Digital Art Therapy for Young Cancer Survivors
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: ARTCan App.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cancer, Pediatric Cancer, Pediatric Malignancies, Pediatric Sarcoma of Soft Tissue. Basic parameters: 18 years — 25 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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Official title
Feasibility of a Digital Art Therapy Application Designed to Improve Quality of Life in Young Cancer Survivors
Overview
This is a single-site, single-arm, interventional study assessing the feasibility of the ARTCan Therapy Application (App) and whether it is an acceptable means of administering art therapy to young adult cancer survivors. The ARTCan Therapy App guides participants through a 6-week digital art therapy program. Subjects will participate in weekly art therapy prompts guided by the app and will complete weekly mental health quality of life (MHQoL) surveys during the intervention. In addition, baseline and end-of-intervention patient-reported outcome measures (PROMIS-DSF8a) and an acceptability survey will be administered. The hypothesis is that digital art therapy is feasible for young adult cancer survivors with self-reported mood issues and is an acceptable means of administering art therapy in the patient population.
Detailed description
The ARTCan application has been designed to define therapy strategies for the care of patients; it emerges from a unique collaboration in the disciplines of design, art, art therapy, and medicine from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and the School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The relevance of the application design was to enable the trans-disciplinary team to experiment with proof of the following concepts: 1) technology-based tools and feasibility studies for new lines of research in treatment; 2) research that embraces intellectual diversity by merging the creative disciplines; and 3) addressing issues of health and well-being of patients. This study is testing whether the digital art therapy application "Art Therapy Can Do" (ARTCan) is a feasible means of administering art therapy to young cancer survivors. The study is funded by the Ian's Friends Foundation and the Weatherspoon Foundation.
Interventions
- Behavioral ARTCan App
The ARTCan App is an art therapy technology application program. The application can be accessed via the web (via computer, phone, or on a device such as an iPad). With the use of the application, participants complete weekly sessions that culminate in an "art" piece. Note that participants are not required to have expertise in drawing; developing art skills or assessing the quality of art pieces is not the focus of the ARTCan program. Subjects will upload a photo of the art they created to thi
Primary outcome measures
- Feasibility of art therapy [Time frame: Up to 6 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Acceptability of art therapy [Time frame: at 6 week]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
In order to participate in this study a subject must meet all of the eligibility criteria outlined below.
- Written informed assent and parental consent obtained to participate in the study and HIPAA authorization for release of personal health information.
- Subject is willing and able to comply with study procedures based on the judgment of the investigator.
- Age 18-25 years at the time of consent.
- Childhood cancer survivor, defined as having cancer between birth 17 years of age and who has completed cancer treatment.
- Reliable internet connection and access to a computer, smartphone, or iPad to support application and virtual study visits.
- Answers "yes" to the question "Do you experience mood issues (yes or no)?".
Exclusion criteria
- All subjects meeting any of the exclusion criteria at baseline will be excluded from study participation.
- Patients who lack interest in art. Screening question: Are you open to making art on a scale from 1-5 (1 being not at all, and 5 being very much; must score 3 or higher).
- Subjects who lack basic technology skills (Screening question: On a scale of 1-5 (1 being uncomfortable, and 5 being very comfortable), how would you rate your comfort using websites. Must score 3 or higher).
- Subjects unable to provide consent.
- Other conditions or factors which in the opinion of the Pl would not make the patient a good candidate for the study.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center — Chapel Hill
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06789666 · LCCC2339