Recruiting

Music Therapy

Sponsor:

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Code:

NCT07218055

Conditions

Depression

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 7 - 15

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Music therapy

Study Details

Brief summary:

This study is again looking at the use of music and music therapy experiences in navigating depression. The researchers will provide 11 sessions of music therapy and half will be followed by recitals at the Third Street School Music Settlement where the kids enrolled in our study will observe and interact with the performers and discuss and reflect on anxiety and performance and how sharing personal creativity affects them intra and interpersonally.

Conditions

Depression

Study ID

NCT07218055

Start date

Sep 8, 2025

Status verified date

Oct, 2025

Completion date

Aug 4, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 4, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 7 - 15

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Must indicate depression -or symptoms thereof by parent in writing
  • We are including children only in Amend II

Exclusion Criteria:

\- none

Study Design

Enrollment

20 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Music

Will receive assessment of music and 11 music therapy sessions as well as pretesting and f/u testing

sham comparator: Control

Will receive assessment of music pre-testing and follow up post testing

Interventions

Music therapy

hourly weekly music therapy sessions

Primary outcome measure

  • Conor-Davidson Resilience Scale [ Time Frame: end of 6 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Shantelena Mouzon

(212) 420-2704Shantelena.Mouzon@mountsinai.org

Locations

Mount Sinai Union Square

Recruiting

New York, New York, United States, 10003

Contacts

Joanne V Loewy, Doctorate

212 420-3484Joanne.Loewy@mountsinai.org

Shantelena Mouzon

212 844-8387Shantelena.Mouzon@mountsinai.org

More Information

Sponsor

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Last update posted

Jul 17, 2026

Last verified

Oct, 2025

Keywords

  • Children's sadness
  • anxiety
  • fragility
  • music experiences in child assessment

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on 2026-07-17.