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Trial reportInternational journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology2021

Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Music Therapy for Prison Inmates: Six-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Christian Gold, Fredrik B Due, Elin K Thieu, Kjetil Hjørnevik, Lars Tuastad, Jörg Assmus

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Trial report in International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christian GoldGAMUT - The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8654-7474
Fredrik B DueGrieg Academy - Department of Music, University of Bergen, Norway.
Elin K ThieuGrieg Academy - Department of Music, University of Bergen, Norway.
Kjetil HjørnevikBjørgvin Prison, Breistein, Norway.
Lars TuastadGrieg Academy - Department of Music, University of Bergen, Norway.
Jörg AssmusGAMUT - The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway.
University of Bergen · NONORCE Research AS · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For most interventions to reduce criminal recidivism, long-term effects are uncertain. Music therapy has shown effects on possible precursors of recidivism, but direct evidence on long-term effects is lacking. In an exploratory parallel randomized controlled trial, 66 inmates in a Norwegian prison were allocated to music therapy or standard care and followed up over a median of 6 years, using state registry data. Median time to relapse was 5 years, with no differences between the interventions. The imprisonment of most participants was too short to provide a sufficient number of therapy sessions. Sufficiently powered studies are needed to examine the long-term effects of appropriate doses of therapy.

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Music TherapyPrisonersRecidivismFollow-Up StudiesHumansPrisonsmusic therapyoffenderspsychosocial interventionsrandomized controlled trialrecidivismrelapse prevention

Identifiers

PMID32167389
PMCPMC7970310
OpenAlexW3011082472

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