Aims: Recent reviews have demonstrated broad links between performing arts participation (e.g. music-making; dancing; acting) and receptive engagement (e.g. listening to music; attending a dance/theatre performance) and improved health, including reduced disease and mortality risk. However, no...

Suicide is a leading cause of death all over the world. Suicide prevention is possible and should be pursued through a variety of strategies. The importance of the arts for positive health outcomes has been increasingly evidenced. This scoping review aimed to identify the possible role of the ...

Background: Youth with disabilities are a marginalised group in society. This marginalisation traps them and prevents their full participation in social and economic development. Objective: This study sought to understand how exposure to the Performing Arts facilitates the inclusion of youth with...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate hazards in theater venues on the performance day by combining operational risk theory with a service blueprint method. Design/methodology/approach: Interviews and Delphi method are applied to find the hazards, then a survey and ANOVA are followed. The study...

Purpose: Loneliness in older adulthood is a societal and public health challenge warranting identification of sustainable and community-based protective factors. This study investigated whether frequency of receptive arts engagement is associated with lower odds of loneliness in older adults....

In today's culture of the medical profession, it is fairly unusual for students to actually witness physicians talking with patients about anything outside scientific explanation. That other side of medicine - the one that goes beyond explanation to understanding - goes unexplored, and the...

Dementia is a neurodegenerative syndrome that can lead to profound psychological and social challenges for people with dementia and their informal caregivers. Previous research has found positive effects of arts-based interventions for people with dementia and caregivers that have been dyadic in...

Background: There is a large literature on the health benefits of engagement with the arts. However, there are also well-recognised challenges in ensuring equity of engagement with these activities. Specifically, it remains unclear whether individuals with poor mental health experience more...

Music has been an indispensable part of our lives for centuries. It has sometimes been used as a substitute for verbal communication. Emotions conveyed through instruments or singing and with sounds through musical notes can have an effect on the sick parts of our body. It is revealed day by day...

As aesthetic athletes, professional dancers have increased vulnerability for eating disorders (EDs), with three times higher risk than non-dancers. Among ballet dancers, generalized risk for EDs associated with internalization of western cultural female beauty ideals is compounded by idealization...