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7. Positive effects of music therapy were mostly sustained after the course of
music therapy. The long-term follow-up data for group A showed that some
students reported an increase in levels of anxiety.
8. The course of music therapy provides a meaningful process and a sense of
achievement to youth at risk: students spoke clearly about what music therapy
meant to them.
9. Further research to increase the data set is needed. Despite many positive
findings, there was not enough power for the statistical analyses to produce
many significant results.
9.2 Reflections on the findings
It was striking that, whichever group students were in, there was a high level of
treatment adherence (figure 5.3.3). This commitment to attendance was key. Why do
students stick at music therapy Choosing to attend a voluntary session is an active
decision and one which the students made every week during the project. This study
gave them the chance to say in their own words what they considered music therapy
could offer them.
9.2.1 The interviews
Conversation through interviews as well as asking specific questions by survey was
an effective way of finding out as much as possible from the students. With the semistructured
interviews, as many of the questions as possible from the schedule were
put to the students. In some cases, despite the questions, the students wanted to talk
about something else which meant that occasionally there was a lack of directly
comparable data. Nevertheless, this system of collecting data had the advantage of
being adaptable to each student. For teenagers who struggle with decisions and have
hugely unpredictable lives, being able to answer questions on their own terms enabled
them to be more open and inspired confidence.
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