This study examines the effects of art therapy on anxiety, pruritus, and the severity of lesions suffered
by children with atopic dermatitis(AD). The subjects of this study comprised eight children between the
ages of 7 and 12 with AD at the S Medical Center in Seoul. Art therapy was conducted 10 times along
with the routine dermatology medication, once a week from February to April 2015. We used 'RCMAS'
scale, uredo VAS scale, and SCORAD index evaluation to measure anxiety and progress of urticarial before
and after art therapy, and at additional three points during the period of art therapy. SPSS 20.0 was used
for statistical analysis. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to examine anxiety of severity of lesions, and
repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to measure subjects' urticarial. The results of this
study are as follows: First, art therapy helped alleviate the anxiety and the statistically significant outcomes
prove its efficacy. Second, art therapy was statistically effective in alleviating the severity of urticarial and
imporved the severity of lesions. Therefore, the intervention of art therapy is effective for the children with
AD in reducing the level of psychological disorders, physical distress, and severity of lesions.