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Table 2 Outcome measures used by participants

From: Developing a best-practice agenda for music therapy research to support informal carers of terminally ill patients pre- and post-death bereavement: a world café approach

Outcome Domain

Recommended Outcome Measures

Coping with Grief

- Hogan Grief Reaction Checklist [81]

- Grief-specific questionnaires

Aspects of Caregiver Experience

- Positive Aspects of Caregiving [82]

- Caregiver Resilience Scale [83]

- Zarit Caregiver Burden [84]

- Revised Scale for Caregiver Self-Efficacy [85]

- NPI Subscale (Caregiver Distress) [86]

Quality of Life

- EQ-5D-5 L (Health Related Quality of Life) [87]

- Quality of Life questionnaire [88]

- Assessment of Quality of Life – 6 Dimension (AqoL-6D) [89]

Social Support

- Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MPSS) [90]

Physical Outcomes

- The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36) [91]

- The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) [92]

- Health Economics (analysis of medical costs)

Psychological Outcomes

- Beck Depression Scale [93]

Music Therapy

Evaluation

- The Impact Areas Questionnaire (IAQ): (A Music Therapy Service Evaluation Tool) [94]

- Bespoke Evaluation Process