The Role of Music in Palliative Care: A Proposal for a Rural Based Initiative in Music Based Interventions

November 18, 2022 updated by: Nova Scotia Health Authority
Current practice in larger palliative care centers offer many supportive service modalities, which are often unavailable in the rural setting. Music Therapy by experienced registered Music Therapists is an example of such a modality. The current evidence continues to grow, identifying Music Therapy's benefits to help with symptom relief as well as to improve Quality of Life in many aspects of medicine, but especially in the context of palliative care. This proposal outlines an initiative to provide music-based interventions in a rural community palliative care unit where there is limited availability to a registered Music Therapist.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Study participants in the pilot phase will include patients admitted to the Aberdeen Hospital Palliative Care Unit. Patients excluded from participating would include those unwilling to participate for any reason. All patients will be invited to complete the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire - Revised (McGill QOL-R) upon admission to the unit. The Questionnaire will not be part of the permanent medical record and the participants will remain anonymous. Afterwards participants will be asked if they would like to listen to music during their stay in the hospital. Music will be selected according to their choices from an i-Tunes playlist. Participants will be invited to listen to music at their own discretion. Prior to discharge from the hospital or after 3 days all willing patients will be again invited to complete the McGill QOL-R questionnaire. The participants will remain anonymous, but will be identified as to whether they listened or did not listen to music during their hospitalization.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

30

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • patients admitted to the Aberdeen Hospital Palliative Care Unit.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • those patients unwilling to participate for any reason

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: listening to preferred music choices
All patients will be invited to complete the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire - Revised (McGill QOL-R) upon admission to the unit. The Questionnaire will not be part of the permanent medical record and the participants will remain anonymous. Afterwards participants will be asked if they would like to listen to music during their stay in the hospital. Music will be selected according to their choices from an i-Tunes playlist. Participants will be invited to listen to music at their own discretion. Prior to discharge from the hospital or after 3 days all willing participants will be again invited to complete the McGill QOL-R questionnaire.
Behavioral: preferred music
listening to preferred music choices

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Quality of Life-using the McGill QOL-revised questionnaire
Time Frame: within 3 months of data collection
within 3 months of data collection

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Nova Scotia Health Authority

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Anne M Kwasnik-Krawczyk, Dalhousie University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

March 7, 2016

Primary Completion (Actual)

April 6, 2016

Study Completion (Actual)

April 6, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 19, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 20, 2016

First Posted (Estimate)

January 25, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

November 22, 2022

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 18, 2022

Last Verified

January 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Music in Palliative Care

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

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