Sound Young Minds: An evaluation of impact
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Sound Young Minds: a proof of concept study of effective methodologies to evaluate a musical intervention in an adolescent mental health setting
IRAS ID
271081
Contact name
Sally Marlow
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
King's College London
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 9 months, 31 days
Research summary
This research project will examine the mechanisms of a complex music intervention led by the City of London Sinfonia (‘CLS’), in which professional musicians offer music-making opportunities (‘Music Residencies’) on a weekly basis during term time to children and young people aged [8-18 years] who are either inpatient or outpatient attenders at the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital School (‘the School’) which is a teaching hospital school rated outstanding by OFSTED. The project seeks to describe the phenomenology of the Music Residencies and to develop a robust methodology for evaluating these Music Residences and similar music interventions in mental health settings. The project has four parts [see Appendix 1 for overview of study design]:
• Part 1: transactions between students, CLS musicians and School staff participating in the Music Residencies will be observed, described, and broken down analytically in order to understand the phenomenology of the Music Residencies for those who take part in them.
• Part 2: frequencies of how many students participated and their demographic characteristics will be gathered, and questionnaires will be given to students pre and post each Music Residency, to explore which quantitative evaluation methods are acceptable, feasible and appropriate to evaluate musical interventions such as this.
• Part 3: certain types of routinely collected School records for students participating in the Music Residencies will be examined to assess whether any routinely collected data might inform the understanding of the phenomenology and the evaluation of the Music Residencies.
• Part 4: semi-structured interviews will be conducted with students, CLS musicians and School staff in order to understand the relationships between individuals, and the relationships of those individuals to the Music Residences (including the music itself).
REC name
East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1
REC reference
19/ES/0146
Date of REC Opinion
7 Feb 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion