The goal of this study was to validate the Music Therapy Session Assessment Scale (MT-SAS), which was created to evaluate the relationship between the therapist and the patient during active MT sessions.
Music therapy (MT) interventions aim to establish and nurture a relationship between the patient and the therapist. However, there is a scarcity of validated observational instruments for evaluating the MT process consistently.
<h3>What are the methods of The Music Therapy Session Assessment Scale (MT-SAS)?</h3>
Videotapes of a single 30-minute session were considered for each patient. A pilot study with 10 patients' videotapes was conducted to help refine the items, define the scoring system, and improve inter-rater reliability among the five raters. Following that, a validation study on 100 patients with various clinical conditions was conducted. Throughout the process, the Italian MT-SAS was used, but we also provide an English translation.
<h3>What are the results The Music Therapy Session Assessment Scale (MT-SAS)?</h3>
The final scale included seven binary items that accounted for eye contact, countenance, nonverbal communication, and sound-music communication. The pilot study found that raters had an acceptable level of agreement in their assessments. Exploratory factorial analysis revealed a single homogeneous factor with six items (supporting an ordinal total score), with only the item about eye contact unrelated to the others. Furthermore, multiple correspondence analysis revealed the existence of two distinct archetypal profiles of attuned and disattended behaviors.
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