The Effects of Music Therapy as a Complementary Intervention in the Treatment of Pediatric Asthma

NCT02201836 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 142-04
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 200
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The onset of asthma is particularly frightening for children. When the symptoms of asthma decrease, children and parents forget about the maintenance and control of breath and lung volume. Because adherence is so poor, asthma is known as the emergency room illness. The playing of a wind instrument is a unique way to provide a creative means for children and teens to understand both the impact of diaphramatic breathing and their ability to control it as well. This study builds upon the evidence, though sparse, that suggest that the blowing of a wind instrument with clinical music therapy intervention strengthens the muscles of breathing and fortifies the incentive toward attending to the daily symptoms and general management of asthma.

Conditions

Asthma

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Quality of Life

  The Juniper Questionnaire is a stringent quality of life measure that provides interview for children and teens and their parents. It is one of the few scales that requires these interviews to occur separately, so that children and parents do not feel compelled to answer what they think the other desires to hear. We also used take home journals and a comprehensive medical assessment to learn of ER visits, missed school days, avoidance of medication, and allergens in the home, as well as socio-economic status - these factors are known in the literature to effect outcomes and exacerbations with this population.

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Increase volume capacity

  6 months

Study Arms (3)

One time music therapy session

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

One time music therapy session which consists of music meditation, including as assessment/evaluation of confined body breathing function as expressed through drawing and coloring post music imagery session. This is followed by an entrainment wind playing/breath expansion music therapy intervention. At the end of the session, the subjects are given a donated wind instrument for play at home.

Other: One time music therapy

Weekly group music therapy intervention

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The weekly group music therapy intervention consists of children and teens using guided visualization and expressing their fears and or fantasies related to breathing with one another. This is followed by creative music improvisations with part-playing on flutes, slide whistles, recorders and melodicas.

Other: Group music therapy

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

One time music therapy OTHER

One time music therapy session

Group music therapy OTHER

Weekly group music therapy intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 7 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• between the ages of 7 and 18
• diagnosed with asthma

You may not qualify if:

• over 18

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Beth Israel Medical Center: lead

Study Sites (1)

Beth Israel Medical Center

New York, New York, 10003, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Asthma

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Bronchial Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Lung Diseases, Obstructive; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Hypersensitivity; Hypersensitivity, Immediate; Hypersensitivity; Immune System Diseases

Study Officials

• Joanne Loewy, DA

  Beth Israel Medical Center

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER, INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 24, 2014
• First Posted: July 28, 2014
• Study Start: January 1, 2006
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2012
• Study Completion: January 1, 2012
• Last Updated: July 28, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-07

Locations

US (1)