Telehealth Music Therapy for Adults With Endocrine Disorder and Depression
- Sponsor
- Appalachian State University
- Study ID
- NCT07413874
- Status
- Not Yet Recruiting
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Conditions
- Addison Disease
- Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type III
- Depression
- Endocrine System Diseases
- Graves Disease
- Hashimoto Disease
- Type 1 Diabetes
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- ALL
- Age
- 18 Years - 65 Years
- Healthy Volunteers
- Not accepted
Interventions
- Telehealth Resource Oriented Music Therapy — BEHAVIORALThe interventions used during the sessions may include any of the following: Creating play lists, Song discussion, Song writing, Improvisation/Electronic music creation, Music assisted relaxation, Music listening journal, and Music combined with art creation as a form of receptive music therapy.
Study Details
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 where you'll fill out a questionnaire with some basic information, answers about your depression, quality of life, and potential anxiety, and a question about how you 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
Key Dates
- Start date
- Feb 1, 2026
- Status verified
- Feb 2026
- Primary completion
- Dec 31, 2026
- Completion
- Dec 31, 2026
Study Design
- Enrollment
- 10 participants (estimated)
- Allocation
- NA
- Intervention model
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Primary purpose
- SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Arms
- Experimental: Intervention: Telehealth Music Therapy10 participants will receive the telehealth music therapy intervention. This is an 8-week study utilizing a resource-oriented approach keeping the principles of empowerment philosophy, self-determination, collaboration, recovery-oriented or salutogenesis ways of working, and utilizing music as a health resource.
Primary Outcome Measure
Percentage of Families Consented Versus Approached [ Time Frame: 8-week post treatment initiation ]
Central Contacts
- Melody Schwantes, PhD, MT-BC828-262-8216
- Vanessa Jewell, PhD, OTR/L919-843-4472
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