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Tailored Ecological Momentary Music Intervention for Stress Reduction

NCT05829031 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 39

Last updated 2025-08-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Ethnic discrimination is associated with mental and physical health impairments. In view of the negative impact of discrimination on health, it is of great importance to investigate interventions to counteract these negative effects.

Based on findings of a pilot study (clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT04957966), this study investigates the effectiveness of a tailored ecological momentary music intervention to reduce biological (salivary cortisol, salivary alpha-amylase) and psychological (perceived stress, perceived ethnic discrimination) stress reactions after discriminatory and/or stressful events in the daily life of Turkish immigrant women (N = 50, age range 18-65 years).

An intra-individually randomized design will be used, i.e., participants will be assigned on a random basis either to intervention events (they can choose to listen to music for the duration of 10 or 20 minutes) or to control events (participants are instructed to not listen to music). The whole study period consists of 35 days with a baseline period (week 1), intervention period (week 2-4), and post period (week 5).

Conditions

  • Stress, Psychological
  • Stress, Physiological
  • Discrimination, Racial

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Targeted music listening

Participants listen to self-selected relaxing music. They can choose between a duration of either 10 minutes or 20 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Vienna

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ricarda Nater-Mewes, Dr. Dr. · University of Vienna

  • Urs Nater, Prof. · University of Vienna

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-05-01
Primary Completion
2025-08-12
Completion
2025-08-12

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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