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Handcrafting Joy to Support Both the Patient and Clinician Experience.

J Patient Exp

December 2024

Department of Neurology, Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

A patient's hospital stay is too often wrapped in fear and worry. Healthcare leaders have emphasized the immense need to improve patient experience and address patients' individual needs. In addition to helping with the medical aspect of healing, we believe health systems can encourage and empower providers to perform acts of kindness to help elevate the otherwise stressful experience of being hospitalized.

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  • - Objective was to assess the acceptability and feasibility of a theatre-based wellness program for individuals with long COVID, focusing on their overall health and well-being.
  • - The program lasted six weeks, involving creative activities like movement and storytelling, delivered both online and in-person, and targeted adults facing symptoms like breathlessness and loneliness.
  • - Results showed good participation rates, with significant improvements in self-rated health and chronic fatigue, highlighting benefits such as enhanced community connection and personal confidence, though there were noted barriers to full participation.
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Primary care is foundational to health systems and a common good. The workforce is threatened by outdated approaches to organizing work, payment, and technology. Primary care work should be restructured to support a team-based model, optimized to efficiently achieve the best population health outcomes.

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Transition to university is associated with reduced engagement in physical activity (PA), with students' PA influenced by many individual and contextual factors. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic is one such factor. COVID-19 has disrupted our relationships with our bodies and with others, our sense of time, and the spaces in which we live and work, resulting in reductions in PA.

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Youth beset by community violence, racism, and deep poverty experience profound suffering, and it is important to learn about their strengths to support them. To that end, we asked African American youths in Chicago what made social services provided to them by the Empowering Counseling Program meaningful to them. Their responses focused on the giving and receiving of compassion.

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