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Family-Centered Songwriting in Pediatric Palliative Care

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Vanderbilt University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cognitive Impairment

Treatments

Behavioral: Songwriting with licensed music therapist

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the feasibility and efficacy of a family-centered songwriting intervention for cognitively-impaired children referred to a palliative care service.

Full description

Music-based interventions have previously been shown to reduce psychological distress in children with life-threatening conditions. However, children with cognitive impairment are frequently excluded from these studies. Our study will evaluate the efficacy a family-centered songwriting intervention for the following outcomes: child psychological and physical symptoms, parent psychological distress, and family environment.

Following recruitment, parent-child dyads will undergo 4 sessions with a licensed music therapist (anticipated to last 1 hour each). During these sessions, families and their children will select a song and engage in a songwriting process which includes various physiologic sounds from the child (i.e. heart rate, breathing). At the conclusion of these four sessions, a music DVD will be produced and delivered to the family.

Enrollment

25 patients

Sex

All

Ages

7 to 17 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • children ages 7-17 years
  • cognitive impairment (T-score of 40 or below on the PROMIS Parent-Proxy Cognitive Function)
  • receiving palliative/complex care
  • progressively declining disease
  • ability to hear.
  • parents 18 years of age and older
  • parent without cognitive impairment
  • parent able to speak/understand English

Exclusion criteria

  • None

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

25 participants in 1 patient group

cognitively impaired children
Experimental group
Description:
This is a single-group study; all participants will be offered the songwriting intervention.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Songwriting with licensed music therapist

Trial contacts and locations

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