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| Title: | Resource-oriented music therapy for psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation : protocol for a randomised controlled trial [NCT00137189] |
| Authors: | Gold, Christian
Rolvsjord, Randi
Aaro, Leif Edvard
Aarre, Trond
Tjemsland, Lars
Stige, Brynjulf |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2005 |
| Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. |
| Citation: | BMC Psychiatry 2005, 5:39 |
| Abstract: | Background: Previous research has shown positive effects of music therapy for people with
schizophrenia and other mental disorders. In clinical practice, music therapy is often offered to
psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation, but little research exists about this population.
The aim of this study is to examine whether resource-oriented music therapy helps psychiatric
patients with low therapy motivation to improve negative symptoms and other health-related
outcomes. An additional aim of the study is to examine the mechanisms of change through music
therapy.
Methods: 144 adults with a non-organic mental disorder (ICD-10: F1 to F6) who have low therapy
motivation and a willingness to work with music will be randomly assigned to an experimental or
a control condition. All participants will receive standard care, and the experimental group will in
addition be offered biweekly sessions of music therapy over a period of three months. Outcomes
will be measured by a blind assessor before and 1, 3, and 9 months after randomisation.
Discussion: The findings to be expected from this study will fill an important gap in the knowledge
of treatment effects for a patient group that does not easily benefit from treatment. The study's
close link to clinical practice, as well as its size and comprehensiveness, will make its results well
generalisable to clinical practice. |
| URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-5-39
http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2604 |
| Appears in Collections: | GAMUT - The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre
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