Does therapeutic writing help people with long-term conditions? Systematic review, realist synthesis and economic considerations

Health Technology Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2016, Pages 1-367

  Nyssen, Olga P ^a   Taylor, Stephanie J C ^b   Wong, Geoff ^c   Steed, Elizabeth ^b   Bourke, Liam ^d   Lord, Joanne ^e   Ross, Carol A ^f   Hayman, Sheila ^g   Field, Victoria ^h   Higgins, Ailish ⁱ   Greenhalgh, Trisha ^c   Meads, Catherine ^j  

^a Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas   (Spain)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f Lillyhall Business Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture   (United Kingdom)

^h International Federation for Biblio Poetry Therapy   (United States)

ⁱ BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIBLIOTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FACE PAIN; FACILITATED THERAPEUTIC WRITING; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; FIBROMYALGIA; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IRRITABLE COLON; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSORIASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENSION HEADACHE; THERAPEUTIC WRITING; UNFACILITATED EMOTIONAL WRITING; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; WRITING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; WRITING;

EID: 84964043488     PISSN: 13665278     EISSN: 20464924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3310/hta20270     Document Type: Article

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