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Table 5.2 Overview of the design and points of quantitative data collection
January
July
March
July
2010
2010
2011
2011
Data
20
Data
20
Data
16
Data
collection
weeks
collection
weeks
collection
weeks
collection
1
2
3
4
Group
Pre -
Music
Post -
No
Short -
No
Long-term
A
therapy:
therapy
therapy
music
term
music
follow-up
Baseline
therapy
follow-up
therapy
Group
No
Pre -
Music
Post -
No
Short-term
B
music
therapy:
therapy
therapy
music
follow-up
therapy
Baseline
therapy
The first data collection took place before any clinical work began and created
baseline scores for group A. Data collection 2 provided the baseline scores for group
B, post-therapy scores for group A and comparison data between the groups when
only one had received music therapy. Data collection 3 provided the post-therapy
scores for group B and short-term follow-up scores for group A, who had received no
further music therapy intervention. The fourth and final data collection, after a further
16 weeks when neither group had had music therapy, provided short-term follow up
scores for group B and long-term follow-up scores for group A. The times had to fit
around school terms and data collection 4 was undertaken in July, as long a time as
possible within the school year after group B’s intervention had finished. Ideally, a
further data collection should have taken place to create follow-up data for group B as
well, however this would have meant that students were involved in a study that
extended over three academic years and this would have had a significant impact on
the age eligibility of participants (5.3.1).
The quantitative data collected each time from the students consisted of three of the
Beck Inventories for Youth (Beck et al., 2005) and the music therapy project
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