Findings, methods and sources
Healthcare artObservational / experimentalReported benefit
Finding. Before-and-after observations reported reductions in several restless behaviours after still and video nature art were introduced.
Limitation. No concurrent control site. A combined visual intervention and observed behaviour, rather than a direct clinical outcome.
Methods and verification
Verification level: Abstract checked
Structured summary
- Population
- Patients and visitors in emergency department waiting rooms at two hospitals
- Sample
- Thirty hours of observation before and after installation at each site
- Intervention
- Still and video art depicting nature
- Comparator
- Same waiting rooms before installation
- Outcome measures
- Systematic behavioural observation: restlessness, noise, staring, front-desk queries, social interaction
- Timing
- Four months
- Result
- Significant reductions in restlessness, noise and staring at both sites; fewer front-desk queries and more social interaction at one site
- Uncertainty
- Pre–post design without a concurrent control site
- Design
- Pre–post systematic behavioural observation at two hospitals
- Sample / scope
- Thirty hours of observation before and after installation at each site
- Setting
- Emergency department waiting room
- Art form
- Pictures
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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