Telehealth Music Therapy for Adults With Endocrine Disorder and Depression
Recruiting · NCT07413874 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: Appalachian State University
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What this trial is about
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 can take part
Inclusion criteria
- self-reported depression
- self-reported autoimmune endocrine disease
- 18-65 years of age
- have a device that supports the Zoom platform (camera and audio)
Exclusion criteria
- intellectual or developmental disability
- no auto-immune disease
- no depression
- lack of access to device
- under the age of 18 years
- over the age of 65 years
Where it is running
1 location listed across 1 US state.
- Appalachian State University - Boone, North Carolina, United States