Music Is Served: How Acoustic Interventions in Hospital Dining Environments Can Improve Patient Mealtime Wellbeing.

Eating-related challenges and discomforts arising from moderately acquired brain injuries (ABI)-including physiological and cognitive difficulties-can interfere with patients' eating experience and impede the recovery process. At the same time, external environmental factors have been proven to be influential in our mealtime experience. This experimental pilot study investigates whether redesigning the sonic environment in hospital dining areas can positively influence ABI patients' ( = 17) nutritional state and mealtime experience.