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(2) to find out how the art relates to the kind of characteristics attributed to it.
The problems were: in (1), that the study definitions of approaches were sometimes
inconsistent with their practice; and in (2), the information reported was often
incomplete. The solution I adopted was to descriptively examine as much of the
literature as possible for the first question and to narrow the focus gradually for the
second question, dropping out studies which could not supply the information.
The DAPA 1996 study
One of the studies picked up by the literature search was the DAPA pilot study
(1996) 155 , it has not been included because as part of the present thesis, this research was
itself developed from an informal version of the process of examination of the literature.
Hypotheses and development of the measure has occurred over a period of 6 years.
Inclusion of the DAPA test would hardly affect the qualitative analysis, because it carries
few content fields, but would probably bias the meta-analysis which tries to show the
direction and efficacy of the main body of literature.
Organisation of this section
The literature is discussed in 3 parts 156 :
155
Hacking, S., Foreman, D., Belcher, J. (1996) The DAPA: a new way of quantifying psychiatric
paintings, J. Nervous Mental Dis . 184 p.425-9.
156 There are three analyses which contain different variations from the same pool of 79 studies. For clarity,
studies retained the same identification number in all analyses. Numbers 1-79 alphabetically are used
throughout. A full list of studies appears in Appendix 3 (Table of Authorities).
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