Depression, Insomnia
Conditions
Keywords
sleep Quality, Depression, Music, quality of life
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether music hearing in the evening before going to sleep can improve sleep quality, depressive symptoms and quality of life in patients with affective disorders.
Detailed description
Disrupted sleep including Problems of initiating and maintaining sleep are most often symptoms in patients with depressive Syndromes and often persist after successful treatment of affective symptoms. Normally disrupted sleep in the context of affective disorder is treated with sleep medication, which can lead to severe and sometimes intolerable side effects. A non-pharmacological approach for improving sleep Quality is Hearing Music before going to sleep. Classical indian Music can improve sleep Quality in depressed patients. In a danish study protocol Western Music improved sleep quality in patients with disturbed sleep and posttraumatic stress disorder. The investigators want to use western Music to improve sleep . In a three week Intervention time, patients shall hear before going to sleep every night for one hour relaxing Music. The control group receives Treatment as usual. After the end of Intervention, every participant has the possibility to use the sleep inducing Music. The aim of the study is to prove whether Hearing Music before going to sleep over three weeks improves subjective sleep quality, self rated depressive symptoms and Quality of life and objective Parameters such as sleep duration and sleep latency, measured by actigraphy. In a follow-up interview four weeks after the Intervention the investigators want to prove if the effects continue after end of Intervention.
Interventions
OTHERMusic intervention
Patient receives Music Intervention before going to sleep. It is composed Music which the Patient hear with maysound Music player.
Sponsors
Sanatorium Kilchberg AG
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* inpatient and outpatient treatment in Sanatorium Kilchberg * one of the following diagnoses according to ICD 10: F32, F33, F34.1, F34.21, F34.8, * Age between 18 and 65 years * completed Primary education Level * good command of the german language * able to understand Patient information, * given informed consent,
Exclusion criteria
* no informed consent * one or more of the following diagnoses according to ICD 10: F32.3, F33.2, F31.3, F31.4, F60.31, F10, F13, F00, F01, F02, F03, G47.3, G25.8, H90, H91 * patients with acute suicidal tendency * pregnant or breastfeeding women
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| objective sleep Quality | up to four weeks | Measurement with actimeter |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| subjective sleep Quality | up to eight weeks | Measurement by questionnaire, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| severity of depressive symptoms | up to eight weeks | Measurement by questionnaire, Beck Depression inventory |
Countries
Switzerland
Outcome results
None listed