NCT02801045

Art Therapy in Palliative Care: Study of Identification and Understanding of the Mechanisms of Change in the Patient

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates from the patient's perspective which elements of the own artistic creative process are the source of a beneficial change for him/her and how those elements influence in their end of life experience.

Detailed description

In previous quantitative studies about the effect of an art therapy intervention in adult cancer inpatients of the Palliative Care Unit, the investigators evidenced significant improvements in the symptom control of malaise, anxiety, depression and pain. This study is designed to deepen the understanding of specific action mechanisms which lead to those therapeutic benefits and quality of life implications for patients with life-threatening illness in which a situation of suffering is frequently detected. The investigators will determine from the subjective patient's experience which specific elements of the artistic creative process (including production of art and art products) may lead to changes in the symptom perception, in meaning and healing process and in the personal perspective about the end of life situation.

Conditions

• Psychological Stress
• Suffering
• Advanced Cancers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	art therapy	Patient's creativity is stimulated by visual arts materials and various art therapy techniques including punctual use of music, poetry and body expression. The intervention, based on the investigators previous experience, is founded on: * humanistic phenomenological focus * transpersonal therapeutic bound * transdisciplinarity in the artistic approach * integrative-relational specialized counseling of the grief, loss and trauma aspects.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-10-20
• Primary completion: 2020-06-30
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2016-06-15
• Last updated: 2022-03-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain