Music Listening to Lower Anxiety During ECT Treatment.

Aalborg University24 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to assess whether music listening is helpful in lowering anxiety in patients about to start their ECT treatment.

In-patients at a psychiatric hospital referred to ECT treatment, is offered to participate in the study investigating whether listening to expert-curated playlists before-, during and after ECT treatment is helpful as a non-pharmacological intervention in lowering patients anxiety. After written informed consent, participants will be randomised into two groups, one listening to playlists with music, one listening to sounds from nature (e.g. rain, ocean waves). Playlists will be administered by tablet+earphones in the waiting room, tablet+speaker in the room of procedure and tablet+bedside speaker in the recovery room.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Anxiety State

Interventions

Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedureOTHER

Patients choose between two expert-curated playlists with music one day prior to ECT procedures for the first four weeks of their ECT treatment.

Listening to playlists with music prior to-, during and after the ECT procedureOTHER

Patients choose between two expert-curated playlists with music one day prior to ECT procedures for the first two weeks of their ECT treatment.

Listening to playlists with sound from nature (rain, waves) prior to-, during and after the ECT procedure

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Capable in-patients of age at Aalborg University Hospital, Psychiatry - departments S7 * S8, diagnosed with unipolar or bipolar depression, referred to ECT treatment. * patients assessed to fit the study, by the head of departments S7 \& S8 * Voluntary participation in the study after written informed consent. * Patients can withdraw their consent at any point during the treatment trajectory. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients not compliant with the study, as assessed by head of departments * Non-capable patients * Patients who withdraw their written informed consent * Patients using hearing aid * Patients with former ECT treatment experience * Patients who receive acute ECT Treatment

Locations (1)

Aalborg University Hospital, Psychiatry

Aalborg, North Denmark, Denmark

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y1)

Measurement of patient anxiety before their first-, and before their second ECT procedure. Patients report of anxiety before their ECT treatment and therefore their anxiety is measured in validated STAI-Y1 questionnaire the evening before the first and before the second ECT procedure.

Time frame: First week of ECT treatment

Secondary Outcomes

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y1)

Measurement of patient anxiety before their fifth.-, and before their ninth. ECT procedure. Patients report of anxiety before their ECT treatment and therefore their anxiety is measured in validated STAI-Y1 questionnaire during their first 8 ECT treatments, to see differences in anxiety levels over time (if any).

Time frame: First four weeks of treatment.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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