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Background: Numerous studies have shown that there is sufficient evidence that art activities have health-promoting effects in a clinical setting. However, the effect of art workshops offering clay-work in children's clinics outside a therapy setting has largely not been explored. This study aims to contribute to close this research gap.

Methods: Using the grounded theory methodology, an artistic clay-work project was evaluated in various wards in children's hospitals in Germany based on semi-structured interviews, participant observation and document analysis.

Results: Art activities with natural clay outside a therapy setting promote the well-being of children and their relatives in many ways during a stay in the hospital. They provide relief as well as activation and strengthen children both individually and socially.

Conclusion: Artistic clay-work workshops are primarily beneficial through an explicitly artistic attitude and an artistic setting with a focus on autonomy, openness, freedom and inclusion.

Introduction: Perceptions of exercise are important in ensuring physical activity is translated into daily life. If dance is perceived as enjoyable exercise, promoting it may increase exercise engagement in people with stroke.

Objective: To examine perceptions of dance as exercise in people with chronic stroke after participating in an adapted dance program.

Materials and methods: Qualitative interpretive description approach utilizing semi-structured face to face interviews with 18 people post-stroke who completed a 10-week adapted dance program.

Results: Three themes were identified: (1) Dance is Exercise; (2) Dance Moves Beyond Exercise; and (3) Dance Harnesses Humanity in Exercise.

Discussion: According to participants in this study, dance offers elements of traditional physical rehabilitation (i.e. improved balance) and creates a humanistic space where more intangible elements (i.e. liberation, personal growth) are accessed organically. These findings illuminate dance as a holistic approach to rehabilitation, as it addresses both the physical and psychosocial impacts of stroke.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread decreases in well-being, and people turned to various coping resources to mitigate declines in well-being.

Method: In a large (N = 873) representative US adult sample collected in the fall of 2020, we examined the degree to which people coped using the arts and humanities and the perceived impact of the pandemic and how these factors were associated with well-being.

Results: We found coping with the arts was associated with many facets of well-being and, for many of these associations, the more people felt impacted by the pandemic, the stronger the relationship with coping with the arts. We further examined the nature of people's typical arts engagement (e.g. immersion, reflectiveness) with the use of arts to cope.

Conclusions: These findings suggest the arts may play a role in well-being experiences during challenging circumstances and the need for continued examination of the role the arts play in well-being.

Background: Access to pain relief is a fundamental human right, yet child and adolescent pain can remain unheard and untreated . We aimed to understand and testify to young people's pain experiences.

Methods: This is the first systematic review of qualitative research to present findings as poetry. We followed stages of meta-ethnography, using verbatim poetry to express the findings.

Results: We included 189 studies incorporating 5875 young people with pain across a range of conditions and contexts. Our findings highlight the ambiguity of pain . This ambiguity is exacerbated by unpredictability, absence of diagnosis, and a tangle of bio-psycho-social factors.

Conclusions: Verbatim poetry can help us to imagine what it is like to live in someone else' shoes. Poetry can therefore contribute to compassionate and high-quality care. Future research might explore the role of poetry inmore inclusive research.

Background: PhotoVoice - a series of workshops involving participatory photography and narrative-building - was employed in the rural town of Comerío, Puerto Rico (PR) to describe disaster recovery in a rural setting and foster policy dialogue.

Methods: Using PhotoVoice workshops and ethnographic observations, the project describes how women affiliated with a local community-based organization described the priorities for disaster recovery in visual images and narratives. We draw analytically upon theories of intersectionality and coloniality to describe socio-structural and community factors that shape community health in the context of ongoing disasters.

Results: Analysis indicated that gender and generational differences are key intersecting factors that mediate adaptation to disasters in this setting.

Conclusions: The project, which has already shown impacts on local policy decisions, demonstrates the possibilities of using PhotoVoice to foster community-driven crisis responses and policy dialogue that can shape health promotion and disaster recovery responses in PR and elsewhere.