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Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

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Re: Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

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Post by jdietrich »

tokai wrote: post #40
gwillen wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed not, and I am EXTREMELY skeptical of the claim that birth times are reduced TWO HOURS (!!!) by the addition of art. That's the kind of effect you see in papers that get retracted for outright fraud, let alone dubious and irreproducible studies.

I think this is the paper on the birth time. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003039921...

Unblinded (somewhat unavoidable), informal randomisation, n=26, the sole author is an interior designer with no scientific training. Paper states an "average" difference in birth times of 2.1 hours (not clear if mean or median), no SDs or p-value stated. Published in Optics & Laser Technology for some reason; the editorial board appears to be entirely comprised of engineers.

Re: Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

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Post by kwhitefoot »

How is this news? Every hospital I have been in recently has art on the walls, some lots, some not so much but it's there.

Even the dismally badly designed, and laughably misnamed, Great Western Hospital in Swindon has pictures on the walls, unfortunately few of them are where the patients spend the most time.

Re: Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

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Post by ceejayoz »

arkades wrote: post #21
TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most patients can't afford the organised health insurance scam industry. That's where most of the money goes. Ending that scam and asking patients to add an extra percent or two on their bills to pay for good food and a good environment would barely be a rounding error compared to the banditry that forces them to pay outrageous and unjustifiable fees for common meds and routine medical services - never mind specialis…

Most health insurance has a profit margin in the vicinity of 10%. They introduce many problems into the healthcare market, but if you think they’re the reason people can’t afford healthcare, you are mistaken. I don’t mean to sound snarky here, but: if you believe you can boil down one of the most fractured, complex, and heavily regulated industries (really, set of inter-related industries) in the country to a single…

> Most health insurance has a profit margin in the vicinity of 10%.

Well, that's partially because they're legally required to spend 80% of premiums on patient care.

The end result is that higher premiums mean higher profits out of that fixed percentage of margin they're permitted to skim, so they don't fight cost increases too much - until people outright stop being able to afford the premiums, increases in them benefit the insurer's bottom line.

Re: Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

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Post by greenshackle2 »

tokai wrote: post #40
gwillen wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed not, and I am EXTREMELY skeptical of the claim that birth times are reduced TWO HOURS (!!!) by the addition of art. That's the kind of effect you see in papers that get retracted for outright fraud, let alone dubious and irreproducible studies.

I think this is the paper on the birth time. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003039921...

"A screen was designed to hide emergency equipment with the joint aim of reducing women's anxieties and (through visual art) acting as a focal point of attention and distraction during labour, thus diminishing requirements for analgesia. Results demonstrated, in the presence of the screen, a statistically significant shortening of the duration of labour by 2.1h"

Uh, I don't have access to the full article, but was the control hiding the equipment with a blank screen or no screen at all?

Cause if the control was no screen at all, I don't think they were testing what they say they were testing:

"The significant clinical outcomes of this research provide the evidence of the value of integrating visual art into the environment of a labour and delivery room, improving the quality of the maternity service and potentially delivering real cost savings benefits to Hospitals."

Re: Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

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Post by artur_makly »

volkk wrote: post #50
artur_makly wrote: post #36

We've realized that years ago..that's why we launched: https://POPteam.io There is no better feeling than seeing all those boring spiritually sterile hallways magically transform into a kaleidoscope of humanity.

are you specifically targeting hospitals and working with them? or is this just a plug for some random startup that does art for other startups

Random we are not. we've given this a ton of thought when we pivoted from our mass-customization marketplace: https://JuicyCanvas.com

Our clients include the full spectrum of businesses and consumers ( Uber, Burning Man, Private Schools, Medical Clinics, and Families )

Re: Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

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Post by warent »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #42

They should probably qualify what kind of art seems to reduce anxiety. I could line a patient waiting room with H.R. Giger paintings, but that might not achieve the same result: https://slowsoulburn.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hr_giger_du... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lwoGruDK7ww/TWaPQYPMQ9I/AAAAAAAAAc... https://slowsoulburn.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hr-giger_00... https://pickadolla.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/elp…

I would be interested to know if this artwork actually would actually have the same result for certain people, i.e. goths, punks, or other alternative artists.

Re: Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

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Post by volkk »

artur_makly wrote: post #56
volkk wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you specifically targeting hospitals and working with them? or is this just a plug for some random startup that does art for other startups

Random we are not. we've given this a ton of thought when we pivoted from our mass-customization marketplace: https://JuicyCanvas.com Our clients include the full spectrum of businesses and consumers ( Uber, Burning Man, Private Schools, Medical Clinics, and Families )

cool! thanks for the response

Re: Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

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Post by dheera »

Pragmatic question: What channels do artists have today to sell art to hospitals?

The average price of paintings or photograph prints are a tiny fraction of what they spend on medical equipment, and if it reduces patient stress, it sounds like an incredibly big win-win.

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