Clinical Trial

Orchestra in Class, a Novel Booster for Executive Functions and Brain Development in Young Primary School Children

Study acronym: ORBIT

Recruiting

Record status

This record was last updated December 18, 2023 (before its estimated March 31, 2026 completion). Its status may not reflect the trial's current state.

Summary

How to optimally stimulate the developing brain is still unclear. Executive functions (EF) exhibited substantially stronger far transfer effects in children who learned to play a musical instrument than in children who acquired other arts. What is crucially lacking is a large-scale, long-term genuine randomized controlled trial (RCT) in cognitive neuroscience, comparing musical instrumental training (MIP) to another art form and a control group. Collected data of this proposal will allow, using machine learning, to build a data-driven multivariate model of children's interconnected brain and EF development over the first 2 years of their academic curriculum (6-8 years), with or without music or other art training.

Protocol Amendment History 2 amendments

This ClinicalTrials.gov record has been amended 2 times since 2023-06-12; most recent amendment 2023-12-12.

Status change: Not Yet Recruiting → Recruiting 2023-11-19

Trial Details

NCT Number	NCT05912270
Lead Sponsor	School of Health Sciences Geneva Collaborators: University of Geneva, Switzerland, University of Lausanne Hospitals
Conditions	Development, Child, Executive Functions, Interventions, Music, Arts, Brain Plasticity, Behavior, Brain Imaging +3 more
Enrollment	150 participants
Start Date	2023-12-18
Primary Completion	2026-03-31 (estimated)
Study Completion	2027-04-30 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2023-12-18