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Music therapy in Huntington’s disease: a protocol for a multi-center randomized controlled trial

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Title
Music therapy in Huntington’s disease: a protocol for a multi-center randomized controlled trial
Published in
BMC Psychology, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40359-016-0146-z
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Monique van Bruggen-Rufi, Annemieke Vink, Wilco Achterberg, Raymund Roos

Abstract

Huntington's disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease with autosomal dominant inheritance, characterized by motor disturbances, cognitive decline and behavioral and psychological symptoms. Since there is no cure, all treatment is aimed at improving quality of life. Music therapy is a non-pharmacological intervention, aiming to improve the quality of life, but its use and efficacy in patients with Huntington's disease has hardly been studied. In this article, a protocol is described to study the effects of music therapy in comparison with a control intervention to improve quality of life through stimulating expressive and communicative skills. By targeting these skills we assume that the social-cognitive functioning will improve, leading to a reduction in behavioral problems, resulting in an overall improvement of the quality of life in patients with Huntington's disease. The study is designed as a multi-center single-blind randomised controlled intervention trial. Sixty patients will be randomised using centre-stratified block-permuted randomisation. Patients will be recruited from four long-term care facilities specialized in Huntington's disease-care in The Netherlands. The outcome measure to assess changes in expressive and communication skills is the Behaviour Observation Scale Huntington and changes in behavior will be assessed by the Problem Behaviour Assesment-short version and by the BOSH. Measurements take place at baseline, then 8, 16 (end of intervention) and 12 weeks after the last intervention (follow-up). This randomized controlled study will provide greater insight into the effectiveness of music therapy on activities of daily living, social-cognitive functioning and behavior problems by improving expressive and communication skills, thus leading to a better quality of life for patients with Huntington's disease. Netherlands Trial Register: NTR4904 , registration date Nov. 15, 2014.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 125 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 18 14%
Researcher 12 10%
Student > Master 11 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 7%
Other 25 20%
Unknown 42 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 15%
Psychology 16 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 10%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Neuroscience 7 6%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 48 38%
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