue to use opioids can develop opioid misuse, and opioid misuse portends addiction and overdose so there is a need for better, non-addictive treatment options. Music interventions effectively reduce pain and pain-related symptomology. Meta-analytic results indicate listening to music can reduce acute and chronic pain. Music listening also decreases emotional distress from pain as well as the use of pain medication. Music interventions have demonstrated these positive effects on pain across a number of settings, including surgical, in-patient, and community settings. Importantly, due to the ubiquity of music - especially freely available online music - music interventions are easily accessible and highly scalable.

Conditions

• IBS - Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• IBD - Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	MIndful Jazz	Mindful Jazz Group: Participants in this group will watch an introduction to jazz appreciation and mindfulness training video, including the use of jazz for pain tolerance prior to the 4-week intervention. Participants in the Mindful Jazz Group will be informed that listening to music they are not comfortable with (i.e., jazz) can enhance long-term pain tolerance.
BEHAVIORAL	Reggae Stereotypes	Reggae Stereotype Group: Participants in this group will be told about he stereotype of reggae in making people more calm. They will listen to reggae music over the 4 weeks.
BEHAVIORAL	Traditional Mindfulness	Participants will listen to a traditional mindfulness practice over the 4 weeks
BEHAVIORAL	Pain psychoeducation	Participants listen to an audio recording of the pain psychoeducation video they watch during training over the 4 weeks. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwEQXh5enA

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-20
• Primary completion: 2026-02-20
• Completion: 2026-03-01
• First posted: 2025-05-28
• Last updated: 2026-02-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States