Comparison of art preferences in patient rooms between chronic pain patients, palliative care patients and physicians.

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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-05 DOI:10.1007/s10354-025-01086-8

Alina Balandin, Martin Wallenfang, Kerstin Wagener, Martin Gleim, Dag Konetzka, Dieter Siebrecht, Anke Müffelmann, Susanne Kollmann, Regina Göckede, Christiane Zippel, Almut Linde, Annette Hüsch, Stine Louring Nielsen, Markus Steinfath, Axel Fudickar

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Abstract

Background: Art in patient rooms can have positive effects on wellbeing and clinical outcomes. Patients' art preferences may differ from the preferences of medical providers. In this study, chronic pain and palliative care patients' preferences regarding art in patient rooms were compared with physicians' preferences.

Methods: From a selection of abstract art photographs by artists of the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, and figurative paintings from the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 79 physicians and 79 chronic pain patients were asked to choose a picture. The physicians were also asked which picture they would choose for their patients. Furthermore, 79 palliative care patients were investigated to compare their choices with those of pain patients and physicians.

Results: Both patient groups preferred figurative art more often than did physicians for their patients. Among palliative care patients, 65% chose figurative art, while only 42% of physicians did (p < 0.0001). Similarly, 67% of chronic pain patients preferred figurative art, in contrast to 42% of physicians (p = 0.0002). The incidence of physicians' art choices for figurative art in patient rooms and for themselves as patients differed significantly (42 vs. 58, p = 0.013). Views with natural elements were preferred by physicians for patients and themselves (49 vs. 30 and 44 vs. 35), by palliative care patients (41 vs. 38), and by chronic pain patients (54 vs. 25).

Conclusion: Patients' art preferences differ significantly from physicians' art preferences.

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慢性疼痛患者、姑息治疗患者和内科医生在病房艺术偏好的比较。

背景：病房里的艺术品可以对健康和临床结果产生积极影响。患者的艺术偏好可能与医疗提供者的偏好不同。在这项研究中，慢性疼痛和姑息治疗患者对病房艺术的偏好与医生的偏好进行了比较。方法：从Kiel Muthesius美术与设计大学艺术家的抽象艺术照片和Kiel Kunsthalle zu Kiel的具象绘画中选择79名医生和79名慢性疼痛患者的图片。医生们还被问及他们会为他们的病人选择哪张照片。此外，我们还调查了79名姑息治疗患者，比较他们与疼痛患者和医生的选择。结果：两组患者都比医生更喜欢具象艺术。在姑息治疗患者中，65%的人选择具象艺术，而只有42%的医生选择具象艺术（p ）结论：患者的艺术偏好与医生的艺术偏好有显著差异。

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