Group music therapy with songwriting for adult patients with long-term depression (SYNCHRONY study): a feasibility and acceptability study of the intervention and parallel randomised controlled trial design with wait-list control and nested process evaluation

Table 7 Adverse events and classification by treatment arm

Event	Classification	During treatment	During follow-up assessments	Treatment N = 20	Control N = 10	Expected?	Related?
Verbal threat	Adverse event	1	0	1	0	Expected	Probably unrelated
Increased suicide risk	Adverse event	1^a	2	2	1	Expected	Unrelated
Disclosure of risk to self/others	Adverse event	0	1	1	0	Expected	Probably unrelated
Hospitalisation	Serious adverse event	0	1	1^b	0	Expected	Unrelated
Faint during research assessment	Adverse event	0	1	0	1	Unexpected	Unrelated
Homelessness	Safeguarding alert	2	0	2	0	Unexpected	Unrelated
Total number of events		4	5	7	2

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