ArticlePloS one2018
"I now have a life!" Lived experiences of participation in music and theater in a mental health hospital.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Leisure Programmes in Hospitalised People: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- The illness management and recovery program: a contribution to recovery-oriented secondary mental health services.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Exploring the Lived Experience on Recovery from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) among Women Survivors and Five CHIME Concepts: A Qualitative Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Me and us: Cultivating presence and mental health through choir singing.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2022Article
- Music Activities and Mental Health Recovery: Service Users' Perspectives Presented in the CHIME Framework.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The use of music for children and adolescents living with rare diseases in the healthcare setting: a scoping review study protocol.HRB open research · 2021Article
- Implementing Silent Disco Headphones in a Hospital Unit: A Qualitative Study of Feasibility, Acceptance, and Experience Among Patients and Staff.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
Participation in activities perceived to be meaningful is of importance in recovery processes among people with mental illness. This qualitative study explored experiences of participation in music and theater among people with long-term mental illness. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 11 participants in a music and theater workshop carried out in a Norwegian mental health hospital context. Through a hermeneutical-phenomenological analysis, three central themes emerged: (a) engaging in the moment, (b) reclaiming everyday life, and (c) dreaming of a future. The findings indicate that participation in music and theater provided an opportunity to focus on enjoyable mundane activities and demonstrate how arts have the potential to bring meaning and more specifically small positive moments into participants' lives. Despite seeming to be small in nature, these moments appeared to be able to add pleasure and meaning to the lives of those experiencing them. Consequently, there is a need to raise professionals' awareness of these small positive moments of meaning, the power these experiences carry, and how to facilitate arenas which can provide such moments for people with long-term mental illness.
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