Proceedings, Oxford, UK (2002) - World Federation of Music Therapy

The second measure “Inner Structure” uses auto-correlation analysis to
measure whether the subjects’ performance show internal structure
which might even be different from the stimulus structure.
The development of these measures is not yet finalized, therefore results
can not be presented yet.
6. Results
One question to focus on at this early stage of data analysis is how
psychological measures of the experimental group change during the
course of music therapy treatment. Differences between subject groups
concerning expressiveness scores will also be presented. For the musical
measures it can only be referred to the control group of healthy subjects
because the musical data of the other groups is not yet analysed.
6.1 Psychological Measures
6.1.1 Experimental Group
According to the “Heidelberg Model” successful music therapy for
patients with chronic pain disease is indicated by improvements on three
psychological measures concerning therapy outcome, pain intensity, and
affective pain perception (Hillecke 2002). The following diagrams show
the distribution of scores (error bars) for the 14 patients with chronic pain
disease who are tested three times during their 20 sessions of music
therapy.
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