Increased immunity for those battling terminal diseases.
Creative writing offers physical benefits to those battling terminal diseases. HIV positive patients show a strengthened immune level after just 30 minutes of writing. Similar results were found with asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and Hepatitis B patients.
45% average increase in reported health.
Students participating in the Kaiser Permanente Educational Theater Program show a correct answer increase of, on average, 45% in health-related questions.
$56 billion in potential savings from shorter stays.
Patients who see nature or art from their hospital beds recuperate almost 1 day faster and require fewer pain medications. A single hospital day averages $2,300, and about 25 million people per year stay over at least one night in the hospital, which adds up to a potential of $56 billion in savings per year.
24% say the arts improve clinical outcomes, 43% that they have a positive effect.
Forty-three percent of frontline clinical staff believe that the arts have a positive effect on healing and 24% say the arts improve clinical outcomes.
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