The Impact of Arts-Based Interventions on Patient Hospital Experience

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bone Marrow; High Risk Pregnancy

Treatments: Other: Arts Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04024670

IRB-300001347

UL 1 TR003096 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

nuts and bolts

Full description

interventions and timing of interventions

Enrollment: 148 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion:

• Inpatient on either Bone Marrow Transplant ICU or High Risk Obstetrics Unit
• Estimated length of stay 2 or more weeks
• Age >18
• Patients who will potentially benefit from the AIM experience

Additional Inclusion Criteria:

• For the High Risk Obstetrics Unit group (hand-sewing), patients should be physically able to participate in hand-sewing activity.
• For the Bone Marrow Transplant IUC group (story-telling/poetry), patients should be physically able to participate in story-telling/poetry activity.

Exclusion:

• Patient too ill
• Complex medical condition that requires therapies which would not allow time for participation
• Declined to participate
• Age <18

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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148 participants in 4 patient groups

Patients on a high-risk obstetrics unit with an anticipated stay of two or more weeks

Active Comparator group

Description:

patients in this group will receive twice weekly sewing and embroidery interactions with a professional artist in residence.

Treatment:

Other: Arts Intervention

Patients on a bone marrow transplant unit with an anticipated stay of two or more weeks

Active Comparator group

Description:

patients in this group will receive twice weekly visits with a professional storyteller.

Treatment:

Other: Arts Intervention

HRO Standard of Care

No Intervention group

Description:

SOC

BMT Standard of Care

No Intervention group

Description:

SOC