A Digital Art Activity to Enhance Self-Disclosure and the Detection of Psycho-social Distress in Adult Cancer Patients
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Digital Art Activity.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cancer. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
To look at how a digital art activity may help cancer patients improve their ability to express their distress, symptoms, and lived experience.
Detailed description
Primary objective:
* To evaluate how engaging in a digital art activity might potentially cause changes in symptom reporting, based on pre/post self-reporting on the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) at time T3.
Secondary objectives:
* To evaluate the changes in symptom reporting, based on pre/post self-reporting on ESAS at different times of the study (T1, T2). * To evaluate how a specific creative art making activity (T3), compared to an active control condition (T2; music listening) may or may not impact reporting ESAS. * To monitor potential changes in distress disclosure, based on the self-report scoring on the Distress Disclosure Index score at T0, T2 and T3.
Interventions
- Behavioral Digital Art Activity
* complete a symptom questionnaire * complete another activity such as listening to meditative music for 10 minutes * fill out the symptom questionnaire and engage in the digital art activity again
Primary outcome measures
- The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System, (ESAS) questionnaires [Time frame: through study completion; an average 1 year.]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age equal or greater than 18 years
- Patients who are admitted in the hospital and have received a cancer diagnosis.
- Suffering from solid cancer or hematological malignancy and receiving active treatment for their cancer.
- Voluntary written consent.
- Fluent in English or Spanish.
Exclusion criteria
- Not being able to use a digital tablet
- Being speech impaired or vision impaired
- Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to read or consent for the study
- Pregnant women
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06127121 · 2023-0328 · NCI-2023-09557