NCT05907070

Mandala Art and Value Clarification With Parents of Children With Cancer

The Effect of Mandala Art and Value Clarification Based on Watson's Theory of Human Caring on the Anxiety and Mood of Parents of Children With Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: Akdeniz University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The research is planned to be conducted with a randomized controlled experimental study. In the research, it is aimed to determine the effect of mandala drawing art and value clarification application based on Watson Human Care Theory on the anxiety and mood of the parents of children with cancer.

Detailed description

The population of the study consists of the parents of children diagnosed with cancer in the Akdeniz University Hospital Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Clinic. The sample of the study is three groups; intervention 1 group (n:25), intervention 2 group (n:25) and control group (n:25) will consist of a total of 75 parents. A closed envelope system with simple randomization will be used in sample selection. Intervention 1 group will participate in 2 sessions of individual mandala drawing art activity with the theme of 'Emotions' accompanied by classical or instrumental music. In each session, a mandala will be created. Intervention 2 groups will participate in the value clarification activity by writing 2 sessions individually with the theme of 'Emotions' accompanied by classical or instrumental music. Personal Information Form, State Anxiety Inventory and Positive-Negative Affect Scale were administered to the intervention groups at the first meeting in order to collect pre-test data. To collect post-test data, the State Anxiety Inventory and the Positive-Negative Affect Scale were administered immediately after the second session. No intervention will be made to the control group, the same data collection tools were applied to the intervention groups. In addition, Iin the second session, the parent was asked to interpret the colors and shapes in the mandala created by the parent and a face-to-face interview was held.

Conditions

• Nursing Caries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mandala group	Mandala group will participate in 2 sessions of individual mandala drawing art activity with the theme of 'Emotions' accompanied by classical or instrumental music. In each session, a mandala will be created.
OTHER	Value clarification group	Value clarification groups will participate in the value clarification activity by writing 2 sessions individually with the theme of 'Emotions' accompanied by classical or instrumental music.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-01
• Primary completion: 2024-05-15
• Completion: 2024-06-15
• First posted: 2023-06-18
• Last updated: 2024-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)