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Creative Writing/Poetry Treatment Report
See also: Journal Writing
What is Creative Writing/Poetry? Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include most novels and epics, as well as many short stories and poems.
Reasons used
55 patients in the community are using or have used Creative Writing/Poetry.
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
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| Other | 14 | 25% |
| Depression | 13 | 23% |
| Support another treatment | 6 | 10% |
| General health | 5 | 9% |
| Cognition | 4 | 7% |
| Anxiety | 2 | 3% |
| Irritability | 2 | 3% |
| Depression,Anxiety,General Health,Irritability,Lonliness | 1 | 1% |
| hypomania | 1 | 1% |
Other treatments patients are using for Other include Walking Stick/Cane, MRI, and Levothyroxine.
Schedules
Based on the patients currently using Creative Writing/Poetry.
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Duration
How long current patients have been using Creative Writing/Poetry or how long patients were using Creative Writing/Poetry before stopping.
Currently Using Creative Writing/Poetry
Stopped Using Creative Writing/Poetry
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| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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| Other | 1 | 100% |  |
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 5 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 33% | 1 |
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| Moderate | 67% | 2 |
Other
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
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| Moderate | 20% | 1 |
| Mild | 20% | 1 |
| None | 60% | 3 |
Top reported side-effects include: Emotional issues
Summary results are based on 5 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 5)
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- Nyrsaeans
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 3
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 32 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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by Nyrsaeans
Oct 24, 2008
- EfficacyModerate
- Side-effectsMild
- Other
- Advice/Tips
- be ready to deal with negative emotional fall-out even if writing for therapeutic and positive reasons
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
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- RobynHoney33
- Sex: F
- Depression: 3
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 1
- Anxiety: 3
- Mania: 1
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Severe
- 33 F
- Function: Low
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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by RobynHoney33
Oct 20, 2009
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsModerate
- Depression
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
Report created on November 08, 2009.