ReviewPerspectives in public health2024
Critical perspectives on Arts on Prescription.
Review in Perspectives in public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Arts on prescription for wellbeing in adults: systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of arts on prescription on individual health and wellbeing: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Feasibility of an Online Shared Reading Intervention in Survivors of Gynecological Cancer: Protocol for a Multiple-Baseline Single-Case Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Cultural Prescribing: Concepts, Evidence, Implementation, and the Contribution of Socially Engaged Art.Yonago acta medica · 2026Review
- Harms and Negative or Unintended Consequences of Social Prescribing: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- "Share Your Trauma… and Make It Funny": Comedy as Catharsis and Community-Building in LGBTQ+ Mental Wellbeing and Resilience.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The role of arts on prescription in supporting young adults' mental health and life transitions.iScience · 2026Article
- Cross-sector perspectives on the role of a UK national cultural asset in social prescribing: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Social prescribing of cultural opportunities to support health and wellbeing: the importance of language, community engagement, and inclusion in developing local approaches.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Implementing Arts on Prescription at Home for People Living With Dementia: A Hybrid-Effectiveness Feasibility Study.Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology · 2025Article
- Identifying and recommending validated measures to assess depression and anxiety outcomes in the field of arts and health.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Apples and oranges? The importance of recognizing heterogeneity in arts and health research publications.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- 'The book's a conversation starter': a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure.Medical humanities · 2024Article
- 'Unmasking Pain' through creativity: A phenomenological study of person-centred pain exploration for people living with chronic pain.PloS one · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The positive outcomes of engaging in the arts are increasingly reported in the research literature, supporting the use of the arts to enhance individual and community health and wellbeing. However, little attention is given to the less positive aspects of arts engagement. In some countries, healthcare practitioners and link workers can refer service-users experiencing mental health issues to social interventions such as Arts on Prescription (AoP) programmes. This critical review identifies problematic issues across such social prescriptions and AoP, including failures in arts and health projects, participants' negative experiences, and an absence of ethical guidelines for arts and health practice. Furthermore, it is evident that there is a lack of awareness and knowledge within healthcare systems, leading to inappropriate referrals, failure to take account of individual preferences, and a lack of communication between the third sector and healthcare services. Significantly, it is also unclear who holds the health responsibility for AoP participants. This article raises more questions than it answers, but for AoP to be effectively embedded in healthcare practice, the issues highlighted need to be addressed in order to safeguard participants and support the effective implementation of programmes more widely.
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