A study about effects of art therapy for cancer patients and development of a program

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530901
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: St. Mary's College
• Principal Investigator: Ando Michiyo 聖マリア学院大学, 看護学部, 教授 (10284457)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ITO Sayoko 京都西山短期大学, 仏教学科, 准教授 (50446209)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: アートセラピー / マインドフルネス / がん患者 / 気分 / 自律神経

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted a study about effects of art therapy on psychological aspects of cancer patients and developed a program of mindfulenss art therapy. We obtained the folloing resutls. 1)Art Therapy affects on "depresseion" and "fatigue" of cancer patients, 2)Mindfulness Art Therapy is much more effective on mood of college students than only Art Therapy, 3) Midfunless Art therapy affects on "tension-anxiety," "depression," "fatigue" of cancer patients with small effect size, and "vigor" and "fatigue" with middle effect size, 4) Mindfulness Art Therapy may activate vigor for college students and cancer patietns with low mental helath risk much more than those with high mental risk using autonomic nervous system as an indictor.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学