Music Therapy in Mental Health and Emotional Diversion of Primary and Secondary School Students.
Dong Li
PMID 35912310WHAT IT FOUND
This paper is retracted.
It claims to test music therapy for student stress but contains contradictory methods and results from an unrelated study. Do not use this work to guide clinical decisions.
What this paper is
This is a retracted publication. It describes a music therapy intervention for school students but contains severe internal contradictions in its methods (randomly dividing students into three groups versus comparing only two) and reports results from a completely different, unexplained study of seven adolescents. Because the paper has been withdrawn and its data integrity is compromised, there are no reliable findings here to inform clinical practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not attempt to extract design features or outcomes from this text. The paper is retracted and its reported methods (e.g., randomizing 60 students into three groups but analyzing only two) do not match its reported results (e.g., discussing seven group members with 'sameness' scores).