Music Listening to Lower Anxiety During ECT Treatment. (MIECT)

Aalborg University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety State

Treatments: Other: Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure; Other: Listening to playlists with sound from nature (rain, waves) prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04706728

VEK N-20200038

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess whether music listening is helpful in lowering anxiety in patients about to start their ECT treatment.

Full description

In-patients at a psychiatric hospital referred to ECT treatment, is offered to participate in the study investigating whether listening to expert-curated playlists before-, during and after ECT treatment is helpful as a non-pharmacological intervention in lowering patients anxiety.

After written informed consent, participants will be randomised into two groups, one listening to playlists with music, one listening to sounds from nature (e.g. rain, ocean waves). Playlists will be administered by tablet+earphones in the waiting room, tablet+speaker in the room of procedure and tablet+bedside speaker in the recovery room.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Capable in-patients of age at Aalborg University Hospital, Psychiatry - departments S7

  • S8, diagnosed with unipolar or bipolar depression, referred to ECT treatment.

• patients assessed to fit the study, by the head of departments S7 & S8

• Voluntary participation in the study after written informed consent.

• Patients can withdraw their consent at any point during the treatment trajectory.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients not compliant with the study, as assessed by head of departments
• Non-capable patients
• Patients who withdraw their written informed consent
• Patients using hearing aid
• Patients with former ECT treatment experience
• Patients who receive acute ECT Treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Playlists with Expert-Curated Music - four weeks

Experimental group

Description:

Patients can choose from two expert-curated playlists with music, matching the trajectory of the ECT treatment (immediately before-, during and after the procedure). Playlists are available to the patients for four weeks (the first eight ECT procedures).

Treatment:

Other: Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure

Other: Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure

Playlists with Expert-Curated Music - two weeks

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients can choose from two expert-curated playlists with music, matching the trajectory of the ECT treatment (immediately before-, during and after the procedure). Playlists are available to the patients for two weeks (the first four ECT procedures).

Treatment:

Other: Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure

Other: Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure

Playlists with Nature Sounds

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Patients can choose from two expert-curated playlists with recorded sounds from nature (Rain, Waves) during ECT treatment (immediately before-, during and after the procedure). Playlists are available to the patients for four weeks (the first eight ECT procedures).

Treatment:

Other: Listening to playlists with sound from nature (rain, waves) prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure