Meta-Analysis of Music Intervention Effects on Arousal in Disorders of Consciousness

A 2026 meta-analysis by Jiayi Gu synthesizes evidence from 7 controlled studies involving 296 patients. The dataset contains statistical results comparing music intervention to control conditions on consciousness levels in patients with disorders of consciousness. It was published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Conducting secondary statistical analysis based on the reported standardized mean differences and confidence intervals.
• Investigating sources of heterogeneity in clinical trials based on reported intervention types and durations.
• Assessing the quality of evidence for music therapy based on the reported GRADE certainty and risk-of-bias assessments.

Strengths

• Includes data from 7 studies with a total of 296 patients, providing a quantitative synthesis.
• Reports specific statistical metrics, including a standardized mean difference of 1.51 and heterogeneity measures (I² = 91%).
• Provides sensitivity analysis results showing how heterogeneity changed when excluding specific study types.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small (17.8 KB), indicating limited raw data, likely containing only summary statistics.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The GRADE certainty of the evidence in the source study was rated very low.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Jiayi Gu.

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials from five databases (PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Embase, and CNKI).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 05:56:52.