A Digital Art Activity to Enhance Self-Disclosure and the Detection of Psycho-social Distress in Adult Cancer Patients

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Digital Art Activity

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06127121

NCI-2023-09557 (Other Identifier)

2023-0328

Details and patient eligibility

About

To look at how a digital art activity may help cancer patients improve their ability to express their distress, symptoms, and lived experience.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age equal or greater than 18 years
2. Patients who are admitted in the hospital and have received a cancer diagnosis.
3. Suffering from solid cancer or hematological malignancy and receiving active treatment for their cancer.
4. Voluntary written consent.
5. Fluent in English or Spanish.

Exclusion criteria

1. Not being able to use a digital tablet
2. Being speech impaired or vision impaired
3. Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to read or consent for the study
4. Pregnant women

Trial design

60 participants in 1 patient group

Digital Art Activity

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Digital Art Activity