Traditional Chinese Medicine Five Elements Music Therapy Improving Quality of Life in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People´s Republic of China

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00964314

WJB720603

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) five elements music therapy improving quality of life for patients with advanced cancer, as well as establishing the standard operating procedures (SOP) for it.

Full description

Design: As randomized controlled trial (RCT) with un-blinded design will be done.

Enrollment: 146 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Eligible participation will be enrolled based on diagnostic criteria.
• Advanced cancer patient with more than 50 scores of Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS).
• Diagnosis of advanced cancer
• Patients who are willing to be subject with taking part in this research voluntarily.
• No prior experience with TCM music therapy.
• Newly admitted to TCM oncology department for 3 weeks treatment course.

Exclusion criteria

• Complicated diagnose or one who don't consistent with inclusion criteria.
• Patients suffering from psychosis or diagnosis, or psychiatric diagnoses (e.g., schizophrenia).
• Suffering from acute organ prostration or other condition of demanding to rescue，inability for accepting music therapy.
• One don't read or fill in diary owing to some causes, such as state of the art or acuity of vision
• One suffering from hearing disturbance
• Accepted TCM five elements music therapy in the past.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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146 participants in 3 patient groups

five elements music

Experimental group

Description:

Listening TCM five elements music therapy（TCMMT）based on conventional therapy in China.

Treatment:

Other: music

western music

Active Comparator group

Description:

Listening western music based on conventional therapy in China.

Treatment:

Other: music

Without music

No Intervention group

Description:

no music therapy will be done in the arm.

Treatment:

Other: music