ArticleHealth promotion practice2024
Defining "Arts Participation" for Public Health Research.
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- The arts for disease prevention and health promotion: a systematic review.Nature medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Behavioral Phenotyping of Arts Engagement Using 20 Years of the American Time Use Survey.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Cultural Engagement Is Related to Decelerated Physiological Age: Doubly Robust Estimations in a National Cohort Study.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Global Arts Engagement Inequalities in and Outside School: Analyses of 441,183 15-Year-Olds Across 73 Countries.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Traditional arts and events for mental and social well-being: a scoping review framed by intangible cultural heritage.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2026Review
- Arts engagement and mental health: a social psychological framework.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Beyond the more-is-better assumption: latent profiles of visual arts engagement, emotion regulation, and mental health among Chinese non-art-major university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Changes in mental health during participation in Art Pharmacy: a longitudinal study of a U.S. arts-based social prescribing program.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Global inequalities in arts, music or educational organization membership: an epidemiological analysis of 73,825 adults from 51 countries.BMC global and public health · 2025Article
- The effects of viewing visual artwork on patients, staff, and visitors in healthcare settings: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Relationships between arts participation, social cohesion, and well-being: an integrative review of evidence.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- A scoping review of arts in mental health policy in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Identifying and recommending validated measures to assess depression and anxiety outcomes in the field of arts and health.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Creative Aging: Unraveling the Psychosocial Benefits of Art Among Germany's Oldest Old. Findings From the Nationally Representative Study "Old Age in Germany (D80+)".International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychological Benefits of Arts Participation for Emerging Adulthood: A Pathway to Flourishing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A fRAmework of the DetermInants of Arts aNd Cultural Engagement (RADIANCE): integrated insights from ecological, behavioural and complex adaptive systems theories.Wellcome open research · 2024Article
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Abstract
Arts participation has been linked to positive health outcomes around the globe. As more research is taking place on this topic, there is heightened need for definitions for the complex concepts involved. While significant work to define "arts participation" has taken place in the arts sector, less work has been undertaken for the purpose of researching the arts in public health. This study developed a definition for "arts participation" to guide a national arts in public health research agenda and to advance and make more inclusive previous work to define the term. A convergent mixed-methods study design with sequential elements was used to iteratively develop a definition that integrated the perspectives of field experts as well as the general public. Literature review was followed by four iterative phases of data collection, analysis, and integration, and a proposed definition was iteratively revised at each stage. The final definition includes modes, or ways, in which people engage with the arts, and includes examples of various art forms intended to frame arts participation broadly and inclusively. This definition has the potential to help advance the quality and precision of research aimed at evaluating relationships between arts participation and health, as well as outcomes of arts-based health programs and interventions in communities. With its more inclusive framing than previous definitions, it can also help guide the development of more inclusive search strategies for evidence synthesis in this rapidly growing arena and assist researchers in developing more effective survey questions and instruments.
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