The Impact of Arts-Based Interventions on Patient Hospital Experience

Inclusion 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
• •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