title: Online exclusive: art intervention with family caregivers and patients with cancer.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the implementation and preliminary evaluation of an art intervention at the bedsides of patients with cancer and their family caregivers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Field notes from ongoing encounters with family caregivers and patients with cancer, research literature, and descriptions of other programs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  An "Art Infusion" intervention was developed and offered to family caregivers and patients with cancer during treatment at a comprehensive cancer center. Training of interventionists, timing and delivery of the intervention, and the availability of art activity choices were key factors in the intervention's success.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Family caregivers and patients with cancer are interested in and responsive to art interventions. Additional research is needed to quantify the effects.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Art interventions enhanced and extended the scope of care for family caregivers and patients with cancer. Nurses are in key positions to establish, supervise, and promote such interventions.
authors: Barry University, Miami, FL, USA. swalsh@mail.barry.edu
authors: Sandra M
authors: SM
authors: Walsh
authors: Sharlene
authors: S
authors: Weiss
mesh_terms: D001155:Art Therapy; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life