Clinical trial NCT05727514: Beyond COVID-19: Supporting Resilience With a Trauma-informed Music Composition Program
Official title: A Trauma-Informed Music Composition Program Supporting Resilience in Individuals Hospitalized During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Problems Related to Life-Management Difficulty
Lead sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Berklee College of Music
First posted: 2023-02-14
Enrollment: 14
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: case series
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of a music composition intervention to support resilience in survivors of serious illness hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Detailed description: This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of a music composition intervention to support resilience in survivors of serious illness hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic introduced widespread trauma for patients facing hospitalization. Therapeutic music interventions have demonstrated positive psychological effects, but none have explored the specific trauma-informed aspects of a composition-mentor program, as well as the specific impact of music composition on resilience-related traits.

Researchers implemented an adapted version of the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers program (VYC): trained composer-mentors guide participants through four web-based sessions to elicit and develop participants' unique musical ideas into finished compositions. Participants are then invited to view a string quartet performance of their compositions. The Brief Resilience Scale \[BRS\] and New General Self-Efficacy Scale \[NGSE\] are administered pre-intervention, post-intervention, and post-performance.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 to 60 years of age
* Massachusetts residents
* exhibiting English fluency
* in care with an MGB provider
* admitted as an inpatient for at least 3 days to an MGB hospital between March 15, 2020 and July 21, 2022
* not hospitalized within the month before starting the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* neuropsychiatric illness impeding participation in the study including suicidality, psychosis, active substance use, and dementia

Primary outcomes:
measure: New General Self-Efficacy Scale [NGSE]
timeFrame: Data was collected at three time points over 5 months: Pre-Intervention (Baseline: upon enrollment), Post-Intervention (after the final intervention session), and Post-performance (after the final performance).
measure: Post-musical composition program questionnaire
timeFrame: Data was collected at one time point, within one week following the final session of the music composition intervention
measure: Post-musical performance program questionnaire
timeFrame: Data was collected at one time point, within two weeks following the end of the music performance
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Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Brigham and Women's Hospital
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital
name: Nomi Levy-Carrick, MD, MPhil
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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