Mind Engagement With Music for Nondrug Pain Relief

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Pain

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether engaging in music listening tasks can reduce the perception of pain and provide nondrug pain relief. Study hypotheses: 1) Performing a highly engaging listening task reduces psychophysiological arousal to painful stimuli. 2) Psychophysiological arousal to painful stimuli is a function of the complexity of the auditory signal. 3) Signal complexity and task difficulty interact to produce the greatest engagement and maximum reduction in psychophysiological arousal to painful stimuli.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00103870

Run by

University of Utah

People needed

120

Starts

2005-02-01

Expected to finish

2008-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-12-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Willing and able to comply with all study requirements

You may not qualify if…

• Abnormal hearing
• Severe allergies to skin preparations
• Psychoactive drugs
• Hypertension drugs
• Pregnancy

Where it is running

• University of Utah Pain Research Center — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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