Medical Students’ Perceptions of Dementia after Participation in Poetry Workshop with People with Dementia

Table 1

Primary themes abstracted from postintervention semistructured qualitative interviews.

1	Shift in types of adjective used to describe ADRD patients: to more hope, capable of creativity, and humanness
2	Poetry intervention: a learning modality revealing the creativity and potentiality of ADRD
3	Learned how to use and consider the tool of poetry for enhancing ADRD patients' quality of life^†
4	Surprised at the effectiveness of the nonbiomedical disease management technique
5	Expressed amazement at ADRD patients’ novel and heartfelt contributions to poetry construction exercise

Primary theme: ≥9 out of 11 participants supported theme with verbatim quotes from transcribed semistructured interviews.
^†10 out of 11 participants supported theme with verbatim quotes from transcribed semistructured interviews.