ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Intervention: an update and validation study.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Everyone Breathes: a mixed methods evaluation of a combined Feldenkrais and vocal improvisation group within an adult mental health Recovery College setting.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Music therapy in health care practice: promise, pitfalls, and policy implications.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Effects of Background Music and Multimedia Exposure on Patient-Reported Anxiety in Ophthalmology Waiting Rooms: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- The Use of Tele-Music Interventions in Supportive Cancer Care: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Reporting guidelines for music-based interventions checklist: Explanation and elaboration guide.Integrative medicine research · 2025Article
- Reporting guidelines for music-based interventions: An update and validation study.Integrative medicine research · 2025Article
- Effect of group music therapy on state-anxiety and well-being levels of oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy: a multi-center randomized clinical trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Shared flow and emotional synchrony through group instrumental improvisation: a feasibility study of music-based social connection.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mindfulness-based music therapy for mental health in senior college students: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions checklist: explanation and elaboration guide.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Advancing Music Health Research Through Quality Reporting: Introduction to Reporting Guidelines for Music-Based Interventions.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- Reporting Guidelines for Music-Based Interventions: An Update and Validation Study: Secondary publication.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- Reporting Guidelines for Music-Based Interventions Checklist: Explanation and Elaboration Guide: Secondary publication.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Background: Detailed intervention reporting is essential to interpretation, replication, and translation of music-based interventions (MBIs). The 2011 Objective: To update and validate the 2011 reporting guidelines using a rigorous Delphi approach that involved an interdisciplinary group of MBI researchers; and to develop an explanation and elaboration guidance statement to support dissemination and usage. Methods: We followed the methodological framework for developing reporting guidelines recommended by the EQUATOR Network and guidance recommendations for developing health research reporting guidelines. Our three-stage process included: (1) an initial field scan, (2) a consensus process using Delphi surveys (two rounds) and Expert Panel meetings, and (3) development and dissemination of an explanation and elaboration document. Results: First-Round survey findings revealed that the original checklist items were capturing content that investigators deemed essential to MBI reporting; however, it also revealed problems with item wording and terminology. Subsequent Expert Panel meetings and the Second-Round survey centered on reaching consensus for item language. The revised RG-MBI checklist has a total of 12-items that pertain to eight different components of MBI interventions including name, theory/scientific rationale, content, interventionist, individual/group, setting, delivery schedule, and treatment fidelity. Conclusion: We recommend that authors, journal editors, and reviewers use the RG-MBI guidelines, in conjunction with methods-based guidelines (e.g., CONSORT) to accelerate and improve the scientific rigor of MBI research.
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