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The Effects of Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl Music and Guided Relaxation on Mood and Sleep in Rangatahi (Young Adults)

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The University of Waikato

Status

Completed

Conditions

Healthy Young Adults

Treatments

Behavioral: Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl music
Behavioral: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07267520
HREC(Health)2024#3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The number of people reporting poor mental wellbeing is increasing, with rates exceeding 25% of the population. Rates of psychological distress in young people (aged 15-24 years) are rapidly increasing but many cannot access professional help. Self-help options such as meditation and mindfulness are effective in decreasing stress and enhancing mood, but time, practice, self-motivation and patience are required to fully realise the benefits. Thus, there is a need to explore alternate treatment options.

This study seeks to determine if the effects of listening to quartz crystal singing bowl music (CSBs) are equivalent to that of progressive guided muscle relaxation on self-report measures of mood, stress and sleep in young adults at 4- and 8- weeks post intervention. The intervention will be delivered online.

The main question it aims to answer is:

Are the effects of listening to singing bowl music equivalent to that of progressive guided muscle relaxation (PMR) on self-report measures of mood in young adults (Total Mood Disturbance of the POMS) at 4- and 8- weeks post intervention.

Does listening to singing bowls result in improved sleep and stress, similar to the effects of PMR.

Participants will be allocated to either the singing bowls or progressive muscle relaxation group. They will be sent a link to listen to the intervention 3 times a week for the first 4 weeks, and then weekly for the next 4 weeks. They will be asked to compete an online questionnaire at baseline, 4 weeks and 8 weeks.

At the end of the trial (8 weeks), participants will be given access to both singing bowls and progressive muscle relaxation interventions to use as often as they like.

Enrollment

108 patients

Sex

All

Ages

16 to 25 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • age 16-25 years

Exclusion criteria

  • undergoing psychiatric/psychological treatment
  • participation in guided relaxation more than once a month
  • listened to singing bowls more than once a month

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

108 participants in 2 patient groups

Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls music
Experimental group
Treatment:
Behavioral: Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl music
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Active Comparator group
Treatment:
Behavioral: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Trial documents
1

Trial contacts and locations

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