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RecruitingNCT04085848MAPPSUpdated Sep 14, 2026

Music Against Psychological Pain in Suicide

An interventional study of music therapy in Suicide, Attempted and Suicidal Ideation, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion. Recruiting at 1 site in Reunion. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-14.

Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Feb 2020; still recruiting 6 years 8 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
264
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study compares the efficacy of music therapy associated with standard care versus the standard care alone on the psychological pain in suicidal patients.

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Music therapy consists of using the Music Care tool. Each patient randomized in the music therapy arm should perform 4 music therapy sessions of 30 minutes on 48h.

Before and after each music therapy sessions, the psychological pain will be measured by the analogical visual scale.

Standard care consists of a medical and paramedical interview lasting 20-30 minutes. At the end of the interview, a drug treatment (BZD anxiolytic and/or hypnotic) is prescribed and the patient is hospitalized. During hospitalization, patient is regularly interviewed in order to evaluate his psychological status.

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Conditions studied

  • Suicide, Attempted
  • Suicidal Ideation
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In context

Suicide, Attempted

281 studies on the registry are indexed under Suicide, Attempted; 91 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 264 is above the median of 129 across 224 interventional studies indexed under Suicide, Attempted.

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Lead sponsor

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion is the lead sponsor of 141 studies on the registry; 37 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Patient with suicidal ideas, thoughts or surviving suicide attempt
  • Patient whose emergency somatic management lasted less than 48h
  • Patient who, according to the physician, is still in suicidal mood
  • Patient admitted in the psychiatric hospitalization unit of the Public Mental Health Establishment
  • Patient with voluntary admission and agrees to stay in hospital from 48h to 60h
  • Patient able to write and read in french
  • Patient affiliated to a social security scheme
  • Patient who gives his before any procedure related to the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patient with attempt suicide requiring a somatic care (intensive, surgery, gastric lavage...)
  • Patient with medical history of audiogenic and/or musicogenic epilepsy
  • Patient with major impairment of hearing function
  • Patient unable to support the headhset earphone
  • Patient with contra indication to BZD, hypnotics (Zopiclone) or requiring more sedative and/or psychotic drugs
  • Patient under guardianship or under judicial protection
  • Patient hospitalized at the request of a third party or ex officio
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Care provider)
Enrollment
264 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Groupe intervention

    Usual care and music therapy

    Other: music therapy

  • No intervention
    Groupe contrôle

    Usual care

Interventions

  • Othermusic therapy

    4 music therapy sessions during a period of time of 48 hours. Each session lasts 30 minutes.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from inclusion psychological pain at 48 hours after inclusion

    Pain analogical visual scale (scale ranges : from 0 to 10) min = 0 = no psychological pain and max = 10 = maximum psychological pain

    Time frame: 48 hours after inclusion

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Etablissement Public de Santé Mentale de La Réunion
    Saint-Paul, 97460, Reunion
    Recruiting
    • Erick GOKALSING · Contact
    • Erick GOKALSING, MD · Principal investigator
    • Pauline MASCAREL, MD · Sub investigator
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 14, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04085848
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 11, 2019
Start date
Feb 25, 2020
Primary completion
Nov 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Nov 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 14, 2026

Study contacts

Emilie TECHER
Contact
emilie.techer@chu-reunion.fr
+2 62 262 90 62 89
Erick GOKALSING
principal investigator · EPSMR

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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