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| Author | Awtuch A., Gȩbczyńska-Janowicz A. | |
| Title | Art and Healthcare - Healing Potential of Artistic Interventions in Medical Settings | |
| Reference | Awtuch A., Gȩbczyńska-Janowicz A.; Art and Healthcare - Healing Potential of Artistic Interventions in Medical Settings ;IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering vol:245 issue: 4 page: |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85033710304&doi=10.1088%2f1757-899X%2f245%2f4%2f042037&partnerID=40&md5=a4c5f7baf1ff6e5b19833f857374720c |
| Abstract | The stereotype of a machine for healing seems to be well rooted in common thinking and social perception of hospital buildings. The technological aspect of healthcare architecture has been influenced for several years by three major factors. The first is linked to the necessity of providing safety and security in the environment of elevated epidemiological risk. The second concerns the need for incorporating advanced technology required for medical equipment and building infrastructure. Finally, the third relates to Cartesian dualism in medical sciences. Fortunately, healthcare architecture of 21st-century is in the process of dynamic transformations resulting from the change in approach to patients. The holistic perspective gradually enters into medical sciences, and as a result a patient is perceived as a human being whose needs are discussed on three equally important dimensions: biological, social and psychological. The new trend has influenced the design process of contemporary hospitals. One can observe a turn from the primacy of medical technology over environmental conditions towards the balance between medical requirements and psychological and social needs of hospital users. The research on the impact of hospital environment on therapeutic process gave rise to a new trend of incorporating arts into the space and form of medical facilities. Both architecture and interior design details are more carefully negotiated in terms of aesthetics. Designers expand the possibilities of exhibiting visual art in functional and spatial arrangement. The initiatives introducing artistic objects, installations and activities into medical spaces aim at increasing the efficiency of medical services, transforming the image of sterile hospital architecture and introducing high quality public space. These interventions generate the impact both on micro and macro scales and they concern several fields of activity and forms of art. The paper presents the scope of possibilities for introducing art into contemporary medical spaces and discusses the influence of selected solutions incorporating artistic interventions on healthcare users. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. |
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| Such environments intend to promote a sense of well-being, a reduction in stress and fatigue, and encourage a sense of hope and positive attitude in patients. . | Any positive distraction can elicit positive feelings, hold attention and interest and, therefore, reduce stressful thoughts. . | The distraction therapy with nature sights and sounds significantly reduces pain in patients undergoing medical procedures. . | The examination of healing capacity of non-medical elements and activities brought into attention the therapeutic aspects of artistic interventions in healthcare. . | There is a substantial evidence that art depicting nature reduces stress levels and anxiety impacting waiting experience. . | Studies show that the attractiveness of physical environment in waiting areas - enhanced by art - is significantly associated with higher perceived quality of care, less anxiety, and higher reported positive interactions with staff. . | The possibility of choosing a piece of art helps patients to regain a sense of control, essential for enhancing the process of healing. . | The supportive healthcare environment via art and its aesthetic component helps to improve patients mood and evokes good memories, allowing to shift patients attention away from their illness 17 . . | Several studies on the impact of colour on different factors associated with well-being indicate a shared conclusion that colour impacts healthcare outcomes by reducing stress and enhancing the sense of well-being, improving patients sleep and reducing length of stay, helping to overcome users spatial disorientation and diminish medical errors. . | Any creative activity may improve their mood: it allows patients to define their feelings helping hospital staff to gain a better insight into patients needs. . | Currently art therapy practice aims at creating space for various forms of expression in specially prepared rooms allowing for positive distraction, expression of emotions and treatment experience, education by art and psychotherapy by art. . | It is expressed in the concepts of healthy environment promoting active life and healing environment defined as a treatment setting that sustains the healing process by creating a supportive physical and social environment. . | As a result of studies analysing how people manage to cope with stress without compromising their psychosocial functioning and their health, the attention has been drawn to the broadly understood human and environmental resources that make it possible for people to cope with dangers. . | Scientific research confirms that art therapy is helpful in healing process: it improves cognitive and physical functioning of patients with dementia, fosters recovery of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. . | Designers expand the possibilities of exhibiting visual art in functional and spatial arrangement. . | The study revealed that the introduction of distraction conditions was associated with more calm behaviour and less movement, suggesting that significant calming effects are associated with the positive distraction conditions. . |
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