Art Making as Health Intervention

The current ANS featured article is titled “Art Making as a Health Intervention: Concept Analysis and Implications for Nursing Interventions” by Kyung Soo Kim, PhD, RN and Maichou Lor, PhD, RN. You can download this article at no cost while it is featured! Here is a message sent by D. Kim about this work:

Hello, my name is Kyung Soo Kim, a junior nurse researcher at the University of Iowa, College of Nursing. My program of research focuses on chronic pain in older persons and chronic pain management using art making intervention. I am currently designing an art making intervention using visual art making activities for older persons with chronic pain. If you want to know more about and/or you are interested in my research, please contact me (kyungsoo-kim@uiowa.edu)! I am delighted to introduce my recent article entitled, “Art Making as a Health Intervention: Concept Analysis and Implications for Nursing Interventions”.

Art making has been adopted across multiple disciplines as a health intervention. However, our understanding of art making as a health intervention and how it differs from art therapy is limited. Therefore, we conducted a concept analysis to better understand art making as a health intervention guided by Walker and Avant’s approach. In this article, we reviewed 85 studies and found four defining attributes, four antecedents, and physical and psychological consequences. In addition to these findings, we provided several nursing research and practical implications for nurse researchers and clinicians to aid in designing and implementing art making as a health intervention.