Assessment of Music Experiences in Navigating Depression Part 2

NCT07218055 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: STUDY-22-01609-CR004
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study is again looking at the use of music and music therapy experiences in navigating depression. The researchers will provide 11 sessions of music therapy and half will be followed by recitals at the Third Street School Music Settlement where the kids enrolled in our study will observe and interact with the performers and discuss and reflect on anxiety and performance and how sharing personal creativity affects them intra and interpersonally.

Conditions

Depression

Keywords

Children's sadness; anxiety; fragility; music experiences in child assessment

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Conor-Davidson Resilience Scale

  The Conor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10-item (Conor \& Davidson, 2003, 2007) or CD-RISC10 is scale measuring the resilience of an individual. Each item is rated on a 5-point scale from 0 (not true at all) to 4 (True nearly all the time) with scoring from 0 to 40. The higher an individual scores, the greater their resilience. The lower an individual scores, the lower the individual's resilience.

  end of 6 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• CDI2 or Children's Depression Inventory, Second Edition

  end of 6 months

Study Arms (2)

Music

EXPERIMENTAL

Will receive assessment of music and 11 music therapy sessions as well as pretesting and f/u testing

Other: Music therapy

Control

SHAM COMPARATOR

Will receive assessment of music pre-testing and follow up post testing

Other: Music therapy

Interventions

Music therapy OTHER

hourly weekly music therapy sessions

Also known as: Verbal procession concert activity

Control; Music

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 7 Years - 15 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• \- Must indicate depression -or symptoms thereof by parent in writing

You may not qualify if:

• \- none

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: lead
• Third Street Music School: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Mount Sinai Union Square

New York, New York, 10003, United States

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Depression; Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

Music Therapy

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Mental Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Sensory Art Therapies; Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics; Rehabilitation; Aftercare; Continuity of Patient Care; Patient Care; Psychotherapy; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Study Officials

• Joanne V Loewy, D.A., LCAT, MT-BC

  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  STUDY CHAIR

Central Study Contacts

Shantelena Mouzon

CONTACT

(212) 420-2704; Shantelena.Mouzon@mountsinai.org

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Randomly assigned to treatment or control
• Purpose: DIAGNOSTIC
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor/Director

Model Details: Ransom assignment to intervention or control across 6 month period-11 sessions

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 15, 2025
• First Posted: October 20, 2025
• Study Start: September 8, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): August 4, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): August 4, 2026
• Last Updated: October 20, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF
• Time Frame: Beginning 3 months and ending 5 years following article publication.
• Access Criteria: Investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee ('learned intermediary') identified for this purpose. For individual participant data meta-analysis. Proposals should be directed to Shantelena.Mouzon@mountsinai.org. To gain access, data requestors will need to sign a data access agreement. Data are available for 5 years at a third party website (Link to be included in the URL field below).

Locations

US (1)