Music to Improve Sleep Quality in Adults With Depression and Insomnia (MUSTAFI)

Aalborg University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Insomnia; Depression

Treatments: Other: Music Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03676491

N-20170055 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Insomnia is a common sleep disorder for patients with depression. This has a major impact on the quality of life for the individual.

The aim is to investigate, whether music intervention is effective in

1. improving sleep quality,
2. reducing symptoms of depression and
3. improving quality of life

Participants use a sound pillow and selected music in the The Music Star app at home as a sleep aid in 4 weeks.

Full description

Depression is a common health problem in Denmark with a prevalence for depression of 17-18%. Depression has serious personal and social consequence. Sleep disorders are common in patients with depression. Resolving sleep disturbances in depression may prevent worsening of symptoms and relapse.

Music listening is widely used as a sleep aid. A study from the Cochrane library shows consensus that music may be helpful to improve sleep quality in insomnia. It remains unclear if music listening is helpful to patients with depression as it is to a broader population.

A randomized controlled trial address the use of music as a supplementary treatment to improve sleep in depression.

Enrollment: 112 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Out patients in treatment for depression in psychiatry, Unit for Depression, Aalborg University Hospital.
• ICD-10 diagnosis of unipolar depression F32 or F33.
• Sleeping problems identified by HAM-D by a total score of 3 on sleep items 4-6, or a single score = 2 on at least one sleep item.
• Following treatment standards according to national guidelines.(pharmacological treatment, psychotherapy, psycho education, Electro Convulsive Therapy).
• 4 weeks of treatment and/or in stabilized pharmacological treatment

Exclusion criteria

• ICD-10 diagnosis of depression F32 or F33 and psychotic episodes
• substance or alcohol abuse
• sentence to treatment by law
• restless legs syndrome
• obstructive sleep apnoea or other organic sleep disorders
• hearing loss
• dislike of music

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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112 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group

Experimental group

Description:

Music Intervention: Participants listen to music minimum 30 minutes at bedtime for a period of 4 weeks wearing accelerometer. Participants are monitored for a 4 week follow up period wearing accelerometer

Treatment:

Other: Music Intervention

Waitlist Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention: Participants are monitored for a period of 4 weeks wearing accelerometer. Participants are monitored for a 4 week follow up period wearing accelerometer.