Effect of Music Therapy on Pain

Association de Musicothérapie Applications et Recherches Cliniques

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Treatments

Other: Individual receptive music therapy by "U sequence" method

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01020032

AMARC 200801

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of study is to assess the effects of this new music therapy technique on pain treatment, anxiety and depression and on medicinal consumption.

Full description

The "U" technique is a music therapy method of recent use developed by taking into account recommendations of the scientific literature. The objective of the study is to evaluate this method on chronic painful patients presenting a lumbago, a fibromyalgia, an inflammatory or neurological pathology. During the hospitalization, the intervention group benefited from at least 2 daily sessions of music therapy between day 0 and day 10, and continued the musicotherapy at home until day 60. The evaluated criteria are pain, depression and anxiety and their evolution after 60 days of treatment (since the inclusion). The evaluation at day 90 allows to test the persistence of the effect of the music therapy 90 days later.

Enrollment

87 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Have a pain for more than 6 months
Pain of neurological origin (fibromyalgia, algodystrophies), or skeletal musculous (back, sciatic nerve)
Speak and read French fluently
Wrote consent of patients
Benefit from the standard treatment : Intravenous treatment (tranquillizer, antidepressive) the first 5 days, 2 time by day (in the morning and evening), followed by the intermediary orally up to the exit (prescribed doses and at request)

Exclusion criteria

Time of hospitalization < 8 days
Reflex epilepsy history
Major insufficiency of auditory function
Patient with a strong possibility of not compliance to the protocol or of abandon in the course of study
Presence of an illness threatening vital forecast during period envisaged for the study