Award
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health 5R34AT013522-02
Harmonized Healing: Personalized Music Interventions to Address Chronic Pain in People Living with HIV
Recipient
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Award Amount
$240,827.00
Ceiling
$240,827.00
Awarded
June 05, 2026
Identifier
5R34AT013522-02
The award funds a project to create and test a personalized music intervention to alleviate chronic pain in people living with HIV, addressing both psychological and biological aspects of pain through a pilot trial and app development.
Description
This project develops a highly innovative music-based intervention that uniquely uses personal inputs to chronic pain among people living with HIV to select salient, mood-boosting songs and leverages music to address the experience of pain. It aims to develop a treatment manual and an app for personalized music playlists, conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial, and assess the feasibility of key study measures, preparing for a multisite NCCIH R01 clinical trial.