Table 3.
Outcome | Month 3-Baseline | Month 5-Baseline | Month 7-Baseline | |||||||||||||||
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n | Mean difference | 95 % confidence interval | Standard error | Effect size d | p | n | Mean difference | 95 % confidence interval | Standard error | Effect size d | p | n | Mean difference | 95 % confidence interval | Standard error | Effect size d | p | |
Symptoms (NPI-NH) | ||||||||||||||||||
Standard Care | 7 | −13.21 | −24.50 to −1.93 | 5.13 | 1.44 | 0.026 | 7 | −14.00 | −24.25 to −3.76 | 4.66 | 1.69 | 0.012 | 7 | −25.52 | −39.10 to −11.95 | 6.17 | 2.32 | 0.002 |
Music Therapy | 6 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Disruptiveness (NPI-NH) | ||||||||||||||||||
Standard care | 7 | −6.38 | −11.53 to −1.23 | 1.52 | 2.34 | 0.02 | 7 | −7.38 | −11.20 to −3.57 | 1.73 | 2.39 | 0.001 | 7 | −12.69 | −18.50 to −6.88 | 2.64 | 2.69 | 0.001 |
Music therapy | 6 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Wellbeing (DCM) | ||||||||||||||||||
Standard care | 7 | 1.65 | 0.71 to 2.58 | 0.42 | 2.28 | 0.003 | 7 | 4.14 | 1.97 to 6.31 | 0.97 | 2.48 | 0.002 | 7 | 1.87 | 1.24 to 2.50 | 0.28 | 3.85 | <0.001 |
Music therapy | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Personal enhancers (DCM) | ||||||||||||||||||
Standard care | −24.08 | −97.47 to 49.32 | 17.06 | 0.294 | −28.08 | −86.70 to 30.55 | 13.63 | 0.176 | −18.83 | −37.68 to 0.026 | 4.38 | 0.050 | ||||||
Music therapy |
The results for the first three rows above have been obtained using the SPSS repeated measures analysis of variance procedure. The Greenhouse-Geisser statistic for checking the correlation structure is 0.85 for Symptom (NPI-NH), 0.78 for Disruptiveness (NPI-NH), and 0.82 for Wellbeing (DCM), and this has led to the decision to use the SPSS results assuming “sphericity”