Quasi-experimental study compares cognitive rehabilitation and binaural beats on creativity and academic performance in university students, indicating differing effects.
This study compared the effects of cognitive rehabilitation and binaural beats on creativity, psychological well-being, and academic performance in 45 undergraduate students using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with a control group. Creativity, well-being, and academic performance were assessed via validated questionnaires. The MANCOVA results revealed a significant overall effect of the interventions. Follow-up univariate analyses, controlling for pretest scores, showed that cognitive rehabilitation significantly improved creativity and academic performance, while binaural beats enhanced academic performance but not creativity. No intervention had a significant effect on psychological well-being. Effect sizes were large for academic performance, medium for creativity, and negligible for well-being. These findings suggest that cognitive rehabilitation was associated with significant improvements in both creativity and academic outcomes, whereas binaural beats may provide limited short-term benefits in academic performance, with neither intervention affecting psychological well-being in the short term.
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