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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Applying arts to health interventions and health research in Ghana: a scoping review	19
“We are still doing some magic”: Exploring the effectiveness of online therapeutic clowning	16
Creating healing spaces and promoting well-being through clay-work in children’s hospitals	12
Crafting representations of rare disease: collage as qualitative inquiry	10
Transformative and therapeutic benefits of digital storytelling: a phenomenological lifeworlds study of Patient Voices participant experiences	8
Dance harnesses humanity in exercise: perceptions of dance following an adapted dance program for people with chronic stroke	7
The use of creative art therapy to address the mental health of refugee adolescents: a systematic review	7
What are the research priorities in dance for dementia? A co-created agenda to support equitable research	7
Visual representations of coping with body dysmorphic disorder: a multimodal hermeneutic phenomenological approach	7
Correction	6
Using Ripple Effects Mapping to understand the longer-term impacts of delivering a dance programme for older adults on dance artists	6
Dying matters – innovating spaces to foster end-of-life discussions with applied theatre	6
Creative writing as a means to recover from early psychosis– Experiences from a group intervention	6
Connecting the dots: The state of arts and health in Singapore	5
How participatory arts can contribute to Dutch older adults’ wellbeing – revisiting a taxonomy of arts interventions for people with dementia	4
Help is on its Way: Exploring the Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes of a Massed Community Choir Program	4
Resourcing the arts for youth well-being: challenges in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
“When I go back to painting, I am ‘Alice in Wonderland”: older women coping with age-related crises through visual artmaking	4
Reducing tobacco and nicotine use among women in treatment for substance use disorder: evaluation of the knit to quit program	4
Healing through music	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
A randomised controlled trial (RCT) exploring the impact of a photography intervention on wellbeing and posttraumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
“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	3
“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

Physiotherapists use dance in their clinical practice in creative and diverse ways	2
Am I Broken? : A mixed-method analysis of an ethnotheatrical performance about women’s experiences with infertility and friendship	2
The psychometric properties of a novel task-based dance self-efficacy measure for older adult dance program participants	2
Enhancing social connections through an acting and improvisation course for older Americans in low-income housing	2
Decolonising research and folk media: a methodology for Exploring narratives of HIV and AIDS in rural Malawi	2
Rehearsing empathy: exploring the role of poetry in supporting learning	2
Experiences of acquired brain injury survivors participating in online and hybrid performance arts programmes: an ethnographic study	2
“Always be relevant”: a phenomenological study of the actor’s workday	2
A visit toDavid’s World: exploring the impact of a passive art intervention on hospitalized children’s wellbeing, engagement, and joy	2
Care-giving experiences of parents of young people with PMLD and complex healthcare needs in the transition to adulthood years: a qualitative poetic synthesis	2
The potential of narrative-based medicine interventions targeting hospital practitioner burnout: findings from a scoping review	1
Art as relaxation for tic disorders: a pilot randomised control study	1
An investigation of the acute effects of dance on heart rate variability in people with Parkinson’s	1
The impact of arts-inclusive programs on young children’s mental health and wellbeing: a rapid review	1
Efficacy of a theatre-based intervention in patients with Parkinson’s disease	1
Impact of dance interventions on the symptoms of dementia: A mixed-methods systematic review	1
Videoconference-based Creativity Workshops for mental health staff during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Music facilitation styles and behaviours across the health-care continuum: explanatory multiple case studies	1
The meaning of art in palliative care from the end users’ perspective	1
Exploring the experiences of high-risk groups during the first UK Covid-19 lockdown through creative methods	1
Theatre, disability and wellbeing: addressing best practice and creative outcomes across disabled and non-disabled communities through an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	1
Promoting the well-being of infants and caregivers through music: insights from the lullaby project’s international convening	1
Negotiating boundaries: reflections on the ethics of arts-based and artistic research in care contexts	1
Dance with the senses. A dance class with visual impaired and sighted children in a conservatory: one-year experience	1
Re-activating life skills in cancer patients through expressive-creative workshops: A qualitative exploratory study	0
The theatre as therapy for military veterans? Exploring the mechanisms which impact psychosocial well-being and social connections during theatre-based programmes	0
Community health promotion and disaster recovery: a PhotoVoice project in Comerío, Puerto Rico	0
