This review documents arts applied to health interventions and health research in Ghana, examines evidence of their impact on health outcomes, and identifies research and practice gaps.

Actors face a demanding entertainment industry characterised by understaffing, precarious working conditions, temporary contracts, intense work pressure, and rigorous performance expectations. These challenges create barriers in their workday and influence their health and well-being.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused mandatory lockdowns worldwide, exacerbating mental health issues created by social isolation. Aimed to improve mental health and maintain engagement, the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) rapidly deployed an online programme called Unwind with SAM to engage the public with the museum's contemporary art collection coupled with meditation. The programme focused on the positive effect of arts on mental health, combined with the cognitive benefits of meditation by 'slow-looking' at artworks. This practice-based report reflects on the processes and explores the potential between art, contemplation and cognitive sciences. The first section outlines the current landscape of art and wellness approaches in museums. The second section explains the philosophical framework that guides the programme, alongside a breakdown of components and design rationale. The final part provides a critical reflection and concludes with recommendations for practitioners, managers and scientists to utilise the framework for designing future programmes.

The COVID-19 outbreak meant that people were unable to attend art-based community classes such as dance. In response, activities transitioned to digital modes of delivery. In this study, we aimed to explore the feasibility, inclusivity, and impact of transitioning to an online dance class.

There is a gap in the field of dance for dementia regarding how to engage in and improve equitable, moral, and rights-based ways of working with those with lived experience to co-design research priorities. We set out to create a collaborative research agenda for this field.

Increasing evidence highlights the benefits and importance of discussing End-of-Life (EoL), yet many people struggle to talk openly about death and dying. This practice-based report details the development of , an applied theatre performance designed to encourage EoL conversations with loved ones. The combination of lived experience monologues and reflection activities appeared to provide an inspiring and supportive experience. The team observed many attendees actively taking moments during the performance to ponder and write their response to EoL preferences prompts. Further application of this work is recommended to engage a broader community and to enhance healthcare professional training.

Mindfulness-based interventions can successfully improve wellbeing in young adults. Mindful colouring is an applied mindfulness practice and improves short-term wellbeing. Less evidence is available about the effectiveness of regular, self-guided colouring. We investigated a self-guided two-week colouring intervention for university student wellbeing.

Growing attention is given to LGBTQ+ well-being, mainly using the minority stress model, although it's seldom applied in group therapy research. This study aims to investigate individual experiences and identity processes related to minority stress while exploring the effectiveness of group psychodrama on LGBTQ+ well-being and stress levels.

Creative art therapy (CAT) has become increasingly popular as a means of promoting positive mental health among adolescent refugees when accompanied by interdisciplinary interventions that engage families and communities. In this pre-registered systematic review (PROSPERO: CRD42022372538), we evaluated and synthesized the available literature reporting the use of CAT as a diagnostic, treatment and mental health promotion intervention with adolescent refugees, aged 10-24 years.

To map the empirical literature with regards to narrative-based medicine interventions targeting burnout in hospital-based practitioners.

The creative process of visual artmaking provides an opportunity for older women to express themselves and explore their emotions, thoughts, and experiences. This study examined the roles of visual artmaking in older women's lives in general and in relation to the ongoing challenges of aging.

This project is part of a four-year intercultural collaboration between Indian and Australian stakeholders studying to use of music therapy (MT)-informed activity in community-based rehabilitation (CBR) with disabled children and their families in rural Maharashtra. This paper presents a qualitative study of caregiver perspectives.

There are a lack of studies examining the effect of creative art therapy on older people. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of creative art therapy on reducing depressive symptoms and improving the quality of life among Jordanian older people.

References to transformative and therapeutic benefits of digital storytelling are often made, yet this remains an under-explored area, which we foreground in this study.

Creative arts-based interventions are a relatively new addition to the toolkit of psychological treatments for mental afflictions. As such, the therapeutic efficacy of these therapies when conducted remotely via digital media has been under-researched. To address this gap, this study tested the effects of an online creative arts-based intervention to alleviate anxiety.

This study evaluated an ethnotheatrical performance about infertility to bring awareness to the health condition and its impact on friendships.

In the context of ongoing underrepresentation of disabled people and shifts in the theatre industry, this article examines the significance of personal disability understandings and how these are interpreted in relation to the wellbeing of disabled people in theatre.

In Malawi, well-meaning HIV and AIDS interventions imagined in the "Global North" continue to ignore how local people construct the world. This paper explores how folk media can be used to enable research on HIV and AIDS to be positioned within localised cultural paradigms.

The present paper aimed to study handgrip strength (HGS) asymmetry and its association with hypertension in a sample of Kathak dancers and non-dancers of North India.

The intentions of this scoping review are to determine current uses of visual arts-based interventions for mental health and trauma support of marginalized populations, and to identify current gaps in knowledge in this emergent field.