Effectiveness of Thai Northeastern Folk Musical Therapy for Blood Pressure Control in Hypertensive Patients

Khon Kaen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Musical Therapy as a Complementary Treatment of Hypertension

Treatments: Other: instrumental folk music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03381820

HE581320

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized controlled trial was conducted in a tertiary care hospital, Khon Kaen province, Thailand. Sixty participants were randomized to music listening group and control group. The music listening group was assigned to listen to 30-minute instrumental folk music everyday for one month. Home BP and office BP were monitored and recorded.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 40-80 years old
• Diagnosed stage-2 hypertension (HT) (defined by office systolic blood pressure >= 140mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure >= 90 mm Hg at first hospital visit)

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant women, white-coat HT, secondary HT and hearing loss or blind.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

music listening

Experimental group

Description:

Participants who were randomized into intervention group were assigned to listen to the music everyday (day 1st to day 30th), at anytime of day that was suitable with their lifestyles but not at the time of BP measurement. During day 31st -120th, participants did not listen to the music. Other treatment was the same as the control arm.

Treatment:

Other: instrumental folk music

control

No Intervention group

Description:

control arm received conventional hypertension treatment.