Music therapy: An effective approach in improving social skills of children with autism
Ghasemtabar SN, Hosseini M, Fayyaz I, Arab S, Naghashian H, Poudineh Z
Advanced biomedical research · 32 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Controlled clinical trial (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2015-01-01 · Adv Biomed Res · vol. 4 · issue 1 · p. 157
- Publisher
- Medknow
- Cited
- 101 citations · more than 94% of similar papers · 4.9× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 25 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY-NC-SA
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Child Therapy and Development · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Keywords
- Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Autism, Social skills, Rating scale, Clinical psychology, Statistic, Analysis of covariance, Medicine, Psychology, Test (biology), Developmental psychology, Autism spectrum disorder
6 authors
From IR
- Mahbubeh Hosseini · correspondingAllameh Tabataba'i University
- SeyyedNabiollah GhasemtabarKharazmi University
- Irandokht FayyazAllameh Tabataba'i University
- Saeid ArabKharazmi University
- Hamed NaghashianShahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
- Zahra PoudinehIslamic Azad University of Birjand
Abstract
Background
The existing methodological weakness in conducted researches concerning music therapy (MT) for children with autism led to ambiguity and confusion in this scope of studies. The aim of the present research is to identify the effectiveness of MT method in improving social skills of children with autism and its stability, as well.
Materials and methods
In the form of a clinical trial study with design of pretest/posttest/follow-up with control group, among the children with autism in community of Tehran city, on the basis of childhood autism rating scale, 27 children with mild to moderate autism were chosen and were divided into two groups of experiment (n = 13), and control (n = 14). Social skills' level of both groups was measured and recorded with the help of social skills rating system scale. The children of the experiment group participated in MT programs of Orff-Schulwerk for 45 days in 12 sessions (two sessions of 1-h/week), whereas the control group received no intervention. The data were analyzed with Statistic Package For Social Science (SPSS) software t-test and analysis of covariance was used to compare groups.
Results
In posttest, the results of covariance analysis showed a significant increase in social skills' scores of the experiment group (P < 0.001). Also, results of the paired-sample t-test showed that the effectiveness of MT has been persistent up to the follow-up phase.
Conclusions
The study showed that MT is an effective method with deep and consistent effects on improving social skills of children with autism.
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