Song-making In a Group (SING) for Schizophrenia
This study, called Song-making In a Group (SING), is looking into how making music in a group might help people with schizophrenia who hear voices. The study will involve a trained musician leading groups of five participants in four weekly two-hour sessions. During these sessions, you'll have access to instruments and recording equipment to create music. Researchers want to see if this musical intervention can improve how you use language, how you update your social beliefs, and reduce conditioned hallucinations (hearing voices). They are also trying to understand if actively making music is more helpful than just listening, or if creating new music is better than performing existing songs. The study aims to enroll 200 participants aged 18 to 65 who experience daily voice hearing.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study planning to enroll 200 participants. It is designed to optimize the musical intervention by comparing different ways of participating.
- What's involved
- You would participate in four weekly two-hour musical intervention sessions. Your language use, social belief updating, and conditioned hallucinations will be measured at the start and within one week after your last session.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Measurements will be taken within one week of completing the final musical intervention session.
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Song-making In a Group (SING)
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Philip R Corlett, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Yale University
Who to contact
This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov
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What this trial measures
- Change in Language Usebaseline and Within one week of study completion (final MI session of 4)
Speech patterns of participants will be analyzed pre and post intervention using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Counting Program on interviews conducted prior to and post musical intervention
- Change in Social Belief Updatingbaseline and Within one week of study completion (final MI session of 4)
Social belief updating under uncertainty will be analyzed using a probabilistic reversal learning task. Participants will be asked to choose between stimuli on a computer screen that will increase or decrease their points score. Participants should choose the best deck as much as possible, and should understand that the best deck can change from time to time. Points achieved as well as the patterns of errors committed will be analyzed.
- Change in Conditioned Hallucinationsbaseline and Within one week of study completion (final MI session of 4)
Participants susceptibility to conditioned hallucinations during a perceptual inference task that presents auditory and visual stimuli through a computer program will be analyzed. Participant reports of hearing tones conditional on visual stimuli will be the key outcome.