Colorado Matters: April 12, 2023: Art therapy eases stress for medical workers

Research at CU Anschutz in Aurora looks at how making art might help ease stress and trauma in the health care field. Marc Moss, a critical care doctor at the University of Colorado medical center who has studied mental health in hospital workers for decades. “We’ve been studying mental health in health care workers for about 20 years now, and when we would first present this at national meetings people didn’t really appreciate or understand the magnitude of what we were talking about. We initially called it a silent epidemic.”