ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022
The Need for Robust Critique of Arts and Health Research: Young People, Art Therapy and Mental Health.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05379062 (Singing in a Group Compared to Receptive Music and Treatment as a Usual Condition in Patients With Parkinson's Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Singing in a Group Compared to Receptive Music and Treatment as a Usual Condition in Patients With Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Develop Guidelines/Recommendations for Efficient Use
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- The role of arts on prescription in supporting young adults' mental health and life transitions.iScience · 2026Article
- Key effects of inclusive dance for adults with developmental disabilities: embodied agency, relational self-understanding, and conditions of wellbeing.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Enhancing the quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.BJPsych open · 2025Article
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- Co-creating a person-centered creative engagement intervention for Parkinson's care.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Music-based interventions in community settings: Navigating the tension between rigor and ecological validity.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Review
- Creativity in lockdown: Understanding how music and the arts supported mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic by age group.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
We describe work in progress to conduct a systematic review of research on effects of arts-based programs for mental health in young people. We are at the stage of searching for relevant studies through major databases and screening extant systematic reviews for additional research which meet our inclusion criteria. At this stage, however, concerns have arisen regarding both the quality of existing primary studies and of recently published systematic reviews in this area of arts and health. As a case in point, in this paper we focus on one research report on art therapy with adolescent girls and its inclusion in three systematic reviews. We demonstrate that the reviews fail to undertake a robust critique of the Bazargan and Pakdaman paper and that the paper and reviews are flawed. Drawing on recent criticisms of systematic reviewing, we consider the value of proceeding with our systematic review as initially planned.
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