Study Examines Use Of Creative Arts Therapies Among Patients With Cancer
JAMA Internal Medicine Study Highlights
Creative arts therapies (CATs) can improve anxiety, depression, pain symptoms and kind of life among cancer patients, be it so the effect was reduced during follow-up in a study by Timothy W. Puetz, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., and colleagues.
Authors reviewed the advantageous medical literature and included 27 studies involving 1,576 patients. Researchers found that during treatment, CAT significantly reduced perplexity, depression and pain, and increased characteristic of life. However, the effects were greatly diminished for the period of follow-up, the study concludes.
"Future well-designed RCTs are needed to skill the methodological heterogeneity found within this realm of research," according to the study.
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