NCT06127121

A Digital Art Activity to Enhance Self-Disclosure and the Detection of Psycho-social Distress in Adult Cancer Patients

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To look at how a digital art activity may help cancer patients improve their ability to express their distress, symptoms, and lived experience.

Detailed 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 on the self-report scoring on the Distress Disclosure Index score at T0, T2 and T3.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Digital 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

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-02
• Primary completion: 2027-08-31
• Completion: 2027-08-31
• First posted: 2023-11-13
• Last updated: 2025-11-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States