Clinical trial · Interventional
Differences in Acceptability of Music Therapy Sessions Played Live Compared to a Recording Thereof
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The present study seeks to assess differences in feasibility and acceptability of music therapy played live and listening to a recording thereof at the palliative care ward of the University Hospital Zurich. As a secondary objective the investigators aim to extend the limited findings on the putative effect of music therapy in palliative care populations derived from objective measures of human autonomic response combined with subjective psychological outcomes to support evidence-based medicine. The investigators will implement a commercially available tracker, the wristband 287-2 by Corsano, to investigate multiple simultaneous biomarkers of autonomic response to music therapy and a recording thereof, such as heart rate, heart rate variability, electrodermal activity and distal body temperature. To investigate subjective quality of life and psychological outcomes, the investigators will administer highly validated and widely used questionnaires, namely the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire 15 Palliative Care, the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Terminal Illness | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| music therapy | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| recording | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- OTHER
- label
- Live then recording
- description
- During the first visit music will be played live, during the second visit a recording will play.
- interventionNames
- Other: music therapy
- Other: recording
- type
- OTHER
- label
- Recording then live
- description
- During the first visit a recording will play, during the second visit music will be played live.
- interventionNames
- Other: music therapy
- Other: recording
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- intervention-specific acceptability questionnaire based on Theoretical Framework of Acceptability
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Age \>18 years old * Capacity to provide informed consent * Patients with established diagnosis of a metastatic cancer/severe illness with limited life expectancy on a palliative care ward at the University Hospital Zurich Exclusion Criteria: • Inability to answer a questionnaire due to physical limitations as well as cognitive or linguistic reasons.
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