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

Table 3

Primary theme 1: adjectival changes.

Transcript number	Preintervention adjectives	Postintervention adjectives
1	“Quiet, reserved, frightened, moody, hyper focused, and kind” (33)	“Kind, lively, happy, and funny” (38)
2	“Hopeless, trivial-like the management, to be honest waste of space and resources” (32)	“Definitely not hopeless, that’s it” (33)
4	“Lost and afraid,” (29)	“Hopeful and trying,” (20, 31)
5	“Dependent” (30); “Agitated” (33-34)	“Friendliness” (43); “It seemed like they could enjoy life and you know interact” (49, 50)
7	“Trapped, sad” (33)	“Potential, sad, hopeful” (34)
8	“Crazy, bipolar, sometimes, completely normal” (81–83)	“Still part of them that’s there. Human beings. Self part is still there for the some of those patients” (89–91)
9	“Lively in some ways, creative” (24-25)	“More so lively and creative” (26)
10	“Cant think of any before” (42)	“After APP, umm, I would use the adjective creative, funny[…]human because they still express the same emotions as everyone else[…] not robots or degenerate vegetable or anything like that but […]alive or something like that” (43–46)
15	No adjective given before intervention	“I would say cheerful and full of life and sincere and just funny” (41–43)
14	“Frustrated I guess, annoyed by people” (53-4)	“Really appreciate like people trying to help them out. It was just the opposite, I just can’t find the real words to describe it” (58–60)

Numbers following quotes refer to line in interview transcript where statement is found.