Study	Reason for exclusion
Camic 2014	Study did not compare art therapy with standard care or other psychosocial interventions for dementia
Fostinelli 2016	Not a fully‐published randomised controlled trial (conference poster abstract)
Han 2010	Intervention was not art therapy ‐ a music therapy and activity programme was used
Jensen 1997	Intervention was not restricted to art therapy ‐ a multisensory intervention combining art, music and movement was used
Kong 2015	Unable to confirm as a randomised controlled trial based on information available (abstract only)
MacPherson 2009	Intervention was not art therapy ‐ did not involve art‐making
NHS 2012	Intervention was not art therapy
Odell‐Miller 2006	Intervention was not restricted to art therapy ‐ treatment was 1 of 4 arts therapies (music, art, drama, or dance‐movement)
Rusted 2002	Not a fully‐published randomised controlled trial (conference abstract)
Rylatt 2012	Not a randomised controlled trial
Safar 2011	Not a randomised controlled trial
Seifert 2003	Not a randomised controlled trial
Stallings 2010	Not a randomised controlled trial
Ullan 2013	Not a randomised controlled trial
Walsh 2011	Not a randomised controlled trial