Arts & Health

Papers
(The TQCC of Arts & Health is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Applying arts to health interventions and health research in Ghana: a scoping review19
“We are still doing some magic”: Exploring the effectiveness of online therapeutic clowning16
Creating healing spaces and promoting well-being through clay-work in children’s hospitals12
Crafting representations of rare disease: collage as qualitative inquiry10
Transformative and therapeutic benefits of digital storytelling: a phenomenological lifeworlds study of Patient Voices participant experiences8
Visual representations of coping with body dysmorphic disorder: a multimodal hermeneutic phenomenological approach7
Dance harnesses humanity in exercise: perceptions of dance following an adapted dance program for people with chronic stroke7
The use of creative art therapy to address the mental health of refugee adolescents: a systematic review7
What are the research priorities in dance for dementia? A co-created agenda to support equitable research7
Correction6
Using Ripple Effects Mapping to understand the longer-term impacts of delivering a dance programme for older adults on dance artists6
Dying matters – innovating spaces to foster end-of-life discussions with applied theatre6
Creative writing as a means to recover from early psychosis– Experiences from a group intervention6
Connecting the dots: The state of arts and health in Singapore5
How participatory arts can contribute to Dutch older adults’ wellbeing – revisiting a taxonomy of arts interventions for people with dementia4
Help is on its Way: Exploring the Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes of a Massed Community Choir Program4
Resourcing the arts for youth well-being: challenges in Aotearoa New Zealand4
“When I go back to painting, I am ‘Alice in Wonderland”: older women coping with age-related crises through visual artmaking4
Reducing tobacco and nicotine use among women in treatment for substance use disorder: evaluation of the knit to quit program4
“Enough reality that you took it seriously, enough humour that you kept watching”: a qualitative analysis of student reception of Larry Saves the Canadian healthcare system3
Healing through music3
The use of “art” as a resource in recovery from the impact of sexual abuse in childhood: A qualitative systematic review3
Exploring the impact of expressive therapies on military veterans with PTSD: A systematic review3
A randomised controlled trial (RCT) exploring the impact of a photography intervention on wellbeing and posttraumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic3
“Always be relevant”: a phenomenological study of the actor’s workday2
A visit toDavid’s World: exploring the impact of a passive art intervention on hospitalized children’s wellbeing, engagement, and joy2
Care-giving experiences of parents of young people with PMLD and complex healthcare needs in the transition to adulthood years: a qualitative poetic synthesis2
“To do and see what happens, instead of planning for something to happen”, a qualitative study on how professional artists working in a palliative care setting shape their practice2
Physiotherapists use dance in their clinical practice in creative and diverse ways2
Am I Broken? : A mixed-method analysis of an ethnotheatrical performance about women’s experiences with infertility and friendship2
The psychometric properties of a novel task-based dance self-efficacy measure for older adult dance program participants2
Enhancing social connections through an acting and improvisation course for older Americans in low-income housing2
Decolonising research and folk media: a methodology for Exploring narratives of HIV and AIDS in rural Malawi2
Rehearsing empathy: exploring the role of poetry in supporting learning2
Experiences of acquired brain injury survivors participating in online and hybrid performance arts programmes: an ethnographic study2
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