A Digital Art Activity to Enhance Self-Disclosure and the Detection of Psycho-social Distress in Adult Cancer Patients
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
To look at how a digital art activity may help cancer patients improve their ability to express their distress, symptoms, and lived experience.
| Condition or Disease | Intervention/Treatment | Phase |
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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:
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To evaluate the changes in symptom reporting, based on pre/post self-reporting on ESAS at different times of the study (T1, T2).
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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.
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To monitor potential changes in distress disclosure, based on the self-report scoring on the Distress Disclosure Index score at T0, T2 and T3.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
| Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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| Digital Art Activity Visit 1, Participants will be asked to complete a symptom questionnaire and then you will interact with the digital art tool. Participants will first complete a short breathing exercise, and then Participants will interact with the digital art tool. The digital tool combines a digital canvas with a collage activity. Participants will be asked to choose a background and then answer questions about your general well-being and your physical and emotional symptoms as they relate to cancer and cancer treatment. Visit 2, Participants will be asked to fill out the symptom questionnaire, complete another activity such as listening to meditative music for 10 minutes, and then fill out the symptom questionnaire again. Visit 3, Participants will fill out the symptom questionnaire and engage in the digital art activity again. Participants will then be asked to fill out 3 other questionnaires about your feelings of distress. |
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
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System, (ESAS) questionnaires [through study completion; an average 1 year.]
Score Scale (0-10) 0 No symptom-10 Worst possible
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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Age equal or greater than 18 years
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Patients who are admitted in the hospital and have received a cancer diagnosis within six months to one year of the study.
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Suffering from colorectal cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer or lung cancer and receiving active treatment for their cancer.
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Voluntary written consent.
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Fluent in English or Spanish.
Exclusion Criteria:
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Not being able to use a digital tablet
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Being speech impaired or vision impaired
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Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to read or consent for the study
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Pregnant women
Contacts and Locations
Locations
| Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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| 1 | MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston | Texas | United States | 77030 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Carlos Roldan, MD, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Additional Information:
Publications
None provided.- 2023-0328
- NCI-2023-09557