Music to Reduce Use of Smoking in Patients With Schizophrenia

NYU Langone Health

Status

Completed

Conditions

Nicotine Dependence

Schizophrenia

Smoking, Tobacco

Treatments

Behavioral: Music session

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03190161

17-00001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of self-selected music listening which targets disrupting the reward process maintaining smoking and additionally attenuating the reward processing deficits associated with schizophrenia. Five participants with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder who smoke/nicotine will participate in an individual session of self-selected music listening for a half an hour.

Enrollment

2 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

clinician verification diagnosis of Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder
smoked at least 10 cigarettes per day for the past month
score of 4 or more on the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence73
psychiatric stability (e.g., no psychiatric hospitalizations within the last year, no expectation for medication change during study participation, no active suicidal ideation, no symptoms that interfere with ability to participate in study activities)
the capacity to participate in the informed consent process

Exclusion criteria

being medically unstable (e.g., medical condition that requires frequent medical appointments or hospitalizations and interferes with ability to participate in study activities)
report active substance abuse or testing positive drug or alcohol use
taking bupropion, varenicline, nicotine replacement products and/or involved in any other smoking cessation treatment
participating in any treatment or activity that includes music as a focus
having a seizure disorder, other neurological illnesses, or a family history of seizures