Application of Painting Analysis and Psychotherapy in Children With Bone Tumors

Henan Cancer Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bone Tumors

Treatments: Other: Painting therapy and psychoanalysis

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05475938

LHGJ20200165

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the population suffering from cancer, children and teenagers are in the majority. For children with rapid development of body and mind, with the change of cognitive ability, they will feel anxiety and fear about the expected potential negative events. Painting art therapy is a kind of non-verbal psychological therapy through the interaction between the painter, the painting work and the therapist, with the painting creation activity as the intermediary. The purpose is to develop symbolic language, touch the inner subconscious, and integrate into the personality, so as to produce cognitive and behavioral changes. Painting therapy and psychological analysis can improve the treatment compliance of children bone tumor patients, make psychological nursing and health education of patients more targeted, and promote the cooperation between medical care and patients.

Full description

In the population suffering from cancer, children and teenagers are in the majority. For children with rapid development of body and mind, with the change of cognitive ability, they will feel anxiety and fear about the expected potential negative events. Painting art therapy is a kind of non-verbal psychological therapy through the interaction between the painter, the painting work and the therapist, with the painting creation activity as the intermediary. The purpose is to develop symbolic language, touch the inner subconscious, and integrate into the personality, so as to produce cognitive and behavioral changes. Painting therapy and psychological analysis can improve the treatment compliance of children bone tumor patients, make psychological nursing and health education of patients more targeted, and promote the cooperation between medical care and patients. Forty pediatric bone tumor patients meeting the requirements were selected from the bone and soft tissue ward of our hospital. Twenty subjects were randomly divided into experimental group and control group. The experimental group underwent psychological evaluation, drawing analysis and psychotherapy intervention before and after chemotherapy and surgery, while the control group only underwent psychological evaluation without drawing analysis and psychotherapy intervention. This experiment was designed to evaluate the change of psychological state of children after intervention. To verify whether the intervention has improved the psychological and cognitive aspects of the children.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Ages 7-16
2. No gender limitation
3. Pathologically confirmed patients with osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma
4. Have painting ability

Exclusion criteria

1. Those who do not cooperate
2. Family members or patients reject this treatment technique
3. The patient has severe intellectual disability;
4. The patient's condition is in critical stage or bone marrow suppression stage or complicated with serious complications.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Analysis of painting

Experimental group

Description:

Pathologically confirmed children with malignant bone tumors, painting therapists to explain the requirements and purpose of painting. After the patient completes the painting, the therapist makes a targeted and individualized analysis and provides psychological counseling by reflecting the patient's psychological state through painting.

Treatment:

Other: Painting therapy and psychoanalysis

Psychological treatment

Experimental group

Description:

After the patient completes the painting, the therapist makes a targeted and individualized analysis and provides psychological counseling by reflecting the patient's psychological state through painting.

Treatment:

Other: Painting therapy and psychoanalysis