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Trial reportEuropean journal of psychotraumatology2021

Music therapy was noninferior to verbal standard treatment of traumatized refugees in mental health care: Results from a randomized clinical trial.

B D Beck, S L Meyer, E Simonsen, U Søgaard, I Petersen, S M H Arnfred, T Tellier, T Moe

Open access · goldAbstract readPragmatic Clinical TrialRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in European journal of psychotraumatology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Clinical Effectiveness of Multimodal Exercise Combined With Supportive Music and Imagery in the Management of Poststroke Mood Disorders.The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses · 2025
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  17. Complementary and integrative interventions for PTSD.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

B D BeckInstitute for Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-6542-8321
S L MeyerResearch Unit for Psychotherapy & Psychopathology, Mental Health Service West, Copenhagen University Hospital - Psychiatry Region Zealand, Slagelse, Denmark.
E SimonsenPsychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand; Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-6134-2392
U SøgaardPsychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
I PetersenOdense University Hospital and Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
S M H ArnfredResearch Unit for Psychotherapy & Psychopathology, Mental Health Service West, Copenhagen University Hospital - Psychiatry Region Zealand, Slagelse, Denmark.
T TellierPsychiatric Centre North Zealand, Mental health services in the Capital Region of Denmark.
T MoeResearch Unit for Psychotherapy & Psychopathology, Mental Health Service West, Copenhagen University Hospital - Psychiatry Region Zealand, Slagelse, Denmark.
Region Zealand · DKUniversity of Copenhagen · DKCapital Region of Denmark · DKUniversity of Southern Denmark · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Music TherapyPsychotherapyAdultCulturally Competent CareDenmarkFemaleHumansMaleMental Health ServicesRefugeesStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticSurveys and QuestionnairesapegoattachmentdisociacióndissociationEnsayo controlado aleatorizadoGuided Imagery and MusicImaginería Guiada y Músicamúsicoterapiamusic therapyno-inferioridadnon-inferiorityRefugeesRefugiadosSalud Mentaltrauma依恋创伤图像和音乐指导心理健康解离随机对照试验难民非劣效音乐疗法

Identifiers

PMID34285768
PMCPMC8266250
OpenAlexW3181083664

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Registered trials

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