Findings, methods and sources
Healthcare artRandomised trialReported benefit
Finding. A study of 90 paediatric patients compared aquatic murals, tree murals and rooms without murals, reporting differences in physiological measures.
Limitation. Small, single-site study. Its results do not establish that every mural or subject will reduce heart rate or blood pressure.
Methods and verification
Verification level: Abstract checked
Structured summary
- Population
- Paediatric inpatients
- Sample
- 90 patients
- Intervention
- Aquatic or tree-themed window mural in the room
- Comparator
- Room without a mural
- Outcome measures
- Heart rate and blood pressure from medical data
- Timing
- During the stay, from admission
- Result
- Improvements in heart rate and systolic blood pressure in mural rooms compared with control rooms; tree murals associated with the most outcomes
- Uncertainty
- Effect sizes not given in the abstract; single site
- Design
- Patients randomly assigned to one of three room conditions; physiological measurement
- Sample / scope
- 90 paediatric patients; see paper for allocation and analysed sample
- Setting
- Paediatric inpatient
- Art form
- Murals
Citation and abstract checked against PubMed, 29 September 2026
Last full editorial audit: 2026-09-09 · Verification policy
Publications and overlap
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