Creative arts interventions to enhance adolescent well-being in low-income communities: an integrative literature review

Abstract

Background: Globally many young people, especially from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, face significant barriers to achieving optimal life chances. Creative arts interventions are a way of reaching out to adolescents in low-income communities, to encourage positive functioning and enhanced well-being. We need information on the efficacy – or otherwise – of such interventions to optimise future efforts.