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| Name | Class |
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| Aalborg University Hospital | OTHER |
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The purpose of this study is to assess whether music listening is helpful in lowering anxiety in patients about to start their ECT treatment.
In-patients at a psychiatric hospital referred to ECT treatment, is offered to participate in the study investigating whether listening to expert-curated playlists before-, during and after ECT treatment is helpful as a non-pharmacological intervention in lowering patients anxiety.
After written informed consent, participants will be randomised into two groups, one listening to playlists with music, one listening to sounds from nature (e.g. rain, ocean waves). Playlists will be administered by tablet+earphones in the waiting room, tablet+speaker in the room of procedure and tablet+bedside speaker in the recovery room.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Playlists with Expert-Curated Music - four weeks | Experimental | Patients can choose from two expert-curated playlists with music, matching the trajectory of the ECT treatment (immediately before-, during and after the procedure). Playlists are available to the patients for four weeks (the first eight ECT procedures). |
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| Playlists with Expert-Curated Music - two weeks | Active Comparator | Patients can choose from two expert-curated playlists with music, matching the trajectory of the ECT treatment (immediately before-, during and after the procedure). Playlists are available to the patients for two weeks (the first four ECT procedures). |
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| Playlists with Nature Sounds | Placebo Comparator | Patients can choose from two expert-curated playlists with recorded sounds from nature (Rain, Waves) during ECT treatment (immediately before-, during and after the procedure). Playlists are available to the patients for four weeks (the first eight ECT procedures). |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure | Other | Patients choose between two expert-curated playlists with music one day prior to ECT procedures for the first four weeks of their ECT treatment. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y1) | Measurement of patient anxiety before their first-, and before their second ECT procedure. Patients report of anxiety before their ECT treatment and therefore their anxiety is measured in validated STAI-Y1 questionnaire the evening before the first and before the second ECT procedure. | First week of ECT treatment |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y1) | Measurement of patient anxiety before their fifth.-, and before their ninth. ECT procedure. Patients report of anxiety before their ECT treatment and therefore their anxiety is measured in validated STAI-Y1 questionnaire during their first 8 ECT treatments, to see differences in anxiety levels over time (if any). | First four weeks of treatment. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Anxiety Symptom Scale questionnaire (ASS). | Defining the type of anxiety. Validated Anxiety Symptom Scale questionnaire (ASS), measured before 1st., 5th. and 9th. ECT procedure. | First four weeks of treatment. |
| Non/validated questionnaire on patients experience of treatment quality. |
Inclusion Criteria:
Capable in-patients of age at Aalborg University Hospital, Psychiatry - departments S7
patients assessed to fit the study, by the head of departments S7 & S8
Voluntary participation in the study after written informed consent.
Patients can withdraw their consent at any point during the treatment trajectory.
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Lars R Bertelsen | Aalborg University, Doctoral Programme of Music Therapy. | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Aalborg University Hospital, Psychiatry | Aalborg | North Denmark | 9000 | Denmark |
Collected data is solely used for publishing PhD. articles.
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Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) with three arms, of which one is listening to playlists with sounds from nature for four weeks, one is listening to playlists with expert-curated music for four weeks, one is listening to playlists with expert-curated music for two weeks.
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All participants are given a tablet with two playlists to choose from in each arm. Either two playlists with nature sounds, or two playlists with music.
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| Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure | Other | Patients choose between two expert-curated playlists with music one day prior to ECT procedures for the first two weeks of their ECT treatment. |
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| Listening to playlists with sound from nature (rain, waves) prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure | Other | Patients choose between two expert-curated playlists with sounds from nature one day prior to ECT procedures for the first two weeks of their ECT treatment |
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Self-made questionnaire on patients' experience of the treatment quality using playlists as an add-on to Treatment As Usual (TAU). |
| First four weeks of treatment. |
| Semi-structured Follow-Up interview. | Qualitative Follow-Up interview with two participants from each arm, approximately four weeks after their last ECT procedure. | One month after last ECT treatment |
| ID | Term |
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| D001008 | Anxiety Disorders |
| D003866 | Depressive Disorder |
| ID | Term |
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| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
| D019964 | Mood Disorders |
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| ID | Term |
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| D011891 | Rain |
| D007854 | Lead |
| ID | Term |
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| D055907 | Climatic Processes |
| D055669 | Ecological and Environmental Phenomena |
| D001686 | Biological Phenomena |
| D014887 | Weather |
| D001272 | Atmosphere |
| D004777 | Environment |
| D008685 | Meteorological Concepts |
| D004778 | Environment and Public Health |
| D019216 | Metals, Heavy |
| D004602 | Elements |
| D007287 | Inorganic Chemicals |
| D008670 | Metals |
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