The Role of Music in Palliative Care: A Proposal for a Rural Based Initiative in Music Based Interventions

Sponsor

Nova Scotia Health Authority (Other)

Overall Status

Unknown status

CT.gov ID

NCT02661880

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Arm

Duration (Days)

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Current practice in larger palliative care centers offer many supportive service modalities, which are often unavailable in the rural setting. Music Therapy by experienced registered Music Therapists is an example of such a modality. The current evidence continues to grow, identifying Music Therapy's benefits to help with symptom relief as well as to improve Quality of Life in many aspects of medicine, but especially in the context of palliative care. This proposal outlines an initiative to provide music-based interventions in a rural community palliative care unit where there is limited availability to a registered Music Therapist.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Improved Emotional Regulation Improvement in Quality of Life Symptom Relief Preservation of Dignity Existential Solace Relief of Suffering Emotional Regulation Quality of Life Dignity	Behavioral: preferred music	N/A

Detailed Description

Study participants in the pilot phase will include patients admitted to the Aberdeen Hospital Palliative Care Unit. Patients excluded from participating would include those unwilling to participate for any reason. All patients will be invited to complete the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire - Revised (McGill QOL-R) upon admission to the unit. The Questionnaire will not be part of the permanent medical record and the participants will remain anonymous. Afterwards participants will be asked if they would like to listen to music during their stay in the hospital. Music will be selected according to their choices from an i-Tunes playlist. Participants will be invited to listen to music at their own discretion. Prior to discharge from the hospital or after 3 days all willing patients will be again invited to complete the McGill QOL-R questionnaire. The participants will remain anonymous, but will be identified as to whether they listened or did not listen to music during their hospitalization.

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Anticipated Enrollment :

30 participants

Allocation:

N/A

Intervention Model:

Single Group Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Supportive Care

Official Title:

The Role of Music in Palliative Care: A Proposal for a Rural Based Initiative in Music Based Interventions

Study Start Date :

Apr 1, 2016

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Apr 1, 2016

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

May 1, 2016

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: listening to preferred music choices All patients will be invited to complete the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire - Revised (McGill QOL-R) upon admission to the unit. The Questionnaire will not be part of the permanent medical record and the participants will remain anonymous. Afterwards participants will be asked if they would like to listen to music during their stay in the hospital. Music will be selected according to their choices from an i-Tunes playlist. Participants will be invited to listen to music at their own discretion. Prior to discharge from the hospital or after 3 days all willing participants will be again invited to complete the McGill QOL-R questionnaire.	Behavioral: preferred music listening to preferred music choices

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Experimental: listening to preferred music choices

All patients will be invited to complete the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire - Revised (McGill QOL-R) upon admission to the unit. The Questionnaire will not be part of the permanent medical record and the participants will remain anonymous. Afterwards participants will be asked if they would like to listen to music during their stay in the hospital. Music will be selected according to their choices from an i-Tunes playlist. Participants will be invited to listen to music at their own discretion. Prior to discharge from the hospital or after 3 days all willing participants will be again invited to complete the McGill QOL-R questionnaire.

Behavioral: preferred music

listening to preferred music choices

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Quality of Life-using the McGill QOL-revised questionnaire [within 3 months of data collection]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

N/A and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

patients admitted to the Aberdeen Hospital Palliative Care Unit.

Exclusion Criteria:

those patients unwilling to participate for any reason

Contacts and Locations

Locations

No locations specified.

Sponsors and Collaborators

Nova Scotia Health Authority

Investigators

Principal Investigator: Anne M Kwasnik-Krawczyk, Dalhousie University

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Anne Kwasnik-Krawczyk, Palliative Care Physician, Nova Scotia Health Authority

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT02661880

Other Study ID Numbers:

Music in Palliative Care

First Posted:

Jan 25, 2016

Last Update Posted:

Jan 25, 2016

Last Verified:

Jan 1, 2016

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:

Plan to Share IPD:

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Jan 25, 2016