Details of 54 arts and health studies using qualitative methodology
| Number of studies | |
| Art form | |
| Visual Art | 22 |
| Music | 9 |
| Combination of art forms | 11 |
| Drama | 5 |
| Environmental aesthetics | 3 |
| Creative writing | 1 |
| Sculpture | 1 |
| Digital art | 2 |
| Total | 54 |
| Type of study | |
| Arts and health studies | 31 |
| Arts therapies | 13 |
| Theatre based | 6 |
| Environmental aesthetics | 3 |
| Combined arts and health and arts therapies | 1 |
| Total | 54 |
| Methodology | |
| Grounded Theory | 11 |
| Phenomenology | 9 |
| Thematic analysis or content analysis (various approaches) | 21 |
| No details of methodology | 4 |
| Arts based action research | 5 |
| Ethnography | 3 |
| Narrative | 1 |
| Total | 54 |