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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Nursing Research and Practice Volume 2011, Article ID 204594, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/204594 Research Article The Dynamics of Visual Art Dialogues: Experiences to Be Used in Hospital Settings with Visual Art Enrichment ¨ 1, 2 Britt-Maj Wikstrom 1 Department of Health, Nutrition and Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, 0130 Oslo, Norway 2 Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to Britt-Maj Wikstrom, britt-maj@home.se Received 8 August 2011; Revised 10 November 2011; Accepted 14 November 2011 Academic Editor: Astrid Skjerven ¨ Copyright © 2011 Britt-Maj Wikstrom. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objectives. Given that hospitals have environmental enrichment with paintings and visual art arrangement, it would be meaningful to develop and document how hospital art could be used by health professionals. Methods. The study was undertaken at an art site in Sweden. During 1-hour sessions, participants (n = 20) get together in an art gallery every second week five times. Results. According to the participants a new value was perceived. From qualitative analyses, three themes appear: raise association, mentally present, and door-opener. In addition 72% of the participants reported makes me happy and gives energy and inspiration, and 52% reported that di