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The problem
Intervention: Structured art-based therapy consisting of 24 sessions integrating painting, clay modelling, music, and guided reflection activities designed to promote sustained attentional engagement
Who it was tested with: Twenty pupils with mild and moderate intellectual disability in school settings.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"A quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test control group design with a 2 × 2 factorial structure was employed," with attention measured before and after the intervention using a standardised scale. The design included both intervention and control groups for comparison, though without random assignment to groups.
Small sample size (n=20) and cluster-based design limit generalisability. No information provided about country context, long-term outcomes, or whether gains were maintained after intervention completion.
Across countries and designs
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