OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Arts & Health is 0. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
“We are still doing some magic”: Exploring the effectiveness of online therapeutic clowning	26
Comparing Engagement Across Online Arts Forms in Older Adults: A Mixed-Methods Study of Five Disciplines	17
Crafting representations of rare disease: collage as qualitative inquiry	11
Applying arts to health interventions and health research in Ghana: a scoping review	11
The use of creative art therapy to address the mental health of refugee adolescents: a systematic review	9
Creating healing spaces and promoting well-being through clay-work in children’s hospitals	9
The effectiveness of art therapy in addressing emotional and behavioral issues and enhancing self-esteem of children living in residential childcare institutions: a feasibility study in Kerala, India	9
Dance harnesses humanity in exercise: perceptions of dance following an adapted dance program for people with chronic stroke	7
Transformative and therapeutic benefits of digital storytelling: a phenomenological lifeworlds study of Patient Voices participant experiences	7
What are the research priorities in dance for dementia? A co-created agenda to support equitable research	7
Reflections from the Culture Box Live exhibition and training course	7
Visual representations of coping with body dysmorphic disorder: a multimodal hermeneutic phenomenological approach	6
Singing for self-affirmation and healing: how Black young people articulate growth and mental health through music	6
Correction	6
Creative writing as a means to recover from early psychosis– Experiences from a group intervention	5
Using Ripple Effects Mapping to understand the longer-term impacts of delivering a dance programme for older adults on dance artists	5
Dying matters – innovating spaces to foster end-of-life discussions with applied theatre	5
How participatory arts can contribute to Dutch older adults’ wellbeing – revisiting a taxonomy of arts interventions for people with dementia	4
“When I go back to painting, I am ‘Alice in Wonderland”: older women coping with age-related crises through visual artmaking	4
Help is on its Way: Exploring the Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes of a Massed Community Choir Program	4
Reducing tobacco and nicotine use among women in treatment for substance use disorder: evaluation of the knit to quit program	4
A medicine called art: a narrative analysis of women with multiple sclerosis’ perceptions of art classes in Iran	4
“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 system	4
A randomised controlled trial (RCT) exploring the impact of a photography intervention on wellbeing and posttraumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Does Creative Bibliotherapy delivered in schools improve mental health-related outcomes for 5–16 year olds? A systematic review	3

Healing through music	3
Care-giving experiences of parents of young people with PMLD and complex healthcare needs in the transition to adulthood years: a qualitative poetic synthesis	3
The use of “art” as a resource in recovery from the impact of sexual abuse in childhood: A qualitative systematic review	3
Exploring the impact of expressive therapies on military veterans with PTSD: A systematic review	3
Enhancing social connections through an acting and improvisation course for older Americans in low-income housing	2
Rehearsing empathy: exploring the role of poetry in supporting learning	2
Decolonising research and folk media: a methodology for Exploring narratives of HIV and AIDS in rural Malawi	2
Experiences of acquired brain injury survivors participating in online and hybrid performance arts programmes: an ethnographic study	2
“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 practice	2
Landscapes of silence: designing quiet art spaces for inner peace in urban chaos	2
Am I Broken? : A mixed-method analysis of an ethnotheatrical performance about women’s experiences with infertility and friendship	2
Physiotherapists use dance in their clinical practice in creative and diverse ways	2
The potential of narrative-based medicine interventions targeting hospital practitioner burnout: findings from a scoping review	2
Exploring the role of creative arts in recovery following a suicide attempt amongst healthcare staff	2
A visit to David’s World : exploring the impact of a passive art intervention on hospitalized children’s wellbeing, engagement, and joy	2
“Always be relevant”: a phenomenological study of the actor’s workday	2
Enhancing medical students’ proficiency in coping with chronic health conditions – accounts of a poetic approach to learning in type 2 diabetes clinical simulation	2
Health education empowered through arts interventions	1
Exploring the experiences of high-risk groups during the first UK Covid-19 lockdown through creative methods	1
Promoting the well-being of infants and caregivers through music: insights from the lullaby project’s international convening	1
The need for robust critique of arts and health research: the treatment of the Gene Cohen et al. (2006) paper on singing, wellbeing and health in subsequent evidence reviews	1
The impact of arts-inclusive programs on young children’s mental health and wellbeing: a rapid review	1
Photography and perinatal loss: parents’ experiences of memory-making and meaning	1
Efficacy of a theatre-based intervention in patients with Parkinson’s disease	1
Theatre, disability and wellbeing: addressing best practice and creative outcomes across disabled and non-disabled communities through an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	1
Impact of dance interventions on the symptoms of dementia: A mixed-methods systematic review	1
Participatory cultural decision-making as governance for health and wellbeing	1
The complex nature of boundary work in arts and health: a reflective journey in a social design project	1
Visual art- and music-based interventions as adjuvants in the treatment of eating disorders: a systematic review and a theoretical model	1
Videoconference-based Creativity Workshops for mental health staff during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
An investigation of the acute effects of dance on heart rate variability in people with Parkinson’s	1
Music facilitation styles and behaviours across the health-care continuum: explanatory multiple case studies	1
“ How I Learned About Consent ”: Influences of research-based theatre on sexual consent attitudes	1
You’ve danced	1
Dance with the senses. A dance class with visual impaired and sighted children in a conservatory: one-year experience	1
The role of the arts at the intersection of climate change and public Health: findings from an international survey	0
Music and well-being in carceral settings: a scoping review	0
Better live to music and dance	0
