Identifying and recommending validated measures to assess depression and anxiety outcomes in the field of arts and health.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Interest in the use of arts-based interventions to improve mental health outcomes has been emerging in healthcare and community settings. However, rigorous evaluation and research on the effectiveness of these interventions are still limited. Various resources have been published to encourage an expansion and improvement in the quality of the evidence base in this intersectional field. Yet, many of these resources either stop short of recommending validated outcome measures or provide justifications when they do so, nor do they identify the prevalence of use of these outcome measures. We provide practitioners in the field with recommended measures, identified through a prevalence analysis in the literature, and the associated considerations that practitioners should co

SUBMITTER: Ilya N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12442041 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature