The Brain Cancer Program, in partnership with the Center for Music and Medicine at Johns Hopkins, will study whether music therapy is feasible in newly diagnosed GBM patients undergoing standard care.
Virtually via Zoom, all participants will meet with Music Therapists to create playlists and learn how to complete surveys measuring quality of life. Participants will be randomly assigned, half to each arm. Arm A will interact with Music Therapists and listen to music twice a week, then independently fill out quality of life questionnaires. Arm B will listen to music independently twice a week, then independently fill out quality of life questionnaires.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
35
Each GBM study participant in Arm A will receive two 30-minute live synchronous virtual music therapy sessions per week for a period of 8 weeks to be curated by a board-certified music therapist. Arm B participants will receive curated playlists of music created by a music therapist. Participants will then listen to the curated music playlists on the participant's own device twice per week. All participants will complete a total of 16 music therapy sessions, scheduled twice per week over 8 weeks. Each session will last approximately 30 minutes.
Oncology- Broadway
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
RECRUITINGSuccess rate of Music Therapy intervention for GBM patients
Determine success rate of the delivery of individualized virtual music therapy (MT) in participants undergoing standard of care treatment for newly diagnosed glioblastoma.
Time frame: 6 months
Rate of survey completion
Rate of participants completing all surveys.
Time frame: 2 years
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