1. Effects of art therapy in cancer care: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
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Junsheng Peng, Qin-Qin Xie, Xi-Jie Chen, Shi Chen, Xiao-Han Jiang, and Yong‐Shen Feng
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Art therapy ,Anxiety ,Cochrane Library ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life ,Neoplasms ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Fatigue ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Depression ,business.industry ,Art Therapy ,Cancer ,medicine.disease ,Confidence interval ,Oncology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Meta-analysis ,Quality of Life ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of art therapy on cancer patients' quality of life and physical and psychological symptoms. METHODS The databases PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, The Cochrane Library, Clinical Trial.gov, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang and the Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM) were searched from their inception up to 20 August 2019. Trials examining the effects of art therapy on physical and psychological symptoms and quality of life versus a control group were included. The methodological quality of the included randomised controlled trials was assessed using the risk of bias tool of Cochrane Handbook. Meanwhile, the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale (NOS) was used to evaluate the methodological quality of the non-randomised studies. RESULTS Twelve studies involving 587 cancer patients were included. The results revealed that art therapy significantly reduced anxiety symptoms (standard mean difference [SMD] = -0.46, 95% confidence interval [CI] [-0.90, 0.02], p = .04), depression symptoms (SMD = -0.47, 95% CI [-0.72, 0.21], p
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- 2020
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