ArticleBMC pediatrics2020
Music therapy as social skill intervention for children with comorbid ASD and ID: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Article in BMC pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04557488 (Effectiveness of Music Therapy in Social Skill Intervention for Children With ASD/ID), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled 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.
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.
Effectiveness of Music Therapy in Social Skill Intervention for Children With ASD/ID: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Designed physical activities targeting social skills in preschoolers: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of music therapy on language communication and social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Article
- Reporting guidelines for music-based interventions checklist: Explanation and elaboration guide.Integrative medicine research · 2025Article
- Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions checklist: explanation and elaboration guide.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Interventions through Art Therapy and Music Therapy in Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Language Disorders, and Learning Disabilities in Pediatric-Aged Children: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The clinical effects of Orff music therapy on children with autism spectrum disorder: a comprehensive evaluation.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Effect of interactive video-based instruction on learning performance in relation to social skills of children with intellectual disability.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2023Article
- A machine learning-based diagnostic model for children with autism spectrum disorders complicated with intellectual disability.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Reporting Guidelines for Music-Based Interventions Checklist: Explanation and Elaboration Guide: Secondary publication.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental impairment characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and interactions, and over half of children with ASD possess below average intellectual ability (IQ < 85). The social development and response to social skill interventions among children with ASD and comorbid intellectual disability (ID) is not well understood. Music therapy is a systematic process of intervention, wherein a therapist may help clients promote their social skills by using musical experience. The proposed study will address limited research evidence on music therapy as an intervention for social functioning in children with ASD with mild to borderline ID.
methodA randomized controlled trial (RCT) with two parallel groups of 40 children each (1:1 allocation ratio) is planned. Participants will receive 45 min of music therapy or non-musical intervention targeting social skills once a week for 12 weeks. Primary outcome measures will be independent ratings on the Childhood Autism Rating Scale and parent ratings on the Social Responsiveness Scale-2. Linear mixed-effects models for these two outcome measures will be created for data collected at 2-week pre-intervention, 2-week post-intervention, and 4-month post-intervention sessions. In-session behaviors at the first and last intervention will be videotaped and coded offline and compared. Pretreatment neural response of quantitative electroencephalograms (qEEG) to social scenes will be used to predict the outcomes of musical and non-musical social skill interventions, whereas qEEG responses to music will be used to predict the effectiveness of musical social skill intervention. DISCUSSION: If neural markers of social skill development are found, then the long-term goal is to develop individualized intervention based on pre-treatment markers to maximize treatment efficacy. The proposed study's results may also suggest directions to development and provision of music therapy services in Hong Kong.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov ( NCT04557488 ). Registered September 21, 2020.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.