Telehealth Music Therapy for Depression
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
The goal of this clinical trial is to explore if a telehealth music therapy intervention helps with quality of life, depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms. It will also explore the participants' relationship to music. The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Refine and tailor the music therapy intervention to fit the specific needs of adults living with an autoimmune disease and depression.
* Examine the feasibility of the study protocol to support a future full-scale trial
* Examine how music therapy impacts quality of life, depression symptoms, and anxiety symptoms
* Explore how music therapy impacts one's relationship to music
Participants will:
* have a short interview to fill out a questionnaire with some basic information, answers about depression, quality of life, and potential anxiety, and a question about how they feel about music at the start and end of the sessions
* attend 8 weekly sessions, approximately 30-45 minutes each, with a board certified music therapist over telehealth/Zoom
* answer a few questions about the music therapy intervention
Who Is on the Research Team?
Melody Schwantes, PhD, MT-BC
Principal Investigator
Appalachian State University
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
This trial is for adults aged 18-65 who have both depression and an autoimmune endocrine disorder (like Type 1 diabetes, Graves disease, or Hashimoto's). Participants need to be able to use Zoom with a device that has camera and audio.Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- Telehealth Resource Oriented Music Therapy
Trial Overview
The study tests if weekly telehealth music therapy sessions can improve quality of life, depression, anxiety, and participants' relationship with music. Sessions are held online with a certified music therapist over eight weeks.
How Is the Trial Designed?
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Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
10 participants will receive the telehealth music therapy intervention. This is an 8-week study utilizing a resource-oriented approach keeping the principles of empowerment philosophy, self-determination, collaboration, recovery-oriented or salutogenesis ways of working, and utilizing music as a health resource.
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
Appalachian State University
Lead Sponsor
Meredith Wilson Foundation
Collaborator
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Collaborator
University of California, San Francisco
Collaborator
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