Art therapy for schizophrenia?

Authors
Category Broad synthesis / Living FRISBEE
JournalMedwave
Year 2017
Art therapy is used as a complementary treatment to antipsychotics in schizophrenia. However, its effectiveness is not clear. To answer this question, we searched in Epistemonikos database, which is maintained by screening multiple databases. We identified five systematic reviews including 20 studies overall, of which four were randomized trials. We extracted data and prepared summary of findings tables using the GRADE method. We concluded it is not clear whether art therapy leads to clinical improvement in schizophrenia because the certainty of the evidence is very low.
Epistemonikos ID: 2d6aba0564b8f4a507dfe7d8ec6cf5707308930e
First added on: Aug 01, 2017