Music-based Treatments and Pain: Underlying Mechanisms and the Beneficial Effects of Music-Based Treatments
CompletedNot applicableNCT05578781
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this study is to understand the mechanisms that underlie the beneficial effects of music-based treatments in individuals with moderate to severe chronic low back pain
Study details
- Official title
- Music-based Treatments and Pain: Underlying Mechanisms
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Music Therapy
- Behavioral: Music Medicine
- Behavioral: Control group
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
- Collaborators
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
- Start date
- 2023-01-26
- Primary completion
- 2024-11-14
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria for Chronic Low Back Pain sample: * ≥18 years old * Meets criteria for Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) * Moderate to severe pain intensity on average (i.e., average pain in the past week ≥4 on the 0-10 NRS) * Able to read, speak, and understand English Inclusion criterion for the non-pain sample: * ≥18 years old * Able to read, speak, and understand English Exclusion Criteria: * Cognitive impairment that could interfere with study participation defined as ≥1 error on the 6-Item * Presence of a psychiatric condition (e.g. significant suicidal ideation, active psychotic symptoms that would interfere with study participation * Having a significant hearing disability that interferes with the potential participant's ability to hear music * Having a health condition associated,per both chart review and self-report, with central nervous system damage (e.g., epilepsy, traumatic head injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's).
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05578781