Telehealth Music Therapy for Adults With Endocrine Disorder and Depression

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 — BEHAVIORAL
  The 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 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

Key Dates

First listed

Feb 17, 2026

Start date

Jul 16, 2026

Status verified

Jul 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 Therapy
  10 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-BC
  828-262-8216
  [email protected]
• Vanessa Jewell, PhD, OTR/L
  919-843-4472
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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