Individualized Assessment and Therapeutic Intervention for Mental Health of American Postmodern Novelists.
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PMID 35832100WHAT IT FOUND
The paper reports decreased anxiety and depression scores after a 30-day music and art therapy intervention in 50 intervention-group novelists.
It is retracted, and the report does not clearly say how participants were assigned or which result was main.
Key findings
01After the reported intervention, anxiety self-rating scores in the experimental group decreased significantly from pretest to posttest.
02After the reported intervention, depression self-rating scores in the experimental group decreased significantly from pretest to posttest.
0350 creators in the intervention group reported high satisfaction and said music therapy helped relieve tension and anxiety.
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What it does not show
The article is listed as a Retracted Publication. The participant group is unclear: it is called American postmodern novel creators, but some sentences mention children, parents, and autistic creators. The number of control-group participants is not stated. The paper does not state how participants were assigned to groups, whether researchers were blinded, or how dropouts were handled. The reported intervention includes music therapy and art therapy, but the paper does not separate the effect of each component. The results rely on self-report scales and return-visit feedback, without clear outcome definition. The paper does not identify the primary outcome, so the anxiety and depression findings may be selected secondary results.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the decreased anxiety and depression scores as evidence that music or art therapy works. This paper is listed as retracted, and it does not clearly state how participants were assigned, how many control-group participants were included, or which outcome was primary.