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Article History

Received: 13 July 2023

Accepted: 26 March 2024

First Online: 28 May 2024

Declarations

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: This feasibility RCT will be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki []. The research unit is located within the Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy at Witten/Herdecke University. Three cooperating clinics, i.e., the Community Hospital Herdecke, Clinic Center Dortmund, and Vestic Children’s Clinic Datteln, serve the recruitment of the children and their significant others. Both INMUT-KB and MUT-K will be performed at the Nordoff/Robbins Centre for Music Therapy Witten or on the wards of the respective clinics. All interventions will be video-recorded. The study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Witten/Herdecke University (no. 170/2021). Written informed consent will be obtained from each interested child-significant other dyad. Staff will send or hand out study information, informed consent, and declaration about the usage of video records and will be available to answer any questions by telephone or face to face, e.g. in the clinics. All interested persons will be informed that they can end their participation at any time without giving reasons and without negative consequences. Confidentiality at all levels of the study will be always maintained by diagnosticians, therapists, supervisors, researchers, and staff. They bindingly must declare that no information will be passed on to third parties. The study data will be encrypted by identification codes and stored pseudonymously on the server of Witten/Herdecke University.

: All authors have reviewed the manuscript and agree to publication.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.