Recruiting

Music Therapy

Sponsor:

Appalachian State University

Code:

NCT07413874

Conditions

Type 1 Diabetes

Hashimoto Disease

Graves Disease

Addison Disease

Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type III

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Telehealth Resource Oriented Music Therapy

Study Details

Brief 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

Conditions

Type 1 Diabetes

Hashimoto Disease

Graves Disease

Addison Disease

Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type III

Study ID

NCT07413874

Start date

Jul 16, 2026

Status verified date

Jul, 2026

Completion date

Dec 31, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 31, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Not 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

Study Design

Enrollment

10 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Intervention: Telehealth Music Therapy

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.

Interventions

Telehealth Resource Oriented Music Therapy

The interventions used during the sessions may include any of the following: Creating play lists, Song discussion, Song writing, Improvisation/Electronic music creation, Music assisted relaxation, Music listening journal, and Music combined with art creation as a form of receptive music therapy.

Primary outcome measure

  • Percentage of Families Consented Versus Approached [ Time Frame: 8-week post treatment initiation ]
  • Number and Percentage of Intervention Group Condition Participants Retained vs Enrolled [ Time Frame: 8-week post treatment initiation ]
  • Number and Percentage of Surveys Completed by Participants Who Completed the Study [ Time Frame: 8-week post treatment initiation ]
  • Number and Percentage of attendance at telehealth sessions [ Time Frame: 8-week post treatment initiation ]
  • Number and percentage of participants enrolled for the different recruitment strategies [ Time Frame: 8-week post treatment initiation ]
  • Telehealth Satisfaction Survey [ Time Frame: 8-week post treatment initiation ]
  • Training Satisfaction Rating Scale [ Time Frame: 8-week post treatment initiation ]
  • Study Specific Interview Guide [ Time Frame: 8-week post treatment initiation ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Melody Schwantes, PhD, MT-BC

828-262-8216ms18994@appstate.edu

Vanessa Jewell, PhD, OTR/L

919-843-4472vanessa_jewell@med.unc.edu

Locations

Appalachian State University

Recruiting

Boone, North Carolina, United States, 28608

Contacts

Melody Schwantes, PhD

+1-828-262-8216ms18994@appstate.edu

Vanessa Jewel, PhD

+1919-843-4463vanessa_jewell@med.unc.edu

Principal Investigator:

Melody Schwantes, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Appalachian State University

Last update posted

Jul 30, 2026

Last verified

Jul, 2026

Keywords

  • type 1 diabetes
  • music therapy
  • behavioral health
  • psychosocial
  • diabetes
  • behavioral intervention
  • quality of life
  • telehealth

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-10-08. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Appalachian State University on 2026-07-30. Recruitment status is synced daily from ClinicalTrials.gov and may not reflect the sponsor's current status. Confirm during your call.