Effect of creative writing on mood in patients with cancer

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junjia Zhu ◽  
Muhammad Hussain ◽  
Aditya Joshi ◽  
Cristina I Truica ◽  
Darya Nesterova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Before And After ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Over Time

ObjectiveTo determine the feasibility of conducting creative writing workshops (CWW) for patients with cancer to promote improvement in mood.MethodWe piloted a prospective study to determine the feasibility of conducting CWW over a 4-week period. Patients were randomised 2:1 to either an intervention arm (IA) or to standard of care (SOC). Patients in the IA attended four 2-hour long weekly CWW × 4 weeks, whereas those receiving SOC did not participate in the CWW. We used a validated emotion thermometer scale (ETS) to assess changes in patient’s mental health before and after intervention. Patients with metastatic or unresectable cancer were included.Primary endpoint(1) Feasibility and (2) mood scores before and after CWW using ETS.ResultsA total of 16 patients were enrolled: 11 in the IA vs 5 in SOC. Seven out of 11 (63%) patients enrolled in the IA attended at least 75% of classes. Patients in the IA showed a trend towards mood improvement relative to the SOC when comparing initial and final ETS scores. Within the IA group significantly lower postclass total ETS scores were observed relative to preclass ETS scores. Also, a significant decreasing trend over time was observed in the preclass total ETS scores for participants in the IA group.ConclusionsIt is feasible for patients with cancer to attend CWW. Our results also show a positive effect on mood in the CWW arm. Further prospective clinical studies are needed to evaluate the effect of this intervention in patients with cancer.

scholarly journals REALIDADE E FICÇÃO, TRAUMA E AFETO: A AUTOPOIESIS NAS OFICINAS DE ESCRITA CRIATIVA * REALITY AND FICTION, TRAUMA AND AFFECTION. AUTOPOIESIS IN THE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Geruza Zelnys de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
The Body ◽  
Process Writing ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

Resumo: O texto discute a relação entre realidade e ficção, bem como o trânsito entre uma e outra, a partir do trauma como elemento desestabilizador no discurso literário. Essa reflexão toma como base a instância autoral em processo de criação – escritura e leitura – nas oficinas de escrita criativa, analisando como a irrupção dos estilhaços de trauma convocam o corpo a ser com o corpus em performance coreográfica, o que hiperexcita os corpos tornando-os espaços de agenciamento. Nos momentos de escuta e partilha, favorecidos pela mediação atenta ao arquivo insubmisso do real, pode se observar o processo autopoiético sobre o qual se estruturam as múltiplas aprendizagens – especialmente de si – deflagrando as potencialidades provocativas, educativas e terapêuticas das oficinas, que as tornam suportes indispensáveis à educação não-formal.Palavras-Chave: ficção, trauma, afeto, autopoiesis, oficinas de escrita criativa Abstract: The paper discusses the relationship between reality and fiction, as well as the intersections between one and another, from trauma as a destabilizing element in literary discourse. This reflection is based on authorial instance in its creation process - writing and reading - in the workshops of creative writing. The paper mains analyze how the irruption of trauma convoke the body to be with the corpus in choreographic performance, which hiper excite the bodies turning it in assemblage space. In moments of listening and sharing, favored by mediation attentive to the real's unsubmissive file, it is possible to see the autopoietic process on which the multiple learning are structured, triggering the provocative, educational and therapeutic potential of workshops, which make it necessary supports for the non-formal education.Keywords: fiction, trauma, affection, autopoiesis, creative writing workshops

scholarly journals INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF SPORTS DANCE BASED ON WIRELESS NETWORK MODE ON COLLEGE STUDENTS’ MENTAL HEALTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (spe2) ◽  
pp. 70-72
Author(s):  
Jia Qi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Wireless Network ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Health Quality ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Positive Effect

