My Mindful Moments: A Mindfulness Meditation and Digital Art Activity

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Meditation; Mindfulness

Treatments: Other: Mindfulness intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04557033

20-420

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this evidence-based practice project is to evaluate the feasibility of providing a relaxation mindfulness meditation and an expressive digital arts activity among clinical staff at Dana Farber Cancer Institute .

Full description

This project provides an opportunity for patient care staff in an ambulatory oncology setting to participate in and evaluate an activity that includes a mindfulness meditation technique and an expressive digital arts activity.

This study will be conducted to evaluate the feasibility of providing a mindfulness meditation and digital imagery activity.

• The activity will include a guided mindfulness meditation and the creation of a digital image on an iPad.
• Participants will be asked to complete brief surveys before and after the intervention activity.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults ≥18 years of age
• Currently employed at Dana Farber Cancer Institute
• Providing patient care on Yawkey

Exclusion criteria

• Not an employee of Dana Farber Cancer Institute
• Not providing Patient Care on Yawkey

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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16 participants in 1 patient group

Mindful Meditation

Experimental group

Description:

* The activity will include a guided mindfulness meditation and the creation of a digital image on an iPad. * The My Moments® application (app) is a tool used to facilitate expressive art creation in a digital photography media * Participants will be asked to complete brief surveys before and after the intervention activity.

Treatment:

Other: Mindfulness intervention