A Nurse Led Project to Introduce Hand Lettering as a Form of Creative Art Expression to Patients in an Ambulatory Oncology Setting

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Breathing and journaling exercise; Other: Art-therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03291730

17-377

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators are conducting a project to provide a new type of resource called "hand lettering" to patients receiving chemotherapy. This is a type of art therapy. The goal of this project is to understand if it is feasible to use art-therapy and to describe anxiety before and after completing hand-lettering.

Full description

This study is being done to understand if it is feasible to use a form of art-therapy called hand-lettering at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. We would also like to explore the anxiety a person has before and after using hand-lettering.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients (>age 18) with a cancer diagnosis receiving oral or IV chemotherapy at Dana-Farber on Yawkey 10.
• Able to read and speak English
• Has a minimum appointment time of 60 minutes

Exclusion criteria

-Individuals with visual impairment or blindness will be excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 1 patient group

Hand Lettering

Experimental group

Description:

* The participant will engage in art-therapy by tracing and coloring a detailed letter or word * Participants will also be guided through a relaxation breathing and journaling exercise that can be incorporated into the art activity.

Treatment:

Other: Art-therapy

Behavioral: Breathing and journaling exercise