The Application of Music Therapy in Female Amphetamine Use Disorder

Amphetamine addicts are often accompanied by severe emotional problems and are difficult to control and regulate negative emotions by themselves.And the emotional problems are high risk factors of addicts relapse. Music therapy as the intervention is in order to improve amphetamine addicts' emotional status and the ability of emotion regulation. Self-rating Depression Scale(SDS), Self-rating Anxiety scale(SAS) will be used to investigate the emotion of participants. These methods will also be used to evaluate the efficacy of the intervention.

• Music therapy group (Behavioral): The experimental group received 13 group music sessions over a three-month period. Different method of music therapy will be used to improve the emotion experience, emotion regulation, emotional control and emotional expression.

Primary outcomes

• Change from Baseline Depression status assessed by Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) at 4 months. [Baseline, 2 months,4 months, and 7months]: evaluate all participants' depression status by Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS)

Secondary outcomes

• Anxiety status assessed by Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) [Baseline, 2 months,4 months, and 7months]: evaluate all participants' anxiety status by Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS)
• Change from Baseline Craving for ATS assessed by Visual Analog Scales (VAS) [Baseline, 2 months,4 months, and 7months]: evaluate all participants' craving for ATS by Visual Analog Scales (VAS)
• Empathy ability assessed by Interpersonal Reactivity Index-C(IRI-C) [Baseline, 2 months,4 months, and 7months]: evaluate all participants' Empathy ability by Interpersonal Reactivity Index-C(IRI-C)
• Motivation for treatment assessed by Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale(SOCRATES) [Baseline, 2 months,4 months, and 7months]: evaluate all participants' motivation for treatment assessed by Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale(SOCRATES)
• Change from Baseline emotional status assessed by emotional STROOP paradigm [Baseline, 2 months,4 months, and 7months]: evaluate all participants' emotional status by emotional STROOP paradigm
• Sleep status assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI) [Baseline, 2 months,4 months, and 7months]: evaluate all participants' sleep status by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI)

Sex: Female

Inclusion Criteria:

* In accordance with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5) for methamphetamine (MA) use disorder
* Junior high school degree or above
* Normal vision and hearing
* Have emotional problem

Exclusion Criteria:

* Other substance abuse or dependence in recent a years (except nicotine)
* Mental impairment, Intelligence Quotient (IQ) < 70
* Mental disorders
* Physical disease

• Zhao min, PhD, Principal investigator, Shanghai Mental Health Center