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

NCT02661880 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Music in Palliative Care
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 30
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

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.

Conditions

Improved Emotional Regulation; Improvement in Quality of Life; Symptom Relief; Preservation of Dignity; Existential Solace; Relief of Suffering; Emotional Regulation; Quality of Life; Dignity

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Quality of Life-using the McGill QOL-revised questionnaire

  within 3 months of data collection

Study Arms (1)

listening to preferred music choices

EXPERIMENTAL

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

Interventions

preferred music BEHAVIORAL

listening to preferred music choices

listening to preferred music choices

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• patients admitted to the Aberdeen Hospital Palliative Care Unit.

You may not qualify if:

• those patients unwilling to participate for any reason

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Nova Scotia Health Authority: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Emotional Regulation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Self-Control; Social Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Anne M Kwasnik-Krawczyk

  Dalhousie University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 19, 2016
• First Posted: January 25, 2016
• Study Start: March 7, 2016
• Primary Completion: April 6, 2016
• Study Completion: April 6, 2017
• Last Updated: November 22, 2022

Record last verified: 2016-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share