A Digital Art Activity to Enhance Self-Disclosure and the Detection of Psycho-social Distress in Adult Cancer Patients
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Summary
To look at how a digital art activity may help cancer patients improve their ability to express their distress, symptoms, and lived experience.
Description
Primary objective: * To evaluate how engaging in a digital art activity might potentially cause changes in symptom reporting, based on pre/post self-reporting on the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) at time T3. Secondary objectives: * To evaluate the changes in symptom reporting, based on pre/post self-reporting on ESAS at different times of the study (T1, T2). * To evaluate how a specific creative art making activity (T3), compared to an active control condition (T2; music listening) may or may not impact reporting ESAS. * To monitor potential changes in distress disclosure, based…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age equal or greater than 18 years 2. Patients who are admitted in the hospital and have received a cancer diagnosis. 3. Suffering from solid cancer or hematological malignancy and receiving active treatment for their cancer. 4. Voluntary written consent. 5. Fluent in English or Spanish. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Not being able to use a digital tablet 2. Being speech impaired or vision impaired 3. Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to read or consent for the study 4. Pregnant women
Interventions
- BehavioralDigital Art Activity
* complete a symptom questionnaire * complete another activity such as listening to meditative music for 10 minutes * fill out the symptom questionnaire and engage in the digital art activity again
Location
- MD Anderson Cancer CenterHouston, Texas