International multicentre randomised controlled trial of improvisational music therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder: TIME-A study
Crawford MJ, Gold C, Odell-Miller H, Thana L, Faber S, Assmus J, Bieleninik Ł, Geretsegger M, Grant C, Maratos A, Sandford S, Claringbold A, McConachie H, Maskey M, Mössler KA, Ramchandani P, Hassiotis A
Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 19 citas
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- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
- Gobierno
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Universidad u hospital
- University of Southampton
- Gobierno
- Norges Forskningsråd
- Gobierno
- National Institutes of Health
- Gobierno
- Health Technology Assessment Programme
- Gobierno
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
- Subvenciones
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (12/167/95); Health Technology Assessment Programme (12/167/95)
Según 6 financiadores declarados.
Publicación
- Publicado
- 2017-10-01 · Health Technol Assess · vol. 21 · número 59 · págs. 1–40
- Editorial
- NIHR Journals Library
- Citado
- 54 citas · más que el 92% de estudios similares · 3.4× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 45 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (publicación gratuita) · CC-BY
- Áreas de investigación
- Music Therapy and Health · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Music Education and Analysis
- Palabras clave
- improvisational music therapy, autism spectrum disorder, children, social affect, social responsiveness, treatment frequency, parental support, autism intervention, school-based intervention, early intervention, treatment cost-effectiveness, cost-effectiveness
- MeSH
- humans, treatment outcome, music therapy, internationality, child, child, preschool, social skills, autism spectrum disorder
17 autores
- Mike Crawford🇬🇧 · autor de correspondenciaImperial College London
- Christian Gold
- Helen Odell‐Miller🇬🇧Anglia Ruskin University
- Lavanya Thana🇬🇧Imperial College London
- Sarah E. M. Faber🇬🇧Anglia Ruskin University
- Jörg Aßmus
- Łucja Bieleninik
- Monika Geretsegger
- Claire Grant🇬🇧Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Anna Maratos🇬🇧Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Stephan Sandford🇬🇧Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Amy Claringbold🇬🇧Imperial College London
- Helen McConachie🇬🇧Newcastle University
- Morag Maskey🇬🇧Newcastle University
- Karin Antonia Mössler
- Paul G. Ramchandani🇬🇧Imperial College London
- Angela Hassiotis🇬🇧University College London
Resumen
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Background
Preliminary studies have indicated that music therapy may benefit children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Objectives
To examine the effects of improvisational music therapy (IMT) on social affect and responsiveness of children with ASD.
Design
International, multicentre, three-arm, single-masked randomised controlled trial, including a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)-funded centre that recruited in London and the east of England. Randomisation was via a remote service using permuted blocks, stratified by study site.
Setting
Schools and private, voluntary and state-funded health-care services.
Participants
Children aged between 4 and 7 years with a confirmed diagnosis of ASD and a parent or guardian who provided written informed consent. We excluded children with serious sensory disorder and those who had received music therapy within the past 12 months.
Interventions
All parents and children received enhanced standard care (ESC), which involved three 60-minute sessions of advice and support in addition to treatment as usual. In addition, they were randomised to either one (low-frequency) or three (high-frequency) sessions of IMT per week, or to ESC alone, over 5 months in a ratio of 1 : 1 : 2.
Main outcome measures
The primary outcome was measured using the social affect score derived from the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) at 5 months: higher scores indicated greater impairment. Secondary outcomes included social affect at 12 months and parent-rated social responsiveness at 5 and 12 months (higher scores indicated greater impairment).
Results
A total of 364 participants were randomised between 2011 and 2015. A total of 182 children were allocated to IMT (90 to high-frequency sessions and 92 to low-frequency sessions), and 182 were allocated to ESC alone. A total of 314 (86.3%) of the total sample were followed up at 5 months [165 (90.7%) in the intervention group and 149 (81.9%) in the control group]. Among those randomised to IMT, 171 (94.0%) received it. From baseline to 5 months, mean scores of ADOS social affect decreased from 14.1 to 13.3 in music therapy and from 13.5 to 12.4 in standard care [mean difference: music therapy vs. standard care = 0.06, 95% confidence interval (CI) -0.70 to 0.81], with no significant difference in improvement. There were also no differences in the parent-rated social responsiveness score, which decreased from 96.0 to 89.2 in the music therapy group and from 96.1 to 93.3 in the standard care group over this period (mean difference: music therapy vs. standard care = -3.32, 95% CI -7.56 to 0.91). There were seven admissions to hospital that were unrelated to the study interventions in the two IMT arms compared with 10 unrelated admissions in the ESC group.
Conclusions
Adding IMT to the treatment received by children with ASD did not improve social affect or parent-assessed social responsiveness.
Future work
Other methods for delivering music-focused interventions for children with ASD should be explored.
Trial registration
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN78923965.
Funding
This project was funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme and will be published in full in Health Technology Assessment; Vol. 21, No. 59. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.
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