Review protocol

Topic

Interventions/ epidemiology

Review question(s)

What are the effects of different types of art therapy in patients with a personality disorder?

 Sub-question(s)

 

 Objectives

Relative efficacy of different art therapies

Benefits and harms of art therapies

Criteria for considering studies for the review
  • Types of participants

People with a personality disorder
  • Intervention

Different types of art therapy
  • Comparator

Treatment as usual (TAU) or other treatment

Waiting list or no treatment

Comparison with one or multiple other artistic-therapeutic treatments1

 

1NB with this comparator no conclusions can be drawn with respect to efficacy of individual treatment.
  • Critical outcomes
  •  kwaliteit van leven/positieve geestelijke gezondheid

 
  • Important outcomes
  • emotioneel functioneren
  • lijdensdruk en disfunctioneren
  • symptomatisch herstel
  • sociaal herstel

uitval (surrogaat voor adverse events)
  • Time

Studies of any duration were included
  • Study design

RCT’s
  • Dosage

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  • Study setting/country

Including primary, secondary, tertiary health and social

care and healthcare settings

Search strategy

Databases searched: Pubmed, PsycInfo, Cochrane database

of systematic reviews

Date limiters: from 01-01-2010

Other limiters: Only English, German and Dutch articles

Study design filter used

Yes. Systematische reviews and meta-analyses

Question specific search strategy

No

 

Searching other resources

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The review strategy

The information specialist will carry out the search strategy. The reviewer(s) will select the studies in two phases, based on the ‘Criteria for considering studies for the review’ above:

1. Based on title and abstract. When included or in doubt:

2. based on full text.

A second reviewer is available for cross-checking, help and advice.

 

If a recent, well performed systematic review appropriate to the review question is found, it will not be supplemented with studies published since the review.

 

Certainty of all outcomes will be assessed using GRADE. Results are summarised and described narratively.

Note.