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Trial registered on ANZCTR

Registration number

ACTRN12613000326796

Ethics application status

Approved

Date submitted

20/03/2013

Date registered

25/03/2013

Date last updated

14/10/2015

Type of registration

Prospectively registered

Titles & IDs

Public title

Music therapy to support the wellbeing of young people with intellectual disability

Scientific title

A qualitative evaluation of a music therapy programme for young people with intellectual disability who are transitioning from school to work or other activity.

Secondary ID [1]

None

Universal Trial Number (UTN)

U1111-1140-8205

Trial acronym

Linked study record

Health condition

Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:

Intellectual disability

Condition category

Condition code

Mental Health

Learning disabilities

Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Other alternative and complementary medicine

Intervention/exposure

Study type

Interventional

Description of intervention(s) / exposure

Participants will be invited to twenty therapeutic group music sessions (8-10 persons in the group), facilitated by two registered music therapists and supported by the lead researcher in her role as participant observer (also RMT), lasting up to 1.5 hours each. Four blocks of weekly sessions will be held between 2/9/13 and 4/10/13; 14/10/13 and 15/11/13; 25/11/13 and 20/12/13; and 27/1/14 and 7/3/14. The young people will be engaged in various forms of music activity according to their particular individual and collective interests and strengths. The primary goal will be to build a musical community through collaborative ‘musicking’ (Pavlicevic & Ansdell, 2004). Musicking involves active and collaborative participation which can lead to a culture of connectedness and the enhancement of mutual relationships (Stige, 2010). The participants themselves will determine the precise activities they will engage with, but they are likely to include listening, singing, song writing, playing musical instruments, and/or moving to music, as well as talking about music, about how music makes them feel, and what music reminds them of. They will be supported to participate and their varying abilities and styles of communication will be respected.

Intervention code [1]

Other interventions

Comparator / control treatment

No control

Control group

Uncontrolled

Outcomes

Primary outcome [1]

Improvement in overall well-being

Timepoint [1]

We intend to involve the participants in action research. Each week they will negotiate what music they will do, why they want to do it, how they will do it, and how they will evaluate their activity. When they have evaluated their session they will plan the following one. Every five weeks, approximately, the three participating adults will analyse the data drawn from participant observation (of music and talking), and reflective journaling. The data will be subjected to thematic analysis. Each evaluation will constitute one cycle of learning. The adults will bring their new understandings back to the young people who will have the opportunity to discuss and renegotiate the findings and plan for the next cycle (four cycles in total). The adults will undertake a final analysis and meet with the young people to share and negotiate findings.

Primary outcome [2]

The young people's concerns and desires will be communicated to their programme providers

Timepoint [2]

Secondary outcome [1]

None

Timepoint [1]

None

Eligibility

Key inclusion criteria

Participants will be enrolled in IHC New Zealand (full brand name) transition support programmes. They are New Zealand citizens or permanent residents currently living in New Zealand, aged between 16 and 21, funded by the Ministry of Education’s Ongoing Resource Scheme (ORS), in their final year of school.

Minimum age

16 Years

Maximum age

21 Years

Sex

Both males and females

Can healthy volunteers participate?

Key exclusion criteria

Not enrolled in IHC transition support programme

Study design

Purpose of the study

Educational / counselling / training

Allocation to intervention

Non-randomised trial

Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)

Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)

Masking / blinding

Who is / are masked / blinded?

Intervention assignment

Other design features

Phase

Not Applicable

Type of endpoint/s

Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment

Recruitment status

Completed

Date of first participant enrolment

Anticipated

20/05/2013

Actual

19/08/2013

Date of last participant enrolment

Anticipated

17/09/2013

Actual

17/09/2013

Date of last data collection

Anticipated

Actual

Sample size

Target

Accrual to date

Final

Recruitment outside Australia

Country [1]

New Zealand

State/province [1]

Wellington

Funding & Sponsors

Funding source category [1]

Charities/Societies/Foundations

Name [1]

IHC Foundation

Address [1]

PO Box 4155,
Wellington 6140

Country [1]

New Zealand

Funding source category [2]

University

Name [2]

New Zealand School of Music

Address [2]

