Dissertation - World Federation of Music Therapy

19. The validity of causal claims from a study lacking a control group (p. 130):
Due to the lack of a control group in this study it is not possible to say with certainty that the
presented effects on mood and quality of life in the qualitative investigation can be ascribed to
BMGIM.
20. The “Normal” BMGIM format (p. 130):
“Traditional” BMGIM format is a better word choice. Ventre (2002), using a fourth possible
word, describes a “classical” session (p. 30). The word “standard” is a fifth option, used often
in the dissertation.
21.Terminology - “salutogenic” and “pathogenic” (p. 135):
I have used the terms “salutogenetic” and “pathogenetic”, as these adjectives are often used in
the literature. But I should have chosen “salutogenic” and “pathogenic”, as these are the
words used by Antonovsky himself, as in the following quote from the lecture The
Salutogenic Approach: “The first implication of adopting a salutogenic orientation is the
rejection of the dichotomy posited by a pathogenic paradigm: people are either sick or they
are healthy” (Berkeley, January 1993 - http://www.angelfire.com/ok/soc/a-berkeley.html)
22. The use inferential statistics (p. 138):
Inferential statistics were used in order to study significance within this specific sample, but
not beyond it, as statistical generalizations cannot be made from such a small sample.
23. The links between music structure, meaning, and clinical value for cancer patients
(p. 141):
P. 141 is the last page of the description of the methodology for the qualitative investigation.
The links between music structure, meaning and clinical value is investigated in chapters 7
and 8 and discussed in chapter 9.