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Journal of Clinical and
Basic Psychosomatics Intervention through natural/digital art

some had difficulty with more complex movements and In addition, some senior residents provided the
a few experienced slight declines in mental and physical following individual comments: “It’s wonderful, a sight I’ve
functions. We also interviewed two care staff members, never seen before,” “It made me think of my past self,” “It
who provided free narrative comments after 9 months. This calms me down. I want to see my family,” and “I want this
study protocol was approved by the Yamaguchi University illumination event to be held for a longer period of time.”
Review Committee for Non-Medical Research Involving
Human Participants (approval ID: 2023 – 064). 3.2.2. Interview with staff
On September 25, 2024, 9 months after the illumination event,
3. Results we conducted a 30-min interview with two staff members
3.1. Achievement of implementation during the who provided support and care for the facility’s residents. The
scheduled period facility employs around 40 staff members, including nurses,
nutritionists, helpers, and support staff. However, only around
The exhibition set up in the south courtyard (Figure 6) 10 staff members work at any given time in three shifts. For
successfully ran for 2 months, from December 1 to January
31, without any incidents. It was automatically open from 5 this interview, we spoke with the facility director and the chief
p.m. to 7 p.m. every day. At the request of the home, music support staff member who proposed the illumination project.
As they had already gathered the opinions of the other staff
was not included during the trial period, and the artwork members before the interview, the opinions expressed by
was composed solely of an illumination lighting system these two individuals can be considered representative of
controlled by programming. The exhibition was well received
by the senior citizens of the care facility until the end. the staff as a whole. The interview was conducted 9 months
after the event because it coincided with the planning for the
3.2. Survey responses event for the following year. This timing allowed for a more
balanced comparison between the previous year’s event and
3.2.1. Senior residents in the nursing home
the most recent one in terms of memory.
After the illumination event concluded, we conducted a
Question 1 (Q1): What about the movement of the
survey of the residents of both the low-cost nursing home residents during the exhibition?
and the special nursing home. Out of the 85 respondents,
82 (97%) indicated that they felt positive after seeing the Answer 1 (A1): The concept was that people would
illuminations (Figure 7). The specific expressions they enjoy the illumination while eating in the dining
used in the interviews included phrases such as feeling hall, looking out onto the courtyard, but it was more
cheerful, as if going out to town on the weekend, recalling popular than we had expected. Normally, people
pleasant memories from their childhood, or feeling relaxed would just go back to their rooms after eating, but
and warm. These were grouped under the category of “feel during the exhibition, the lights were on until 7 p.m.,
better,” which refers to subjective positive emotions. and many people stayed in the dining hall until that

Figure 6. The state of the courtyard illumination installation, photographed during the day

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