The Application of Music Therapy in Female Amphetamine Use Disorder

Shanghai Mental Health Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Amphetamine Addiction

Treatments: Behavioral: Music therapy group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03221283

MZhao-007

Details and patient eligibility

About

The group music therapy will be used to treat female amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) addiction

Full description

Amphetamine addicts are often accompanied by severe emotional problems and are difficult to control and regulate negative emotions by themselves.And the emotional problems are high risk factors of addicts relapse. Music therapy as the intervention is in order to improve amphetamine addicts' emotional status and the ability of emotion regulation. Self-rating Depression Scale(SDS), Self-rating Anxiety scale(SAS) will be used to investigate the emotion of participants. These methods will also be used to evaluate the efficacy of the intervention.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• In accordance with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5) for methamphetamine (MA) use disorder
• Junior high school degree or above
• Normal vision and hearing
• Have emotional problem

Exclusion criteria

• Other substance abuse or dependence in recent a years (except nicotine)
• Mental impairment, Intelligence Quotient (IQ) < 70
• Mental disorders
• Physical disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants only accept the regular scheduled in the compulsory isolated detoxification center.

Music therapy group

Experimental group

Description:

Use randomized controlled clinical trial design.The main content of music therapy is emotional experience , emotion regulation, emotional control and emotional expression. The experimental group received 13 group music sessions over a three-month period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Music therapy group