" Application of Art Therapy in Oncology: Evaluation of the Symptomatic of Patients Suffering From a Cancerous Disease" (ARONCO)

Centre Hospitalier de Perigueux

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Therapy-Associated Cancer

Treatments

Behavioral: Art therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04195217

ID-RCB 2018-A03304-51

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of art-therapeutic management on a patient with cancer, during chemotherapy treatment, on the reduction of physical or psychological symptoms.

Art therapy is a non-drug approach that can help some patients cope with the consequences of cancer beyond the care provided.

The common psychosocial difficulties experienced by cancer patients are pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety, drowsiness. In sum, the well-being and quality of life of the patient throughout the illness.

The main objective is to evaluate the impact of art therapy, as a supportive care, on improving the well-being felt after a session of cancer treatments (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, ...), during 6 sessions( around 24 days between 2 sessions) , at patients with a cancer pathology using two questionnaires, one on the evaluation of symptoms (ESAS), the other on the quality of life (FACT-G).

Full description

Patients will be randomized into the following groups:

Group 1: Art therapy as supportive care in 6 consecutive sessions of cancer treatments with or without additional supportive care
Group 2: 6 consecutive sessions of cancer treatments with or without additional supportive care.

Symptom assessment with the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) is done before and after each treatment session for each patient.

The FACT-G questionnaire on the quality of life at the beginning and the end of the care for the two groups (group benefiting from the art-therapy and group not benefiting from the art-therapy) and a questionnaire on the contribution of art therapy, at the end of care, for the participants of the art-therapy group.

Enrollment

86 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

aged over 18
patient cared for on Onco-hematology day with a cancerous pathology
consent of the patient
patient affiliated to social Security

Exclusion criteria

patient minor
patient under legal protection
patient with too much impairment of vital and / or cognitive functions to participate and understand the study
patient whose predictable management is less than the follow-up period (6 sessions),
patient who has already participated in an art therapy session during their lifetime