Your playlist as pain relief: new study tests music app for HIV-Related chronic pain
NCT ID NCT07214077
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Sep 01, 2026 · Updated 3 times
Summary
This study tests whether a smartphone app that plays personalized music can help people with HIV manage chronic pain. Sixty participants will either use the music app daily for 3 months or receive educational materials about pain. The main goal is to see if the app is practical and acceptable, not yet whether it actually reduces pain.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Harmonized Healing App (music-based intervention)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a simple, drug-free way to manage chronic pain in people living with HIV.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early feasibility study with only 60 participants. It is not designed to prove the app reduces pain, only that people will use it.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 60 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Sep 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult ≥ 18 years old * Owns a smartphone * Living with HIV * Currently prescribed antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV * Experience with chronic pain (determined by self-reported pain of ≥3 on the Brief Pain Inventory for at least 3 months) Exclusion Criteria: * Have a significant hearing loss * HIV-negative * Have been prescribed naltrexone
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