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Effect of Music Therapy in Medical Students (EMTMS)

NCT05949736 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2023-07-18

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Summary

Mental health has become an increasingly pressing concern, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all individuals experiencing mental suboptimal states require pharmacological treatment. Telemedicine offers psychological interventions like Music Therapy (MT), which utilizes remote network technology to provide effective psychological services. MT achieves its therapeutic effect by improving the brain's internal network activation patterns, thus promoting self-regulation. With relaxing and soothing music, MT gradually helps individuals unwind and regulates their psychological emotions by influencing the cerebral cortex, hypothalamus, and limbic system, leading to an improved daily mood and reduced tension and anxiety.

The study was designed as a randomized clinical trial, comprising a telemedicine intervention group (MT) and a waiting control group (CON group), both of whom were in a state of mental sub-health. The MT group received music therapy, while the Waiting group received the MT intervention after the treatment of the MT group.

The aim of this study was to collect mental health symptom data, behavioral data, and voice expression data using mobile phone, wearable devices (WD) and neuroimaging techniques (fNIRS). These indicators were used as objective measures to assess the long-term and short-term efficacy of telep-sychological interventions. Analyzing digital biomarkers allowed for a deeper understanding of the potential biological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of tele-psychological interventions.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

The Online intervention platform

Music Therapy (MT) is known to have a calming effect on individuals by using relaxing and soothing music, gradually inducing a state of relaxation. Moreover, it can effectively regulate individual psychological emotions through its influence on specific brain regions such as the cerebral cortex, hypothalamus, and limbic system. This regulation of emotional responses can lead to an improvement in daily mood, reducing feelings of tension and anxiety.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Jiangsu Province Nanjing Brain Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fei Wang, Ph.D · Affiliated Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-03-01
Primary Completion
2023-08-01
Completion
2025-05-01

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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