Online music therapy for adults with autoimmune hormone conditions and depression
Tests video-call music therapy for adults with autoimmune hormone disease and depression.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Appalachian State University
- Where
- Boone, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Telehealth Music Therapy for Adults With Endocrine Disorder and Depression
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 10 people, planned
- Started
- 16 Jul 2026
- Expected to end
- 31 Dec 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Telehealth Resource Oriented Music Therapy
- Record updated
- 30 July 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults aged 18-65 who report having depression and an autoimmune disease of the endocrine system. They join 8 weekly music therapy sessions over Zoom.
- Age
- 18 to 65 years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Self-reported depression and self-reported autoimmune endocrine disease. The record does not name a stage or severity.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Intellectual or developmental disability
- No autoimmune disease
- No depression
- No device that supports Zoom (camera and audio)
- Under 18 or over 65 years of age
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- self-reported depression
- self-reported autoimmune endocrine disease
- 18-65 years of age
- have a device that supports the Zoom platform (camera and audio)
Who cannot take part
- no auto-immune disease
- under the age of 18 years
- over the age of 65 years
- intellectual or developmental disability
- no depression
- lack of access to device
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 65 years old?
Where in United States
- Appalachian State UniversityBoone, United StatesContact: Melody Schwantes, PhDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this clinical trial is to explore if a telehealth music therapy intervention helps with quality of life, depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms. It will also explore the participants' relationship to music. The main questions it aims to answer are:
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* Refine and tailor the music therapy intervention to fit the specific needs of adults living with an autoimmune disease and depression. * Examine the feasibility of the study protocol to support a future full-scale trial * Examine how music therapy impacts quality of life, depression symptoms, and anxiety symptoms * Explore how music therapy impacts one's relationship to music
Participants will:
* have a short interview to fill out a questionnaire with some basic information, answers about depression, quality of life, and potential anxiety, and a question about how they feel about music at the start and end of the sessions * attend 8 weekly sessions, approximately 30-45 minutes each, with a board certified music therapist over telehealth/Zoom * answer a few questions about the music therapy intervention
The group in the trial
- Intervention: Telehealth Music TherapyTreatment being tested
10 participants will receive the telehealth music therapy intervention. This is an 8-week study utilizing a resource-oriented approach keeping the principles of empowerment philosophy, self-determination, collaboration, recovery-oriented or salutogenesis ways of working, and utilizing music as a health resource.
Treatment: Telehealth Resource Oriented Music Therapy
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Telehealth Music Therapy for Adults With Endocrine System Based Autoimmune Disease and a Depressive Disorder: An Intervention Development Study
- Plain-language title
- Online music therapy for adults with autoimmune hormone conditions and depressionGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 13 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07413874, who can take part
- Record updated
- 30 July 2026