RESEARCH
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
RxART RESEARCH
We prioritize project evaluations to better understand how we can optimize RxART’s impact on patients and staff and best contribute to the growing field of arts and health.
How Does Art Impact the Human Experience of the Pediatric Emergency Department?
As a part of the Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Grant Program, RxART collaborated with NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem on a research study that sought to provide insights about the experiences of patients, families, and staff in the Pediatric Emergency Department, where RxART installed two site-specific projects.
Impact of Art on the Human Experience in the Pediatric Emergency Department
Overall, our qualitative and
quantitative results demonstrated the added visual art positively impacting both the patient and employee experience, and thus overall, the human experience.
As we elevate the human experience in healthcare, it is important to consider arts as a medium to humanize the healthcare environment.
- Impact of Art on the Human Experience
Can a visual art installation in the outpatient clinical setting helps ease fear and anxiety in patients with neurologic and neurodevelopmental conditions?
Visual Art Intervention in the Pediatric Neurology & Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Outpatient Setting
RxART worked with Dr. Abigail Ley of the Children’s National Health System, who observed a focus group of patients before and after a site-specific installation by artist Alexis Rockman was completed at the Montgomery County Outpatient Center in Rockville, MD. The study examined the impact of the artwork on the children’s behavior by monitoring markers of stress and anxiety, including blood pressure levels and heart rates.
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OTHER RESEARCH
NeuroArts Blueprint
Scientific studies over the last 20 years are confirming what artists have always known intuitively: the arts can help in preventing, managing, and recovering from physical and mental health challenges; building more equitable communities; and fostering wellbeing through multiple biological systems.
Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing
The act of creation, and our appreciation of it, provides an individual experience that can have positive effects on our physical and mental health and wellbeing. How, where and why this works is the subject of this report.
Read the full report here
Read the full report here
Creative Minds in Medicine
While Cleveland is known for the strength of its arts and culture and health and human services sectors, the intersections of those sectors are still being explored and developed. This white paper examines the concept of such intersections first with a brief historical perspective on the development of the field.
Arts in Health: A Review of the Medical Literature
This review of medical literature published between 1990 and 2004 explores the relationship of the arts and humanities to healthcare, and the influence and effects of the arts on health. The aim of the study is to strengthen existing anecdotal and qualitative information demonstrating the impact that the arts can have on health.