Relaxation Music for Chronic Pain

University of California Irvine (UCI)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: IBS - Irritable Bowel Syndrome; IBD - Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Traditional Mindfulness; Behavioral: Pain psychoeducation; Behavioral: Reggae Stereotypes; Behavioral: MIndful Jazz

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06993272

5116

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chronic pain is a common complaint in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Compounding these concerns, opioid analgesics are frequently used to treat severe acute pain. An estimated 30% of chronic pain patients due to IBD report opioid use. Those who continue to use opioids can develop opioid misuse, and opioid misuse portends addiction and overdose so there is a need for better, non-addictive treatment options.

Music interventions effectively reduce pain and pain-related symptomology. Meta-analytic results indicate listening to music can reduce acute and chronic pain. Music listening also decreases emotional distress from pain as well as the use of pain medication. Music interventions have demonstrated these positive effects on pain across a number of settings, including surgical, in-patient, and community settings. Importantly, due to the ubiquity of music - especially freely available online music - music interventions are easily accessible and highly scalable.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 or older
• Living in U.S.
• Have a pain rating related to IBS, Crohn's, or Colitis of five or greater in average pain on a 0-10 numeric rating scale in the preceding week
• Have had pain related to IBS, Crohn's, or Colitis for at least 3 months and for at least 15 days in the preceding 30 days
• GAD Score (Moderate to Severe Anxiety)

Exclusion criteria

• Are currently using or have used prescription opioids in the past 3 months
• Have a current cancer diagnosis
• In one of our prior music studies
• Have formal experience with mindfulness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 4 patient groups

MIndful Jazz

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will watch an introduction to jazz appreciation and mindfulness training video, including the use of jazz for pain tolerance prior to the 4-week intervention. Participants in the Mindful Jazz Group will be informed that listening to music they are not comfortable with (i.e., jazz) can enhance long-term pain tolerance.

Treatment:

Behavioral: MIndful Jazz

Reggae Stereotypes

Experimental group

Description:

Reggae Stereotype Group: Participants in this group will be told about he stereotype of reggae in making people more calm. They will listen to reggae music over the 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Reggae Stereotypes

Traditional Mindfulness

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will listen to a traditional mindfulness practice over the 4 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Traditional Mindfulness

Pain Psychoeducation

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants listen to the same playlist each week of the 4-weeks. It's an audio recording of the pain psychoeducation video they watch during training. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwEQXh5enA

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pain psychoeducation