The Effect of the Art-based Mandala Intervention on the Quality of Life of Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy (ARQULA)

Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Alexithymia

Chemotherapy Effect

Quality of Life

Cancer

Fatigue

Rumination

Treatments

Behavioral: Art based mandala

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05344820

ARQULA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of mandala application on fatigue, quality of life, rumination and alexithymia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.

Full description

A randomized controlled study on the effect of mandala application on cancer related fatigue, quality of life, rumination and alexithymia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy has not been found in the literature.

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of mandala application on fatigue, quality of life, rumination and alexithymia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.

Enrollment

90 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

18 years or older
Conscious and no communication problems
Being literate
Having a cancer diagnosis
Receiving chemotherapy treatment (planned to continue treatment for 8 more weeks)
Willing to participate in our study voluntarily

Exclusion criteria

Not being willing to participate in the research
Desire to leave the study at any time
Deterioration of compliance with the working criteria during the time of the study,
Those who do not participate in up to four mandala applications during the study period
Those who cannot use a pen
Those with a diagnosis of psychiatric and neurological disease
Patients who are scheduled for drug intervention, radiotherapy, surgery other than chemotherapy within 8 weeks