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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.
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.
Based on the patients currently using Creative Writing/Poetry.
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How long current patients have been using Creative Writing/Poetry or how long patients were using Creative Writing/Poetry before stopping.
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| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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| Other | 1 | 100% |
Results from 5 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
| Major | 33% | 1 |
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| Moderate | 67% | 2 |
Other
| 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.
Report created on November 08, 2009.