Clinical trial NCT06147297: Music Program for Hong Kong Adolescents: Improving Emotion Regulation and Reducing Depression, Anxiety, and Loneliness
Official title: Using Music to Promote Young People's Emotion Regulation and Reduce Their Depressive and Anxious Symptoms and Loneliness: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Emotion Regulation
Depressive Symptoms
Anxiety
Loneliness
Keywords: Adolescence
Youth
Emotion Regulation
Music
Loneliness
Mental Health
Psychoeducation
Lead sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The University of Queensland
name: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
name: Health and Medical Research Fund
First posted: 2023-11-27
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Maximum age (years): 19
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Intervention group: Receive the music-based program, and complete the survey before- and after- the program.

Waitlist group: Invited to complete the survey before- and after the 4-week waiting period. Then the waitlist group will also be offered the program, and invited to complete an optional post-program survey.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study is a clinical trial that aims to test and validate a music-based program called "Tuned In" in helping adolescents in Hong Kong improve their mental well-being. The researchers want to find out if the program can help participants enhance their ability to regulate their emotions, reduce mood symptoms and feelings of loneliness.

Participants in the study will be randomly assigned to either the group that receives the program right away (intervention group) or the group that waits for four weeks before receiving the program (wait list group). They will take part in a group-based weekly program for four weeks. Additionally, they will be asked to complete questionnaires before and after the program to see if there are any changes in their mental well-being. The program will be delivered by a facilitator with a psychology background, and a registered music therapist.

By addressing the gaps in mental health interventions for young people in Hong Kong, this study aims to contribute to the development of effective strategies to support their emotional well-being.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* self-report as having problems with low mood, anxiety or loneliness
* score 3 or above on the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), which indicates psychological distress.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Emotion Regulation Skills
timeFrame: Questionnaires will be administered before the start of the program, and immediately after the program (intervention group) or after 4 weeks of wait period (wait-list group)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mood symptoms
timeFrame: Questionnaires will be administered before the start of the program, and immediately after the program (intervention group) or after 4 weeks of wait period (wait-list group)
measure: Loneliness
timeFrame: Questionnaires will be administered before the start of the program, and immediately after the program (intervention group) or after 4 weeks of wait period (wait-list group)
Other outcomes:
measure: Anhedonia
timeFrame: Questionnaires will be administered before the start of the program, and immediately after the program (intervention group) or after 4 weeks of wait period (wait-list group)
measure: Program acceptability and feasibility
timeFrame: Questionnaire will be administered immediately after the program
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: The University of Hong Kong
Study officials:
affiliation: The University of Hong Kong
name: Yuan Cao
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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