The need for robust critique of arts and health research: Dance-movement therapy, girls, and depression

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We examine a highly cited randomized controlled trial on dance-movement therapy with adolescent girls with mild depression and examine its treatment in 14 evidence reviews and meta-analyses of dance research. We demonstrate substantial limitations in the trial which seriously undermine the conclusions reached regarding the effectiveness of dance movement therapy in reducing depression. We also show that the dance research reviews vary substantially in their treatment of the study. Some reviews provide a positive assessment of the study and take its findings at face value without critical commentary. Others are critical of the study, identifying significant limitations, but showing marked differences in Cochrane Risk of Bias assessments. Drawing on recent criticisms of systematic reviewing and meta-analysis, we consider how reviews can be so variable and discuss what is needed to improve the quality of primary studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses in the field of creative arts and health.

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Grebosz-Haring, K., Thun-Hohenstein, L., Schuchter-Wiegand, A. K., Bathke, A. C., & Clift, S. (2023). The need for robust critique of arts and health research: Dance-movement therapy, girls, and depression. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1525(1), 128–139. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15006

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