All Outputs (33)

Music-making for health and wellbeing in youth justice settings: mediated affordances and the impact of context and social relations (2017)
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© 2017 The Authors. Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for SHIL. Young people in the criminal justice system experience significant health and wellbeing issues that often stem from poverty and... Read More about Music-making for health and wellbeing in youth justice settings: mediated affordances and the impact of context and social relations.

Music therapy in children's hospices: An evaluative survey of provision (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This paper presents the results of a survey of the range of music therapy practice in children's hospices in the UK. Music therapists are challenged to work with children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions during... Read More about Music therapy in children's hospices: An evaluative survey of provision.

Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review (2013)
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Youth justice is an important public health issue. There is growing recognition of the need to adopt effective, evidence-based strategies for working with young offenders. Music interventions may be particularly well suited to addressing risk factors... Read More about Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review.

Think of your art-eries: Arts participation, behavioural cardiovascular risk factors and mental well-being in deprived communities in London (2012)
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Objectives: To investigate the association of participation in arts and cultural activities with health behaviours and mental well-being in low-income populations in London. Study design: Cross-sectional, community-based observational study. Methods:... Read More about Think of your art-eries: Arts participation, behavioural cardiovascular risk factors and mental well-being in deprived communities in London.

The healing and spiritual properties of music therapy at a cancer care centre (2012)
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Background: This article explores the theme of spirituality, health, and wellbeing, in relation to an emerging body of research on the impact of music therapy in cancer care. The focus of the article is a music therapy service established as part of... Read More about The healing and spiritual properties of music therapy at a cancer care centre.

Arts and mental health: Enhancing mental healthcare environments (2010)
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Using arts to enhance mental healthcare environments: Findings from qualitative research. (2010)
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Editorial: The arts and global health inequities (2010)
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The state of arts and health in England (2009)
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Alcohol, young people and the media: A study of radio output in six radio stations in England (2009)
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BackgroundThis research investigated the representation of alcohol in radio output. The study was prompted by concerns that media output might be part of a developing culture of excessive drinking among young people.MethodsAlcohol comments were exami... Read More about Alcohol, young people and the media: A study of radio output in six radio stations in England.

The impact of participation in performing arts on adolescent health and behaviour: A systematic review of the literature (2008)
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This article reports a systematic review of literature published between 1994 and 2004 on the effects of performing arts for health in young people aged 11-18. The review includes research on music, performance, drama and dance in community settings... Read More about The impact of participation in performing arts on adolescent health and behaviour: A systematic review of the literature.

The impact of art, design and environment in mental healthcare: A systematic review of the literature (2008)
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Aims: There has been a burgeoning interest in arts and the environment in healthcare. While research has been undertaken on the clinical impact of disciplines, relatively little research has studied the impact of broader arts for health interventions... Read More about The impact of art, design and environment in mental healthcare: A systematic review of the literature.

The impact of art, design and environment in mental healthcare: A systematic review of the literature (2008)
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Creativity, identity and healing: Participants' accounts of music therapy in cancer care (2007)
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This article reports on findings from a study of the accounts of people participating in music therapy as part of a programme of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in supportive cancer care. The article outlines the perceived effects of mus... Read More about Creativity, identity and healing: Participants' accounts of music therapy in cancer care.

Evaluating the impact of patient and public involvement initiatives on UK health services: A systematic review (2007)
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This article reports on a systematic review of the patient and public involvement (PPI) literature in the UK that was undertaken in 2005 to support an evaluation of the Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS) in England.The general PPI literature... Read More about Evaluating the impact of patient and public involvement initiatives on UK health services: A systematic review.

Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers (2006)
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This paper explores the role of music activity and music therapy in health care drawing on a survey of UK cancer care providers offering music interventions and music therapy. The survey examined the extent and type of music provision and explored pr... Read More about Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers.

Disruption, dissonance and embodiment: Creativity, health and risk in music narratives (2005)
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This article explores notions of creativity, health and risk, drawing on interviews with freelance musicians in the UK. The social context of insecure music work is explored along with hegemonic discourses of creativity in which hedonism, risk and sa... Read More about Disruption, dissonance and embodiment: Creativity, health and risk in music narratives.

Developing user involvement in a UK cancer network: Professionals' and users' perspectives (2004)
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This paper explores the results of a consensus development exercise that explored diverse perspectives and sought to identify key principles for the development of user involvement in a cancer network. The exercise took place within one of 34 UK canc... Read More about Developing user involvement in a UK cancer network: Professionals' and users' perspectives.

The role of music in an arts-based qualitative inquiry (2004)
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Divided care and the Third Way: User involvement in statutory and voluntary sector cancer services (2003)
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In health care, as in much of the public sphere, the voluntary sector is playing an increasingly large role in the funding, provision and delivery of services and nowhere is this more apparent than in cancer care. Simultaneously the growth of privati... Read More about Divided care and the Third Way: User involvement in statutory and voluntary sector cancer services.