Playlist for Life Hospice Feasibility Study: Version 1.

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Feasibility study to assess the usability and acceptability of the Playlist for Life personalised music intervention as a means of enhancing personhood and legacy with adults at end of life in the hospice setting.

• IRAS ID

  260883

• Contact name

  Bridget Johnston

• Contact email

  Bridget.Johnston@glasgow.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Glasgow

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 11 months, 30 days

• Research summary

  This study aims to find out if listening to music, through creating a ‘Playlist for Life’, can help people receiving palliative and end of life care in hospices, and should inform a number of decisions related to planning a larger study.
  Questions about end of life care are often focused on physical needs but it is also important to help a person maintain or regain a sense of themselves. Listening to music may help to bring back memories, bring family closer together, and help alleviate upsetting symptoms such as agitation and anxiety. Playlist for Life is not expensive to run and has already been used in some hospices, but requires a larger evidence base to support it's wider use. This study fits with Scottish Government aims for caring for people at the end of life and the need for research data to show what really works.

  Patients, together with a family member or friend, will choose music tracks that are meaningful to them and set up a personal music playlist together on a digital music player. Hospice staff will compile the playlist on the digital music player. Participants will take part in a week long programme, during which they listen to their playlist once a day. During the study patients will be asked to fill out questionnaires and take part in an interview at the end of the programme. Hospice staff will also record drug administration history for participants, as well as the times they use their playlist.
  This study will take place at one hospice in Scotland. Patients who are aged 18 and over and who speak English will be eligible to take part in the trial. Patients can be users of the day care service in the hospice or be an inpatient.

• REC name

  West of Scotland REC 4

• REC reference

  19/WS/0077

• Date of REC Opinion

  1 Jul 2019

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion