Racial Variation in Response to Music Interventions for People With Alzheimer's Dementia

Johns Hopkins University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease

Treatments: Other: Personalized Music Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04282798

IRB00231227

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will study the efficacy of a personalized receptive music intervention on neuropsychiatric symptoms and general cognitive function in patients with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) by race.

Full description

Music interventions have become a popular treatment option to be used alongside medicinal treatment for many chronic conditions including Alzheimer's disease. Healthcare providers and researchers have found that when patients who have chronic conditions engage with music that is patients' preference or most familiar to patients, the patients display positive changes in mood regulation and thinking overall. The investigators are trying to understand to what extent these music interventions could be useful for patients with Alzheimer's disease and for which populations the intervention is more effective for. To do this, the investigators are looking to recruit participants with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease to complete a four (4) week personalized music intervention where patients listen to a one-hour playlist created from patients' described preferences and songs.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Deaf or hard of hearing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Personalized Music Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will complete a series of questionnaires to identify participants' music preferences and participants' sensitivity to reward from musical engagement. The responses from the music preference questionnaires will be used to create a 1 hr playlist of songs by a member of the study team for the participant to be played daily for four weeks. After playlist is created and transmitted to MP3 device, participants will pick up the equipment and a compliance log will be given for the participant and participants' caregivers to confirm adherence to the protocol of daily listening. The platform will be Spotify, where the MP3 device given to participant at the start of the intervention will be preprogrammed with the participant's personal playlist on the platform. This trial is a supplementary treatment option for cognitive and neuropsychiatric assessments for AD, as such no alterations in the current treatment plans of any participant will be necessary.

Treatment:

Other: Personalized Music Intervention