Pilot Study: The Effects of Medical Music on Anxiety in Patients With ILD

This is uncontrolled, interventional feasibility study for determining the effects medical music on anxiety levels in subjects with ILD. Enrolled subjects will be asked to complete questionnaires and undergo physiologic measurements prior to listening to medical music. The music intervention will be for approximately 30 minutes. Post intervention questionnaires and physiologic measurements will be done.

The Medical Music intervention includes playlists that contains songs specifically designed, recorded, and optimized through the provisionally-patented methods, to treat their co-morbid anxiety. The duration of the medical music playlist is 30 minutes. Enrolled subjects will be asked to complete questionnaires to assess anxiety, a questionnaire related to their music preferences, and undergo physiological measurements (vital signs, galvanic skin response, and heart rate variability) before and after the intervention.

Feasibility of using a medical music intervention as a treatment for anxiety in subjects with ILD, as measured by descriptive evaluation.

The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Questionnaire is a psychological inventory based on a 4-point Likert scale and consists of 40 questions on a self-report basis. It measures two types of anxiety - state anxiety, or anxiety about an event, and trait anxiety, or anxiety level as a personal characteristic.

Change in Visual Analogue Scale scores for Anxiety and Distress (VAS-A) before and after intervention

The VAS-A is a psychometric response scale to measure respondents level of anxiety and stress by indicating a position along a continuous line between two end-points ("not at all" to "extremely").

Inclusion Criteria: Men and women age 50 to 80 years old Diagnosis of definite or probable interstitial lung disease (ILD) Willingness to participate and sign consent Exclusion Criteria: Patients who are deaf Inability to provide informed consent Pregnant women