ABSTRACT Sports dance can not only improve the quality of students, but also affect the healthy psychology of college students. The influence of sports dance on the mental health of college students based on the wireless network mode is investigated and analyzed. The influence of sports dance on students’ mental health quality was studied by comparing before and after the experiment. First, based on the characteristics of the wireless network mode, the MQVA algorithm based on the wireless network mode is proposed. Finally, students of two classes are taken as research subjects, and the related indexes of their psychological quality are measured by the algorithm. The survey results show that the overall level of mental health of the subjects is significantly higher than that of ordinary college students and ordinary people. Sports dance has a positive effect on the mental health of college students.

scholarly journals (In)dependent meaning: Representations of addiction and recovery in selected poems produced in a rehabilitation centre

Literator ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette Pretorius ◽  
Andy Carolin ◽  
Reinhardt Fourie ◽  
Lida Krüger
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Drug Rehabilitation ◽  
Clinical Context ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Societal Expectations ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

In this article we provide a close reading of selected poems written during creative writing workshops at a drug rehabilitation centre. We argue that these poems expose some of the uncertainties and complexities that characterise the representation of identity in experiences of addiction and recovery. We show that the speakers in these poems attempt to imagine and represent their experiences in language through a number of structuring binaries. These binaries include those between the speaker’s experiences of active addiction and recovery, and the speaker’s personal experience versus societal expectations and perceptions. Our reading of these poems is informed by the clinical context in which they were written, and our analysis reflects the bifurcation that governs this liminal space. Individual agency in these different spheres is approached in a very tentative way, and the speakers in these poems are shown to have trouble envisioning the future at the same time as their pasts appear unsettled. We argue finally that while current discourses and vocabularies surrounding addiction seem incomplete and inadequate for the expression of some complex experiences, poetry provides a platform that accommodates ambivalence and a multiplicity of meanings.

scholarly journals ‘The story of the reel that went for a swim’: Cinema Memory and the History of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild as Narrated through Oral History Interviews and surrounding Metadata

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Sarah Neely
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops ◽  
Surprising Discovery ◽  
The Way

This article draws from existing work relating to the creative writing strand of the Major Minor Cinema project, which was inspired by the surprising discovery of project's pilot study that some cinema-goers from the period of research had been inspired to write poems or stories in response to their experience of going to the Film Guild screenings. Building on an earlier publication in the journal Participations (May 2019), which largely focused on the project's use of creative methodologies and creative writing workshops as a way of exploring cinema memory, this article will consider the way which cinema memory was narrativised in project's oral history interviews and their surrounding metadata, focusing in particular on the specificities of cinema-going in rural Scotland, and taking into consideration the significance of Scotland's oral history and storytelling traditions in relation to the arrival of cinema to the Highlands and Islands.

scholarly journals Results of endovascular correction of atrial septal defect and early heart remodeling in children of preschool and school age

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
R. S. Tarasov ◽  
P. A. Shushpannikov ◽  
V. I. Ganyukov ◽  
I. N. Sizova
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Septal Defect ◽  
Septal Defect ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
School Age ◽  
Longitudinal Size ◽  
Before And After ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Positive Effect

Aim. To analyze the results and features of early cardiac remodeling (CR) in children of preschool and school age after endovascular correction of atrial septal defect (ASD).Material and methods. A prospective study included 27 children with secondary ASD who underwent endovascular correction for one year (from the beginning of 2017 to the beginning of 2018). The patients were divided into two groups. The first (n=12) — children of preschool age (<8 years old), mean age 4,5 [3;6], and the second (n=15) — school age (8­18 years old), mean age 12 [9;14]. The following indicants were assessed during hospitalization: the success of the intervention, hospital complications, functional data characterizing CR according to echocardiography before and after the correction of the defect.Results. It was shown that all children successfully completed endovascular closure of ASD. Complications were not identified. We find several statistically significant changes in echocardiogram data before and after the intervention. In the preschool age group, the size of the right ventricle (RV) decreased from 1,66 to 1,45 cm (p=0,028), the right atrium (RA) decreased from 3,58 to 3,1 cm (p=0,003), and the longitudinal size of RV decreased from 3 to 2 cm (p=0,032) and basal size of RV — from 5,98 to 4,4 cm (p=0,005), the volume of RA decreased from 25,7 to 20,7 ml (p=0,005). In the group of school age, the size of the RV changed from 2,08 to 1,8 cm (p=0,038), the size of the RA — from 3,72 to 2,71 cm (p=0,007), the RV area in diastole — from 12,4 to 10,6 mm2. The gradient has changed from 2 to 1,54 mm Hg (p=0,043), the frontal size of the tricuspid valve (TV) decreased from 2,7 to 2,48 cm (p=0,010). The basal size of RV decreased from 3 to 2,6 cm (p=0,015), the median size — from 2,73 to 2,37 cm (p=0,017) and the longitudinal size — from 5,97 to 5,45 cm (p=0,007). No significant differences in CR among the groups were found.Conclusion. We made conclusion about the efficacy and safety of endovascular correction of ASD, which has a positive effect on early HR in children, both in early and in old age.

