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Music Breathing for Caregivers of Children Newly Diagnosed With Cancer

NCT06052904 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-09-10

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Summary

This proposed pilot randomised controlled trial aims to examine the effect of mobile health-delivered music breathing therapy in enhancing resilience, reducing psychological distress and caregiver strain, and improving the coping and quality of life of parental caregivers of children newly diagnosed with cancer.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

mHealth-delivered music breathing therapy

Parental caregivers in the intervention group will receive individual home-based music breathing therapy comprising eight 1-hour weekly sessions for 2 months delivered through Zoom, by a qualified music therapist based on a standardized and validated music breathing instruction manual. The music breathing therapy comprises four breathing phases, namely "Discovery Breathing", "Triangular Breathing", "Silent Breathing", and "Music Breathing". In each session, participants will practice breathing for approximately 20-25 minutes in silence or with music in a sitting position. Thereafter, the participants will be instructed to create a Mandala drawing to visualize the effects of breathing on their mental body image, emotions, and thoughts. Each session will end with a debriefing session, which will serve to verbally integrate and reflect the participants' experiences and mental states.

BEHAVIORAL

Online educational modules

Participants in the control group will receive eight weekly online educational modules via email for 2 months. The content of the online educational modules will include medical information and advice about caring for a child who has been newly diagnosed with cancer.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ankie Tan Cheung · Chinese University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-10-03
Primary Completion
2025-04-02
Completion
2025-04-02

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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