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Feasibility Study Incorporating Music Therapy to Optimise the Smoking Cessation Process Coordinated by a Tobacco Addiction Nurse in Smoking Patients Being Treated for Cancer

Feasibility Study Incorporating Music Therapy to Optimise the Smoking Cessation Process Coordinated by a Tobacco Addiction Nurse in Smoking Patients Being Treated for Cancer

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT07198971
Acronym
TEMPOS
Enrollment
26
Registered
2025-09-30
Start date
2026-02-18
Completion date
2026-12-31
Last updated
2026-04-09

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Cancer (With or Without Metastasis)

Keywords

Smoking cessation, music therapy, tobacco addiction treatment

Brief summary

The innovative nature of this project lies in the combination of three types of intervention: tobacco addiction treatment, music therapy and therapeutic education. Three disciplines that work together. 1. Tobacco addiction treatment: reducing consumption, quitting, 2. Music therapy: acting on emotions and reward circuits, 3. Therapeutic education: promoting independent healthy practices. Patients learn to use the soundtrack independently to help them manage withdrawal symptoms caused by reducing or stopping tobacco consumption. In this programme, patients play an active role on several levels: * working with the music therapist to create a personalised 'soundtrack'; * identifying situations in which music can help them manage withdrawal symptoms; * using music independently in their everyday lives. The music therapy protocol will be proposed in this study, the soundtrack is co-created by the music therapist and the patient based on the patient's musical tastes and needs. The fact that the patient can use the musical tool independently also gives them significant leverage in their withdrawal process, allowing them to act on withdrawal symptoms and the main factors contributing to relapse.

Detailed description

Music therapy could address the three elements mentioned above: * add a practitioner other than the tobacco specialist, * increase the patient's perception of self-efficacy, * provide the patient with a personalised soundtrack that may have an effect on withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking cessation. Music therapy could increase the chances of successful cessation. It therefore seems innovative to offer an educational intervention combining the tobacco specialist nurse and the music therapist, which would enable patients to use a musical tool co-developed with the music therapist independently at home. There are no data on the learning and use of such a tool to reinforce self-efficacy in managing smoking cessation. The analysis of the existing literature is poor in terms of music therapy and addiction and virtually non-existent in terms of tobacco addiction. The objective is to evaluate the feasibility of an intervention combining tobacco addiction treatment and music therapy and its impact on smoking cessation symptoms in patients with cancer who smoke.

Interventions

OTHERMusic therapy

Music therapy sessions in addition to nursing consultations: creation of a soundtrack to listen to in order to help quit smoking

Sponsors

Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Val d'Aurelle
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Intervention model description

Music therapy is offered to provide additional support in the process of quitting smoking.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients over the age of 18 2. Patients with tobacco-related or non-tobacco-related cancer (excluding blood cancer) 3. Patients who smoke daily 4. Patients wishing to begin a smoking cessation programme 5. Patients with a prognosis of \> 1 year 6. Patients who have given their informed, written and express consent 7. Patients affiliated with a French social security scheme

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients with uncorrected hearing loss 2. Patients with unstable psychiatric conditions 3. Patients for whom regular follow-up is impossible for psychological, family, social or geographical reasons 4. Patients under guardianship, curatorship or judicial protection

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Proportion of patients who adhered to the supervised sessions, combining follow-up by a tobacco addiction nurse and follow-up in music therapyFrom baseline to month 6The patient is considered compliant if they have participated in 4 or more of the 6 supervised sessions combining tobacco addiction consultations

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Tobacco useat baseline, at month 3, at month 6Number of cigarettes smoked per day and Measurement of exhaled CO and Tobacco dependence scale score: Simplified Fagerström Test
Withdrawal symptomsat baseline, at month 3, at month 6Scores on the Smoking Cessation Scale
The cravingat baseline, at month 3, at month 6Scores obtained on the French Tobacco Craving Questionnaire
Motivationat baseline, at month3, at month 6Scores on the 0-10 Digital Scale assessing motivation
Confidenceat baseline, at month 3, at month 6Scores on the EN assessing confidence
Sense of personal competenceat baseline, at month 3, at month 6General Self Efficacy Scale questionnaire
Symptoms of anxiety and depressionat baseline, at month 3, at month 6Anxiety and depression scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
Describe adherence to independent listening in music therapy between T2 and T6.at baseline, at month 3 and at month 6Describe the number of times the patient listened to the audio recording per day, as recorded in a logbook.

Countries

France

Contacts

CONTACTAude Menteaux Music therapist
aude.menteaux@icm.unicancer.fr04 67 61 47 63
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORGONZALEZ Marie Laure, Tobacco Nurse

marie-laure.gonzalez@icm.unicancer.fr

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Apr 10, 2026