Cancer Patients Benefit From Art Sessions
Medical News Today
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A study published today in the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) after spending an hour working on art projects of their choice.
Fifty patients from the inpatient oncology unit at Northwestern Memorial were enrolled in the study over a four-month period.
The ESAS is a numeric scale allowing patients to assess their symptoms of pain, tiredness, nausea, depression, anxiety, drowsiness, lack of appetite, well-being and shortness of breath. Eight of these nine symptoms improved; nausea was the only symptom that did not change as a result of the art therapy session.
Jan 01, 2006
Medical News Today
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A study published today in the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) after spending an hour working on art projects of their choice.
Fifty patients from the inpatient oncology unit at Northwestern Memorial were enrolled in the study over a four-month period.
The ESAS is a numeric scale allowing patients to assess their symptoms of pain, tiredness, nausea, depression, anxiety, drowsiness, lack of appetite, well-being and shortness of breath. Eight of these nine symptoms improved; nausea was the only symptom that did not change as a result of the art therapy session.
Jan 01, 2006
