NCT03994718

Creative Arts II Study

Creative Arts Interventions for Improved Epilepsy Patient Quality of Life

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of music, visual art, or creative writing on quality of life measures for epilepsy patients.

Detailed description

Qualifying patients admitted to Epilepsy Monitoring Unit will be approached for participation in the study. Patients who consent will be randomly assigned to work with one of three creative artists (visual artist, creative writer, or therapeutic musician. The assigned artist will provide 1 intervention while the patient is admitted and 4 follow-up interventions after discharge from the hospital. Follow-up sessions will be conducted remotely, either by phone or over the internet. Subjects will be asked to complete study questionnaires before and after the first art intervention, and again after the last follow-up session. The study seeks to measure the impact of arts interventions on quality of life. Secondary objectives include the effects of the interventions on seizure frequency and EEG spike generation, as well as the impact of creative arts interventions on patients diagnosed with non-epileptic events during hospitalization.\*

Conditions

• Epilepsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music intervention	The music therapist will work with subjects for up to 60 minutes each session.
OTHER	Visual arts intervention	The visual artist will work with subjects for up to 60 minutes each session.
OTHER	Creative writing intervention	The creative writer will work with subjects for up to 60 minutes each session.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-30
• Primary completion: 2021-04-01
• Completion: 2021-04-01
• First posted: 2019-06-21
• Last updated: 2021-06-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States