scholarly journals Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Services at US Cancer Centers

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 829-838
Author(s):  
Shehzad K. Niazi ◽  
Aaron Spaulding ◽  
Emily Brennan ◽  
Sarah K. Meier ◽  
Julia E. Crook ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Chemical Dependency ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Psychosocial Needs ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
American Hospital ◽  
American Hospital Association ◽  
Cancer Centers ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Patients With Cancer

Background: It is standard of care and an accreditation requirement to screen for and address distress and psychosocial needs in patients with cancer. This study assessed the availability of mental health (MH) and chemical dependency (CD) services at US cancer centers. Methods: The 2017–2018 American Hospital Association (AHA) survey, Area Health Resource File, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Compare databases were used to assess availability of services and associations with hospital-level and health services area (HSA)–level characteristics. Results: Of 1,144 cancer centers surveyed, 85.4% offered MH services and 45.5% offered CD services; only 44.1% provided both. Factors associated with increased adjusted odds of offering MH services were teaching status (odds ratio [OR], 1.76; 95% CI, 1.18–2.62), being a member of a hospital system (OR, 2.00; 95% CI, 1.31–3.07), and having more beds (OR, 1.04 per 10-bed increase; 95% CI, 1.02–1.05). Higher population estimate (OR, 0.98; 95% CI, 0.97–0.99), higher percentage uninsured (OR, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.86–0.95), and higher Mental Health Professional Shortage Area level in the HSA (OR, 0.99; 95% CI, 0.98–1.00) were associated with decreased odds of offering MH services. Government-run (OR, 2.85; 95% CI, 1.30–6.22) and nonprofit centers (OR, 3.48; 95% CI, 1.78–6.79) showed increased odds of offering CD services compared with for-profit centers. Those that were members of hospital systems (OR, 1.61; 95% CI, 1.14–2.29) and had more beds (OR, 1.02; 95% CI, 1.01–1.03) also showed increased odds of offering these services. A higher percentage of uninsured patients in the HSA (OR, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.88–0.97) was associated with decreased odds of offering CD services. Conclusions: Patients’ ability to pay, membership in a hospital system, and organization size may be drivers of decisions to co-locate services within cancer centers. Larger organizations may be better able to financially support offering these services despite poor reimbursement rates. Innovations in specialty payment models highlight opportunities to drive transformation in delivering MH and CD services for high-need patients with cancer.

Silences and silence in 'creativity'

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
Independent Thinking

This reflective piece – written primarily to provoke discussion – raises some questions about and for the recent 'creativity agenda' in educational policy in England, suggesting that something fundamental is missing. The author argues that 'creativity' has characteristically been defined in recent policy discourse as a set of skills concerned with developing independent thinking, problem-solving and flexible working. 'Creativity' thus turns out to be intimately and explicitly allied to 'employability'. The author believes that creativity, on the contrary, is stimulated by the encouragement of vivid inner lifeworlds, a sense of imaginative interiority and a sensuously-felt subjectivity – as exemplified in S.T. Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan. She argues that these are part of pedagogic responsibility as well as a sine qua non for the work of the imagination. The author is writing in her role as poet (who also leads creative writing workshops, including for teachers), rather than as a researcher.

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