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Patient perceptions of a 1‐h art‐making experience during blood and marrow transplant treatment
Author(s) -
Mische Lawson L.,
Cline J.,
French A.,
Ismael N.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1111/ecc.12482
Subject(s) - medicine , feeling , bone marrow transplant , perception , cancer treatment , blood cancer , bone marrow transplantation , cancer , bone marrow , psychology , social psychology , neuroscience , biology
Patients with various forms of cancer receiving blood and marrow transplant (BMT) treatment at an outpatient clinic develop chemotherapy‐related symptoms and an increased desire to use complementary and alternative medicine in order to address these symptoms. Art‐making offers an inexpensive way to pass time and relieve symptoms during long hours in treatment. Twenty‐one BMT patients painted a tile and participated in research. Researchers used semi‐structured interviews to understand patients' experiences with art‐making. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and coded independently by researchers who met to agree on themes. Ten themes emerged from the data including, meaningful activity (32.2%), expression (18.7%), passing time (13.2%), BMT process (12.1%), social outlet (8.1%), therapy‐related symptoms (7.3%), negative aspects of painting (5.9%) and encouragement to paint (2.6%). The results of this study revealed that art‐making experience can provide patients a meaningful activity during treatment and an outlet to express their feelings.