“We’re still seeing people on the screen, we still keeping our bodies moving”: exploring the transition from face to face to online dance classes for community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-1	0
In the twilight zone: between AI and nursing	0
Exploring the use of musical activities implemented in home-based dementia care as part of the HOMESIDE study	0
Dancing is a gift for the body: exploring embodied mindfulness and influences of dance on wellbeing	0
Impact of creative dance on subjective well-being amongst older adults: an arts-informed photo-elicitation study	0
‘But it makes me uncomfortable’: the challenges and opportunities of research poetry	0
What do we mean by ‘creative health’? The benefits of defining ‘creativity’ in the arts and health field	0
Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas	0
“Unplug to recharge”: accessing respite through song in a culturally and linguistically diverse perinatal context	0
Exploring facilitator perspectives on four participatory music-based interventions for perinatal mental health: a qualitative study	0
The associations between arts and humanities engagement and well-being in a representative sample of United States residents during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Afternoon at the museum: psychological wellbeing and social connectedness among LGBT older adults	0

Cultural dementia care: a review of Museum-led programmes for informal caregivers	0
Exploring uses of visual arts-based interventions for mental health of marginalized populations: a scoping review	0
The impact of theatre on social competencies: a meta-analytic evaluation	0
Wellbeing in the wild: co-creating context-sensitive wellbeing dimensions with a community of young artists	0
The state of arts and health in the Republic of Korea	0
The Black Saturday bushfire disaster: found poetry for arts-based knowledge translation in disaster risk and climate change communication	0
Painting through grief and loss: an autoethnographic arts-based inquiry	0
Community health promotion and disaster recovery: a PhotoVoice project in Comerío, Puerto Rico	0
Dementia Arts Mapping: observational methods for documenting impacts of poetry and recreation in care settings	0
Pyracanthas	0
Outcomes and experiences of an art workshop on young people’s symptoms of depression and anxiety in Peru: a non-controlled trial	0
Digital and traditional arts for inpatients with dementia: a feasibility study	0
“You’re sort of building community in a bigger way”: exploring the potential of creative, nature-based activities to facilitate community connections	0
Poetry in youth mutual aid groups for recovery in rural and semi-urban environments	0
An Indian classical dance form, Kathak in maintaining handgrip strength symmetry and reducing the risk of hypertension	0
Bringing health research to life: readers theatre as an innovative knowledge translation strategy	0
So much more than a headache: understanding migraine through literature So much more than a headache: understanding migraine through literature , edited by Kathleen J. O	0
The experience of visual art for people living with mild-to-moderate vision loss	0
A review of theatre interventions and mental health: inspiration, elicitation and dissemination	0
How adults with chronic health conditions made self-administered music interventions (SAMIs) work: thematic synthesis from a mixed-studies systematic review	0
The presentation of self in everyday young lives with pain: a poetic meta-ethnography	0
Digital adaptations to arts programme delivery for people living with dementia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Transitioning relational arts for persons living with dementia to a virtual space	0
Art-based interventions and art therapy to promote health of migrant populations – a systematic literature review of current research	0
Music interventions with children, adolescents and emerging adults in mental health settings: a scoping review	0
Art, meditation and cognitive science: a framework for museum-based community meditation programme during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore	0
Nine years, eight counts	0
Trust in the patient–provider relationship: an arts-based research film exploring trust in adolescents and young adults with HIV	0
Effect of creative art therapy (CATs) on depressive symptoms and quality of life among Jordanian community-dwelling older people: an experimental study	0
Correction	0
Testing the potential therapeutic effects of an online creative arts-based intervention for people with anxiety	0
Therapeutic effects of line dancing in people with multiple sclerosis: an evaluator-blinded, randomized controlled study	0
Correction	0
A call to rethink music interventions implementation to address health disparities	0
Narratives in context: a cellphilm study of the social experiences of persons with psychosis from different ethnic, racial and migrant backgrounds	0
Assessing impact on quality of life from “Unmasked Connections”: delivering personalized intimate arts performances to people in long-term care	0
Creative arts and healing among veterans: impacts of community-based photography workshops on veterans’ well-being and quality of life	0
Listening to caregivers’ voices about the experience of integrating music therapy-informed activity in community-based rehabilitation in rural India	0
Art-based interventions for health and wellbeing in rural, remote and island communities: a literature review of current research	0
The benefits of caregiver singing and receptive music in dementia care: a qualitative study of professional caregivers’ experiences	0
The effect of dance on physical health and cognition in community dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	0
Shadows and seeds	0
Can self-guided colouring improve university student wellbeing, mental health, and mindfulness?	0
Italian adolescents’ perception of tele-psychodrama treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Live, hope, dialysis	0
Exploring social worker views on transgender and non-binary rights in Aotearoa New Zealand using a poemish method	0
A qualitative systematic review of the experiences of sharing music for people living with dementia and their family care partners: the thread of connection	0
Synapse Ashes	0
Exploring the potential of creative museum-led activities to support stroke In-patient rehabilitation and wellbeing: A pilot mixed-methods study	0
Psychodrama as group intervention on minority stress, identity and psychosocial well-being of LGBTQ+ Italian young adults: A qualitative case study	0
Effects of choir singing on physiological stress in Japanese older adults: its relationship with cognitive functioning and subjective well-being	0
A myth-busting mental health tour of the National Gallery in London: Facilitators and challenges to its development and evaluation	0