PO Box 2332,
Wellington 6410

Country [2]

New Zealand

Primary sponsor type

University

Name

New Zealand School of Music

Address

New Zealand School of Music
Music Therapy Department
Mt Cook Campus
PO Box 2332
Wellington 6140

Country

New Zealand

Secondary sponsor category [1]

Charities/Societies/Foundations

Name [1]

IHC Foundation

Address [1]

Jan Dowland
Executive Director
IHC Foundation
PO Box 4155
Wellington 6140

Country [1]

New Zealand

Secondary sponsor category [2]

University

Name [2]

Massey University

Address [2]

Ingrid Day
Pro Vice Chancellor
College of Health
Massey University Wellington
PO Box 756
Wellington
6140

Country [2]

New Zealand

Ethics approval

Ethics application status

Approved

Ethics committee name [1]

New Zealand Health and Disability Ethics Committee

Ethics committee address [1]

Ministry of Health
No 1 The Terrace
PO Box 5013
Wellington, 6140

Ethics committee country [1]

New Zealand

Date submitted for ethics approval [1]

11/04/2013

Approval date [1]

16/06/2013

Ethics approval number [1]

13/NTA/74

Summary

Brief summary

We intend to engage a group of young people with intellectual disability who are transitioning from school, as co-researchers in an action research project to examine, develop, and describe the therapeutic potential of group music making with this population.  The developmental period of transition from late adolescence to young adulthood is a time of significant change, bringing new opportunities coupled with uncertainties, challenges, and risks, all of which can be intensified for young people with disabilities. Music making is a nonverbal creative medium that is accessible to all, and it is a popular activity with young people. It promotes interaction and collaboration, and can support their efforts to develop individual mastery, independence, self-esteem, and autonomy, and to forge strong connections with each other and the wider community. Action research, like the community music therapy approach in which we will be grounding the work, is highly collaborative and empowering, and by its very nature will contribute to the self-determination that the young people will be seeking. Action research methodology is rarely used with this population, although it appears to be particularly enabling for young people. The young people who will be involved in the sessions are likely to experience improvement in overall wellbeing and to develop skills that that will increase their potential for self-advocacy and their prospects of engaging in other meaningful activity or work. Moreover the articulation of their aspirations and goals in various forms through the research process will inform service providers about what is needed to implement the best services now and into the future, for people of this age.

Trial website

Trial related presentations / publications

Rickson, D. (2014). The relevance of disability perspectives in music therapy practice with children and young people who have intellectual disability. Voices: A world forum for music therapy, 14 (3). (Special issue on music therapy and disability studies), online at https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/784. 
Rickson, D., Evans, A., Claydon, N. R., Dennis, P., Dovey, K., Francis, T. K., . . . Watkins, E. (2014). Active Music Research Project Poster Presentation at 'Moving On - Success in Transition Conference'. Wellington, NZ: ImagineBetter.
Rickson, D., Evans, A., Claydon, N. R., Dennis, P., Dovey, K., Francis, T. K., . . . Watkins, E. (2014). Active Music: Participatory Action Research about music for young people with intellectual disability. Paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education (ANZARME) conference 'Moving forward through research', Queenstown, NZ. 
Rickson, D., Evans, A., Claydon, N. R., Dennis, P., Dovey, K., Francis, T. K., . . . Watkins, E. (2014). Active music. Massey Research Online: Massey University.

Public notes

Contacts

Principal investigator

Name

Dr Daphne Rickson

Address

Music Therapy Department
New Zealand School of Music
PO Box 2332
Wellington 6140

Country

New Zealand

Phone

+64272213145

Fax

Daphne.Rickson@nzsm.ac.nz

Contact person for public queries

Name

Daphne Rickson

Address

Music Therapy Department
New Zealand School of Music
PO Box 2332
Wellington 6140

Country

New Zealand

Phone

+64272213145

Fax

Daphne.Rickson@nzsm.ac.nz

Contact person for scientific queries

Name

Daphne Rickson

Address

Music Therapy Department
New Zealand School of Music
PO Box 2332
Wellington 6140

Country

New Zealand

Phone

+64272213145

Fax

Daphne.Rickson@nzsm.ac.nz

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