Online music therapy for adults with autoimmune hormone conditions and depression
Tests video-call music therapy for adults with autoimmune hormone disease and depression.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Telehealth Music Therapy for Adults With Endocrine Disorder and Depression
Key facts
- Where
- Boone, United StatesSee the site
Could this be for you?
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?
Source: NCT07413874, who can take part
Where in United States
- Appalachian State UniversityBoone, United StatesTaking people
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?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Appalachian State University
- Trial code
- NCT07413874
- Record updated
- 30 July 2026
- Original description
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:Read full original descriptionShow less
Telehealth Music Therapy for Adults With Endocrine System Based Autoimmune Disease and a Depressive Disorder: An Intervention Development Study
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:
* 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
Inclusion: self-reported depression; self-reported autoimmune endocrine disease; 18-65 years of age; have a device that supports the Zoom platform (camera and audio).
Exclusion: 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.