Art-based interventions and art therapy to promote health of migrant populations – a systematic literature review of current research	0
“ How I Learned About Consent ”: Influences of research-based theatre on sexual consent attitudes	0
“You’re sort of building community in a bigger way”: exploring the potential of creative, nature-based activities to facilitate community connections	0
Visual art- and music-based interventions as adjuvants in the treatment of eating disorders: a systematic review and a theoretical model	0
In the twilight zone: between AI and nursing	0
Impact of an artist-in-residence program in a complex continuing care hospital: a quality improvement investigation	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
Qualitative insights into the palliative care experience of a hospice-based sensory room	0
The benefits of caregiver singing and receptive music in dementia care: a qualitative study of professional caregivers’ experiences	0
Embodied storytelling and meaning-making at the end of life: VoicingHan avatar life-review for palliative care in cancer patients	0
Music in the life of nursing home residents	0
Therapeutic effects of line dancing in people with multiple sclerosis: an evaluator-blinded, randomized controlled study	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
Correction	0
Testing the potential therapeutic effects of an online creative arts-based intervention for people with anxiety	0
Exploring facilitator perspectives on four participatory music-based interventions for perinatal mental health: a qualitative study	0
Psychodrama as group intervention on minority stress, identity and psychosocial well-being of LGBTQ+ Italian young adults: A qualitative case study	0
Synapse Ashes	0
The complex nature of boundary work in arts and health: a reflective journey in a social design project	0
Effects of choir singing on physiological stress in Japanese older adults: its relationship with cognitive functioning and subjective well-being	0
Using creative, sensory and embodied research methods when working with people with dementia: a method story	0
Digital adaptations to arts programme delivery for people living with dementia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	0

Outcomes and experiences of an art workshop on young people’s symptoms of depression and anxiety in Peru: a non-controlled trial	0
Pyracanthas	0
Using the performance arts to address a “methods gap” in dementia research	0
Poetry in youth mutual aid groups for recovery in rural and semi-urban environments	0
‘But it makes me uncomfortable’: the challenges and opportunities of research poetry	0
Listening to caregivers’ voices about the experience of integrating music therapy-informed activity in community-based rehabilitation in rural India	0
“Unplug to recharge”: accessing respite through song in a culturally and linguistically diverse perinatal context	0
Italian adolescents’ perception of tele-psychodrama treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
The Black Saturday bushfire disaster: found poetry for arts-based knowledge translation in disaster risk and climate change communication	0
Exploring the potential of creative museum-led activities to support stroke In-patient rehabilitation and wellbeing: A pilot mixed-methods study	0
Music and well-being in carceral settings: a scoping review	0
Transitioning relational arts for persons living with dementia to a virtual space	0
Effect of creative art therapy (CATs) on depressive symptoms and quality of life among Jordanian community-dwelling older people: an experimental study	0
Can self-guided colouring improve university student wellbeing, mental health, and mindfulness?	0
Live music in hospital oncology settings: environmental, interpersonal, and personal outcomes for staff, patients, and carers	0
The state of arts and health in the Republic of Korea	0
Effectiveness of creative arts-based interventions for treating children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events: a systematic review of the quantitative evidence and meta-analysis	0
Art, meditation and cognitive science: a framework for museum-based community meditation programme during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore	0
A myth-busting mental health tour of the National Gallery in London: Facilitators and challenges to its development and evaluation	0
Correction	0
Better live to music and dance	0
Dementia Arts Mapping: observational methods for documenting impacts of poetry and recreation in care settings	0
An Indian classical dance form, Kathak in maintaining handgrip strength symmetry and reducing the risk of hypertension	0
The impact of theatre on social competencies: a meta-analytic evaluation	0
Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas	0
Impact of creative dance on subjective well-being amongst older adults: an arts-informed photo-elicitation study	0
The experience of visual art for people living with mild-to-moderate vision loss	0
Exploring uses of visual arts-based interventions for mental health of marginalized populations: a scoping review	0
Music interventions with children, adolescents and emerging adults in mental health settings: a scoping review	0
The presentation of self in everyday young lives with pain: a poetic meta-ethnography	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
A call to rethink music interventions implementation to address health disparities	0
The effect of dance on physical health and cognition in community dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	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