NCT04195217

" Application of Art Therapy in Oncology: Evaluation of the Symptomatic of Patients Suffering From a Cancerous Disease"

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 86 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier de Perigueux · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of art-therapeutic management on a patient with cancer, during chemotherapy treatment, on the reduction of physical or psychological symptoms. Art therapy is a non-drug approach that can help some patients cope with the consequences of cancer beyond the care provided. The common psychosocial difficulties experienced by cancer patients are pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety, drowsiness. In sum, the well-being and quality of life of the patient throughout the illness. The main objective is to evaluate the impact of art therapy, as a supportive care, on improving the well-being felt after a session of cancer treatments (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, ...), during 6 sessions( around 24 days between 2 sessions) , at patients with a cancer pathology using two questionnaires, one on the evaluation of symptoms (ESAS), the other on the quality of life (FACT-G).

Detailed description

Patients will be randomized into the following groups: * Group 1: Art therapy as supportive care in 6 consecutive sessions of cancer treatments with or without additional supportive care * Group 2: 6 consecutive sessions of cancer treatments with or without additional supportive care. Symptom assessment with the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) is done before and after each treatment session for each patient. The FACT-G questionnaire on the quality of life at the beginning and the end of the care for the two groups (group benefiting from the art-therapy and group not benefiting from the art-therapy) and a questionnaire on the contribution of art therapy, at the end of care, for the participants of the art-therapy group.

Conditions

• Therapy-Associated Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Art therapy	When the patient is placed in a treatment room, a nurse or the ARC proposes to complete the questionnaires corresponding to his visit in accordance with the diagram of the investigations, then retrieve the questionnaire and forward it to the art therapist Then, the art therapist intervenes ans propose different Artistic supports : paint, watercolor pencils, pastels, pencils, clay , origami, music in as an accompaniment to artistic creation. The workshop runs from 30 minutes to 2:30. It can be cut by doctors and nurses interventions during medical care. The limit of care is set at 2:30 for reasons of concentration of the patient, organization of the service but the patient is an actor of his care, and chooses when the session ends. At the end of intervention, the nurse or the ARC proposes at patient to complete the end questionnaire. Theses last are retrieve it and to forward it to the art therapist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-07
• Primary completion: 2023-03-17
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2019-12-11
• Last updated: 2021-12-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France