Resource-oriented Music Therapy for Psychiatric Patients With Low Therapy Motivation

Mental Disorders Clinical Trial

Official title:

Resource-oriented Music Therapy for Psychiatric Patients With Low Therapy Motivation: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00137189
• Other study ID #: RCT-MTPSY
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 26, 2005
• Last updated: May 12, 2017
• Start date: April 2005
• Est. completion date: October 2010

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: Uni Research
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study is to examine whether resource-oriented music therapy helps psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation to improve negative symptoms and other health-related outcomes.

Description:

Background: Previous research has shown positive effects of music therapy for people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders. In clinical practice, music therapy is often offered to psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation, but little research exists about this population. The aim of this study is to examine whether resource-oriented music therapy helps psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation to improve negative symptoms and other health-related outcomes. An additional aim of the study is to examine the mechanisms of change through music therapy.

Method: 144 adults with a non-organic mental disorder (ICD-10: F1 to F6) who have low therapy motivation and a willingness to work with music will be randomly assigned to an experimental or a control condition. All participants will receive standard care, and the experimental group will in addition be offered biweekly sessions of music therapy over a period of three months. Outcomes will be measured by a blind assessor before and 1, 3, and 9 months after randomisation.

Discussion: The findings to be expected from this study will fill an important gap in the knowledge of treatment effects for a patient group that does not easily benefit from treatment. The study's close link to clinical practice, as well as its size and comprehensiveness, will make its results well generalisable to clinical practice.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 144
• Est. completion date: October 2010
• Est. primary completion date: October 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Non-organic mental disorder

• Low therapy motivation

• Willingness to work with music

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe mental retardation

• Life-threatening somatic illness

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Disease
• Mental Disorders
• Mood Disorders
• Personality Disorders
• Psychotic Disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia and Disorders With Psychotic Features
• Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Intervention

Procedure:
• Resource-oriented music therapy

• Standard care

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Australia	Sunshine Hospital/University of Melbourne, Faculty of Music	Melbourne
Austria	Wagner Jauregg Hospital	Linz
Norway	Jæren District Psychiatric Centre	Bryne	Rogaland
Norway	Nordfjord Psychiatry Centre	Nordfjordeid	Sogn og Fjordane
Norway	Stavanger University Hospital	Stavanger	Rogaland

Sponsors (9)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Uni Research	Helse Førde, Helse Stavanger HF, Helse Vest, Jæren District Psychiatric Centre, Nordfjord Psychiatric Centre, The Research Council of Norway, The Wagner-Jauregg Provincial Neuropsychiatric Clinic, University of Melbourne

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

Australia,  Austria,  Norway, 

References & Publications (3)

Gold C, Mössler K, Grocke D, Heldal TO, Tjemsland L, Aarre T, Aarø LE, Rittmannsberger H, Stige B, Assmus J, Rolvsjord R. Individual music therapy for mental health care clients with low therapy motivation: multicentre randomised controlled trial. Psychot — View Citation

Gold C, Rolvsjord R, Aaro LE, Aarre T, Tjemsland L, Stige B. Resource-oriented music therapy for psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation: protocol for a randomised controlled trial [NCT00137189]. BMC Psychiatry. 2005 Oct 31;5:39. — View Citation

Rolvsjord R, Gold C, Stige B. Research rigour and therapeutic flexibility: Rationale for a therapy manual developed for a randomised controlled trial. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 14(1):15-32, 2005.

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	negative symptoms (Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms [SANS])		1
Primary	negative symptoms (Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms [SANS])		3 months
Primary	negative symptoms (Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms [SANS])		9 months
Secondary	general symptoms		1
Secondary	general symptoms		3 months
Secondary	general symptoms		9 months
Secondary	general functioning		1 months
Secondary	general functioning		3 months
Secondary	general functioning		9 months
Secondary	clinical global impressions		1 months
Secondary	clinical global impressions		3 months
Secondary	clinical global impressions		9 months
Secondary	interest in music		1 months
Secondary	interest in music		3 months
Secondary	interest in music		9 months
Secondary	motivation for change		1 months
Secondary	motivation for change		3 months
Secondary	motivation for change		9 months
Secondary	self-efficacy		1 months
Secondary	self-efficacy		3 months
Secondary	self-efficacy		9 months
Secondary	self-esteem		1 months
Secondary	self-esteem		3 months
Secondary	self-esteem		9 months
Secondary	vitality		1 months
Secondary	vitality		3 months
Secondary	vitality		9 months
Secondary	affect regulation		1 months
Secondary	affect regulation		3 months
Secondary	affect regulation		9 months
Secondary	relational competence		1 months
Secondary	relational competence		3 months
Secondary	relational competence		9 months
Secondary	actual social relationships		1 months
Secondary	actual social relationships		3 months
Secondary	actual social relationships		9 months