Themes | Subthemes | Identified by | Supporting quotation |
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Perception of art | Mixed preconceptions and apprehensions of art participation | Experimental group, control group and healthcare professionals | My first thought of it [the arts-based intervention] was like how would this even be possible with some patients with only one arm, um, able to do stuff. |
Improved perception of art participation following intervention | Experimental group and healthcare professionals | I was coming from a place where I wasn’t interested in art, I didn’t think I could do it, and she sort of…. How would I put it? Encouraged me, trailed me through it. | |
Negative appraisal of abilities | Experimental group and control group | Half pleased with it, and half not. I didn’t like the way I got the apples, I was trying to make them red and green, but it just didn’t turn out the way I want it. | |
Effect of the arts-based intervention | Generation of positive affect due to exposure to arts-based intervention | Experimental group and healthcare professionals | I think they really enjoyed it, like, you know, they definitely – it was great, I would love to see it in the unit. You know the patients… you get a different side to the patients, and they were so much happier, I think. |
Improved self-esteem | Experimental group, control group and healthcare professionals | Oh, well, I suppose satisfaction that you can add another string to your bow at 80 odd years of age. | |
Sense of purpose | Experimental group, control group and healthcare professionals | Well, it gave me something to go for, like a goal… gave me a goal to go for, you know… You go for that and you keep going for it, you know. | |
Increased social interaction | Experimental group and healthcare professionals | So they were getting that one-to-one time where it was something that was about them and it was positive rather than them being sick and me standing over them. So I thought it was great | |
Positive impact of the arts-based intervention on the dialysis experience | Experimental group and healthcare professionals | It made it look like we just didn’t see it as a dialysis environment, that we were actually looking at different aspects of the patient’s wellbeing. | |
Acceptability of the arts-based intervention | Adaptation of the arts-based intervention to the constraints of a haemodialysis setting | Experimental group and healthcare professionals | See my hand’s tied down. I wouldn’t be able to paint with my right hand, that means I had to paint with my left hand. |
Positive influence of facilitator on participant experience | Experimental group and healthcare professionals | She says ‘Well try (participants name)’ She says ‘it’ll be your own painting, it’ll not be the same, nobody’s two paintings are the same. ‘Cause that’s your painting, and that other ones somebody else’s, what they say, just paint what you see… Yes, it made me feel good because she thought it was good and she was learning me. | |
Importance of participant choice on subject and activity within the arts-based intervention | Experimental group and healthcare professionals | It was supposed to be a scene of you know, eh, by the beach, a beach and water and clouds. Awful! Blob. Blob. Blob. So the next time [the facilitator] arrived she said ‘would you try drawing?’… And I said ‘that’s going to be worse’. So she handed me this pencil, she worked out what was a good pencil for giving a result, and when I started she said ‘you can draw’ | |
Length of the arts-based intervention | Experimental group and healthcare professionals | But some days I thought it was pretty short and other days… well it wasn’t too long, it was never too long. | |
Quality and suitability of materials for the arts-based intervention | Experimental group, control group and healthcare professionals | It was all… catered to the environment. It was fit for the environment. Even if you used water based, they were not like messy water based… what children would use, you know. So it was all very… very accurate. Very well done. | |
Acceptability of research procedures | Factors influencing recruitment | Experimental group and control group | But I do think if they’d actually known what was gonna happen, you know, like pure… I would say they probably just seen paperwork and they went – a lot of them we’re doing like kitchen questionnaires with them, like… you know what I mean? |
Completion and acceptability of outcome measures | Experimental group and control group | I answered the question, but I couldn’t see it’s got anything to do with me on dialysis and doing art. | |
Acceptability of randomisation | Experimental group and control group | Maybe if I had have seen them happening in the ward, maybe it would have annoyed me because I maybe would have wanted to join in, especially if there was laughter and all because then of course, you think you’re missing something. | |
Retention of participants | Experimental group, control group and healthcare professionals | Well there was no point in starting it if you were going to walk away from it! |