Research has shown that music-based activities may help improve brain functions, such as attention, memory, and executive function. Because of this past research, the researchers are doing this study to find out whether telehealth music therapy is a practical treatment for cognitive difficulties in blood cancer survivors. The researchers will also study whether music therapy and music education help improve cognitive function and other common symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and/or tiredness.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
Therapeutic music lessons are the core component of the Music Therapy/MT intervention. Other components include guided music listening to help participants use music as a tool for regulating mood, energy, and attention, as well as music-centered discussions to help participants discover songs with personal meaning that they will enjoy learning to play.
Participants will receive 12, weekly 60-minute TAME sessions (+/- 1 week) with homework in-between sessions to reinforce in-session concepts and serve as transitions to subsequent sessions. The TAME control group will involve board-certified music therapists guiding participants through music listening exercises.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (All protocol activities)
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (All protocol activities)
Middletown, New Jersey, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (All protocol activities)
Montvale, New Jersey, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Suffolk - Commack (All protocol activities)
Commack, New York, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (All protocol activities)
Harrison, New York, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All protocol activities)
New York, New York, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (All protocol activities)
Uniondale, New York, United States
RECRUITINGFeasibility of studying a telehealth-based Music Therapy/MT intervention for cancer-related cognitive dysfunction/CRCD in hematologic cancer survivors as defined as the completion of 9 or more sessions.
The primary objective of this study is to determine the feasibility of studying a telehealth-based Music Therapy/MT intervention for cancer-related cognitive dysfunction/CRCD in hematologic cancer survivors. Feasibility will be defined as the completion of 9 or more sessions out of the planned 12 weekly sessions of music therapy.
Time frame: up to 1 year
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