Findings, methods and sources
Healthcare artObservational / experimentalReported benefit
Finding. A collection-level survey examined patient-reported mood, stress, comfort and perceptions of care.
Limitation. A self-selected institutional survey with no control condition; do not treat invitation counts as respondent counts or apply results to one sculpture.
Methods and verification
Verification level: Abstract checked
Structured summary
- Population
- Members of an online patient panel who had visited Cleveland Clinic’s main campus in the previous 12 months
- Sample
- Survey sent to 4,376 panel members; respondent number not given in the abstract
- Exposure
- The hospital’s contemporary art collection
- Comparator
- None
- Outcome measures
- Self-reported mood, stress, comfort, satisfaction and impression of the hospital
- Timing
- Single survey
- Result
- A majority of respondents noticed the art and reported improved mood and stress and a positive effect on satisfaction
- Uncertainty
- Self-selected respondents; no control condition
- Design
- Survey study within an institutional art collection
- Sample / scope
- See source for sample and design
- Setting
- Inpatient and public areas
- Art form
- Art collections
Citation and abstract checked against PubMed, 29 September 2026
Last full editorial audit: 2026-09-09 · Verification policy
Publications and overlap
Both records cite the same 2014 paper. PAH-024 also mentions a 2021 paper; PAH-033 also discusses a 2024 institutional survey. Those additional sources are not treated as the same study. Participant overlap has not been established.
Linked records: PAH-033 · Publication