Assessment of Songwriting Interventions Using BPNSS: A Study on In-Patient Recovery and Self-Determination
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examines the viability of songwriting as a recovery intervention for patients in a mental health hospital setting. Using the Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction Scale (BPNSS) as a tool for measuring one’s sense of autonomy, relatedness and competence, first-time participants were asked to complete the scale before and directly following a one-hour songwriting group, with open-text questions included in the post-intervention scale. Forty-nine participants from two different in-patient units - Crisis and Critical Care (CCC) and Medical Withdrawal Services (MWS) - volunteered to take part in the study. Results indicated that participants from CCC only saw a statistically significant increase in competence scores, with open-text responses from both units supporting this finding. Common sentiments from open-text responses included growth in confidence and self belief, elevation in mood and expression of emotions through creative practice. Developing competence can be important when entering into recovery, and can lead to an increase in confidence. While the initial findings from this pilot study are promising, further research is needed to determine the efficacy of songwriting as a mental health intervention.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".