Table 1.
Demographic data of participants.
| Criterion | Total | EG | CG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers/percent | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Participants | 44 | 100 | 21 | 47.73 | 23 | 52.27 | |
| Gender | female | 37 | 84.10 | 19 | 90.48 | 18 | 78.26 |
| male | 7 | 15.90 | 2 | 9.52 | 5 | 21.74 | |
| Age | M | 25.89 | 24.95 | 26.74 | |||
| SD | 6.67 | 6.53 | 6.81 | ||||
| min/max | 19/52 | 19/44 | 20/52 | ||||
| Subject/Major | DMT | 13 | 29.54 | 9 | 42.86 | 4 | 17.39 |
| Music Therapy | 24 | 54.55 | 5 | 23.81 | 19 | 82.61 | |
| Occu. Th. (OT) | 7 | 15.91 | 7 | 33.33 | |||
| Degree | BA | 23 | 52.27 | 10 | 47.62 | 13 | 56.52 |
| MA | 21 | 47.73 | 11 | 52.38 | 10 | 43.48 | |
| Previous experience with artistic media * | 4.36 | 4.38 | 4.35 | ||||
Notes. DMT = dance movement therapy, OT = occupational therapy, EG = experimental group, CG = control group, *assessed with the use of a rating-scale where “1” means “no previous experience” and “5” means “maximum previous experience, t-test and Chi-square test yielded that there were no significant baseline differences between EG and CG (all p-values > 0.279).