2026/01/01 by Wendy L. Magee, Varshika M Bhana-Pema, Catherine Carr +10 · 2 voices
Psychology · Arts and Humanities · Medicine · #Music Therapy and Health #Diverse Music Education Insights #Voice and Speech Disorders
paper · doi:10.1093/jmt/thaf019
openalex publication_date 2026/01/01 · openalex created_date 2026/02/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The newly revised reporting guidelines for music-based interventions (RG-MBI) accompanied by the explanation and elaboration guidance document (Robb, Story, et al., 2025) are a much-welcomed addition to the expanding number of frameworks and checklists for reporting interventions. Such frameworks aim to support more robust reporting, which in turn will enable the translation of protocols reported in research studies, the implementation of these protocols in clinical practice, and their replication in future research. Persistent problems in the reporting quality of MBIs suggested that the original checklist (Robb et al., 2011) needed revision (Robb, Springs, et al., 2025). Overall, the new guideline checklist expands upon the original checklist with revised items that offer greater detail for reporting MBIs. The explanation and elaboration document (Robb, Story, et al., 2025) offers examples of optimal reporting for each of the items using illustrative extracts from published research. The rigor and potential utility of the revised checklist lie in the accompanying Delphi validation study with an international interdisciplinary group (USA, Canada, Europe—Robb, Springs, et al., 2025). This study resulted in some reordering of the original checklist items to align with the TIDieR checklist (Hoffmann et al., 2014), the addition of one item and, most importantly, changes in wording and terminology that allow for inclusion of a wider range of music experiences and approaches.