Beyond COVID-19: Supporting Resilience With a Trauma-informed Music Composition Program

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Problems Related to Life-Management Difficulty

Treatments: Other: music composition

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05727514

2021P000904

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of a music composition intervention to support resilience in survivors of serious illness hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full description

This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of a music composition intervention to support resilience in survivors of serious illness hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic introduced widespread trauma for patients facing hospitalization. Therapeutic music interventions have demonstrated positive psychological effects, but none have explored the specific trauma-informed aspects of a composition-mentor program, as well as the specific impact of music composition on resilience-related traits.

Researchers implemented an adapted version of the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers program (VYC): trained composer-mentors guide participants through four web-based sessions to elicit and develop participants' unique musical ideas into finished compositions. Participants are then invited to view a string quartet performance of their compositions. The Brief Resilience Scale [BRS] and New General Self-Efficacy Scale [NGSE] are administered pre-intervention, post-intervention, and post-performance.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 to 60 years of age
• Massachusetts residents
• exhibiting English fluency
• in care with an MGB provider
• admitted as an inpatient for at least 3 days to an MGB hospital between March 15, 2020 and July 21, 2022
• not hospitalized within the month before starting the study.

Exclusion criteria

• neuropsychiatric illness impeding participation in the study including suicidality, psychosis, active substance use, and dementia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

enrolled participants

Other group

Description:

participation in 4-session music composition program with optional viewing of performance at the end

Treatment:

Other: music composition