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Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions checklist: explanation and elaboration guide
Frontiers in psychology, v 16, 1552659
01 Jun 2025
PMID: 40567875
Abstract
Background
Detailed intervention reporting is essential to interpretation, replication, and eventual translation of Music-based Interventions (MBIs) into practice. Despite availability of Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions (RG-MBI, published 2011), multiple reviews reveal sustained problems with reporting quality and consistency. To address this, we convened an interdisciplinary expert panel to update and improve the utility and validity of the existing guidelines using a rigorous Delphi approach. The resulting updated checklist includes 12-items across eight areas considered essential to ensure transparent reporting of MBIs.
Objective
The purpose of this explanation and elaboration document is to facilitate consistent understanding, use, and dissemination of the revised RG-MBI.
Methods
Members of the interdisciplinary expert panel collaborated to create the resulting guidance statement.
Results
This guidance statement offers: (1) the scope and intended use of the RG-MBI, (2) an explanation for each checklist item, with examples from published studies, and (3) two published studies with annotations indicating where the authors reported each checklist item.
Conclusion
Broader uptake of the RG-MBIs by study authors, editors, and peer reviewers will lead to better reporting of MBI trials, and in turn facilitate greater replication of research, improve cross-study comparisons and meta-analyses, and increase implementation of findings.
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- Title
- Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions checklist: explanation and elaboration guide
- Creators
- Sheri L. Robb - Indiana University IndianapolisK. Maya Story - Indiana University IndianapolisElizabeth Harman - Indiana University IndianapolisDebra S. Burns - University of MemphisJoke Bradt - Drexel UniversityEmmeline Edwards - National Center for Complementary and Integrative HealthTasha L. Golden - Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United StatesChristian Gold - NORCE Research ASJohn R. Iversen - McMaster UniversityAssal Habibi - 1Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesJulene K. Johnson - University of California, San FranciscoMiriam Lense - Vanderbilt University Medical CenterSusan M. Perkins - Indiana University IndianapolisStacey Springs - Harvard University
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in psychology, v 16, 1552659
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media S.A
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- Walther Cancer Foundation through Dr. Sheri Robb's endowed professorshipNational Cancer Institute: T32CA117865
The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. This study was funded by the Walther Cancer Foundation through Dr. Sheri Robb's endowed professorship. Dr. Elizabeth Harman's effort on this project was supported by the National Cancer Institute (T32CA117865).
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts Therapies
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001514569400001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105009341808
- Other Identifier
- 991022059929704721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Multidisciplinary