Dissertation - World Federation of Music Therapy

Results – descriptive statistics
The mean scores of all six participants in the Functional subscales and the Quality of
Life subscale are presented in Fig. 5.4. The scores of the individual participants are
given in App. 5.1.
Figure 5. 4 QLQ-C30: Mean scores of 6 participants on Functional and QoL
subscales.
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Fig, 5.4 illustrates an increase in all functional scales, except Social Functioning
which remains the same, and Quality of Life (QoL) from pre-test to post-test. Three of
the functional scales (Physical Functioning, Role Functioning and Social Functioning)
increase further from post-test to follow-up, while two functional scales (Emotional
Functioning and Cognitive Functioning) decrease slightly. Also QoL decreases from
post-test to follow-up, however the mean score is still markedly higher than at pre-
test. No hypothesis predicted a positive effect of BMGIM on physical or cognitive
functioning, and the improvements in these areas may have many reasons. The same
could be said about the three other functional scales and the QoL subscale, as there
was no control group. However the results suggest that the BMGIM sessions
influenced the participant’s quality of life in some areas.
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