Effect of Music Therapy on Pain

Chronic Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Music Therapy on Chronic Pain in Hospitalized Patients in a Pain Center

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01020032
• Other study ID #: AMARC 200801
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 23, 2009
• Last updated: November 24, 2009
• Start date: September 2006
• Est. completion date: December 2008

Study information

• Verified date: November 2009
• Source: Association de Musicothérapie Applications et Recherches Cliniques
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France : Comité de Protection des Personnes
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of study is to assess the effects of this new music therapy technique on pain treatment, anxiety and depression and on medicinal consumption.

Description:

The "U" technique is a music therapy method of recent use developed by taking into account recommendations of the scientific literature. The objective of the study is to evaluate this method on chronic painful patients presenting a lumbago, a fibromyalgia, an inflammatory or neurological pathology. During the hospitalization, the intervention group benefited from at least 2 daily sessions of music therapy between day 0 and day 10, and continued the musicotherapy at home until day 60. The evaluated criteria are pain, depression and anxiety and their evolution after 60 days of treatment (since the inclusion). The evaluation at day 90 allows to test the persistence of the effect of the music therapy 90 days later.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 87
• Est. completion date: December 2008
• Est. primary completion date: November 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Have a pain for more than 6 months

• Pain of neurological origin (fibromyalgia, algodystrophies), or skeletal musculous (back, sciatic nerve)

• Speak and read French fluently

• Wrote consent of patients

• Benefit from the standard treatment : Intravenous treatment (tranquillizer, antidepressive) the first 5 days, 2 time by day (in the morning and evening), followed by the intermediary orally up to the exit (prescribed doses and at request)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Time of hospitalization < 8 days

• Reflex epilepsy history

• Major insufficiency of auditory function

• Patient with a strong possibility of not compliance to the protocol or of abandon in the course of study

• Presence of an illness threatening vital forecast during period envisaged for the study

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Pain

Intervention

Other:
• Individual receptive music therapy by "U sequence" method
During the hospitalization, the intervention group benefited from at least 2 daily sessions of music therapy between day 0 and day 10, and continued the musicotherapy at home until day 60.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHRU Saint Eloi, Centre d'Evaluation et du Traitement de la Douleur	Montpellier

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Association de Musicothérapie Applications et Recherches Cliniques	Centre d'Evaluation et du Traitement de la Douleur CHU Saint-Eloi, Centre Mémoire de Ressource et de Recherche équipe INSERM U888 CHU Montpellier, Unité de Recherche Clinique et Epidémiologie (DIM) CHU Arnaud de Villeneuve

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (3)

Cepeda MS, Carr DB, Lau J, Alvarez H. Music for pain relief. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006 Apr 19;(2):CD004843. Review. Update in: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013;10:CD004843. — View Citation

Guétin S, Portet F, Picot MC, Pommié C, Messaoudi M, Djabelkir L, Olsen AL, Cano MM, Lecourt E, Touchon J. Effect of music therapy on anxiety and depression in patients with Alzheimer's type dementia: randomised, controlled study. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2009;28(1):36-46. doi: 10.1159/000229024. Epub 2009 Jul 23. — View Citation

Roy M, Peretz I, Rainville P. Emotional valence contributes to music-induced analgesia. Pain. 2008 Jan;134(1-2):140-7. Epub 2007 May 25. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Score on a Visual Analogical Scale (VAS) for actual pain		Day 0, day 5, day 10, day 60 and day 90	No
Secondary	Score on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) Scale		Day 0, day 5, day 10, day 60 and day 90	No
Secondary	Medicinal consumption		Before hospitalization, day 0, day 5, day 10, day 60 and day 90	No

External Links

•   AMARC association is specialized in applications and clinical researches in music therapy