Arts engagement trends in the United Kingdom and their mental and social wellbeing implications: HEartS Survey.

ABSTRACT: Evidence on the role of the arts in promoting health and wellbeing has grown over the last two decades. In the United Kingdom, studies using secondary data sources have documented temporal variations in levels of arts engagement in the population, its determinants and its mental wellbeing implications. However, arts engagement is often characterized by prioritizing "high-brow" art forms. In this article, we introduce the HEartS Survey, a tool that aims to increase the balance between inclusivity and brevity of existing arts engagement measures and to focus specifically on the connection between arts engagement and social wellbeing. We explore trends in participatory and receptive engagement with literary, visual, performing, crafts and decorative arts among 5,338 adults in the UK in 2018-2

SUBMITTER: Tymoszuk U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7954337 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature