Mediclowning is a new therapy involving clowns.
This involves the clowns engaging with patients to relieve anxiety that comes with a hospital experience and promote optimism in grim wards.
BENEFITS of mediclowning
It benefits patients
medical ,dental professionals and other healthcare professionals.
geriatric patients
children
PATIENTS: THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS ARE EXPERIENCED:
- Reduces pain and stress.
- Strengthens immune system.
- Reduces the fear of the unknown.
- Channels nervous energy or built up tension into healthy expression.
- Relief of fear anxiety and apprehension.
- Humanizes challenging medical environments and interventions.
- Allowing patients to express their unpleasant feelings in a healthy way.
- Interrupts blocked patterns that may be interfering with the healing.
- Improves the communication between the patient and staff.
- Greater patient compliance in taking medications
- Assists medical staff to perform examinations and procedures.
CHILDREN
- Helps children to cope better with their medical condition.
- Lowers anxiety during medical procedures.
- Provides children with a sense of control in a helpless situation.
- Changes role perception between medical staff and patient.
- Allows children to be children and to play despite their condition.
- Encourages greater willingness to take their medication.
- Reduces stress and fear during medical forensic examinations in sexual abuse cases.
GERIATRIC PATIENTS
- Reconnecting and grounding dementia patients with their current surroundings.
- Improve communication with staff.
- Brings back a sense of humor into difficult life and health conditions.
- Medi Clowning is a powerful and complementary addition for chronic and degenerative conditions like dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and cancer.
- Nursing staff report that Medi Clowning contributes to the reduction of patients’ aggressive behavior in nursing homes and enhances a more positive and happier attitude towards life.
