Description Module
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 3:57 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 3:57 PM
NCT ID:
NCT06423092
Brief Summary:
The mental health of parents of preterm newborns (PTNB) is negatively affected by prolonged hospitalization of the PTNB in the intensive care unit. This produces changes in the role of the parents and the bond with the newborn, leading to states of depression, anxiety, and stress. Several strategies, including music therapy, have been implemented to mitigate the negative impact on the parents' mental health.
The main objectives of the proposed trial are to determine whether Music Therapy (MT) songwriting combined with standard care (SC) during NICU stay is superior to SC alone in reducing the risk of postpartum depression in at-risk parents of preterm children at the end of treatment, and understand the lived experiences of participating parents who received music therapy for their mental health.
Detailed Description:
This study employs a multicenter, mixed-method approach, with a quantitative component that will be a pragmatic parallel controlled randomized clinical trial (RCT) and a qualitative component that will include phenomenological study. The quantitative component will assess depression and anxiety, which will be evaluated with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7), respectively. Secondary outcomes will be resilience, coping, stress, and mental well-being. These outcomes will be measured in the first week of hospitalization (baseline measure) and then in weeks 1, 2, and 3 of the intervention. Changes in scores will be assessed to identify the effect, and mediating variables will be determined by multivariate analysis. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted on the parents' experience of music therapy songwriting for the baby.
The study will provide data on the effect of music therapy songwriting on the mental health of parents of neonates with brain injuries (PTNB) versus standard care and will document the lived experience of music therapy songs. The results may inform the standardization of this strategy in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to support and accompany parents and decrease the impact on their mental health.
Study:
NCT06423092
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT06423092