Group Music Therapy Intervention With Informal Carers of Elderly Dependents (MUSIC CARES)

University of Deusto

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Quality of Life; Coping Strategies; Depression; Anxiety; Care Burden

Treatments: Behavioral: Group music therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06028815

NeuroemotionMusicCares

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the effects of a group music therapy intervention with informal caregivers of elderly people on clinical psychological symptoms, taking into account variables such as caregiver burden, anxiety and depression.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• to be the main informal caregiver of an elderly dependant
• the dependant person has to be over 60 years of age
• to be over 18 years of age
• having signed the informed consent form accepting the assessment and intervention

Exclusion criteria

• not residing in Spain
• being under 18 years
• having uncompensated sensory deficits that prevented the administration of the assessment protocol;
• illiteracy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Informal carers receive 10 music therapy sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group music therapy

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Informal carers do not receive music therapy sessions