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Telehealth Music Therapy for Adults With Endocrine Disorder and Depression

RECRUITINGN/ASponsored by Appalachian State University
Actively Recruiting
PhaseN/A
SponsorAppalachian State University
Started2026-07-16
Est. completion2026-12-31
Eligibility
Age18 Years – 65 Years
Healthy vol.Accepted
Locations1 site

Summary

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

Eligibility

Age: 18 Years – 65 YearsHealthy volunteers accepted
Inclusion Criteria:

* 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 Criteria:

* intellectual or developmental disability
* no auto-immune disease
* no depression
* lack of access to device
* under the age of 18 years
* over the age of 65 years

Conditions8

Addison DiseaseAutoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type IIIDepressionDiabetesEndocrine System DiseasesGraves DiseaseHashimoto DiseaseType 1 Diabetes

Locations1 site

Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina, 28608
Melody Schwantes, PhD+1-828-262-8216ms18994@appstate.edu

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