A Pilot Study of Creative Arts Interventions for Neurology Inpatients in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and the Headache Service
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 33
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Feasibility of conducting a creative arts intervention study
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of the study is to assess the feasibility of a Creative Artists Program intervention with epilepsy and headache patients admitted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for care by the Department of Neurology.
Detailed Description
Qualifying patients admitted to Epilepsy monitoring or Headache treatment will be approached for participation in the study. Patients who consent to the study will be given a chance to work with one of three creative artists (visual artist, creative writer, therapeutic musician). The artist will be selected according to a pre-determined schedule, and the arts intervention may last up to 90 minutes. Subjects will be asked to complete study questionnaires before and after the arts intervention.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Age > or = 18 years
- •Diagnosis of refractory chronic epilepsy, status migrainosus, or chronic daily headache
- •Elective admission to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Epilepsy monitoring unit or Headache service
- •Capable of giving informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
- •Active psychiatric illness that prohibits safe visitation by artists
- •Impairment of vision or hearing that would prohibit able to participate with participation in instructions necessary for the interventions.
- •Active general medical condition that would impair consciousness.
Arms & Interventions
Artist Intervention
One of the three artists (visual artist, music therapist, creative writer) will work with subjects for up to 90 minutes.
Intervention: Art Intervention (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Feasibility of conducting a creative arts intervention study
Time Frame: Through study completion, approximately 1 year
The feasibility of the creative intervention will be determined by the completion rates of the initial intervention attempts. If less than 50% of patients complete the intervention it will be deemed unfeasible in the current format.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in patient anxiety before and after the intervention(Each patient will be assessed at baseline (Day 1) and after the intervention (approximately Day 3 - 21).)
- Change in patient distress before and after the intervention(Each patient will be assessed at baseline (Day 1) and after the intervention (approximately Day 3 - 21).)
- Length of hospital stay(Each patient's admission duration (approximately 3 - 21 Days).)
- Change in frequency of as-needed pain medication use(Each patient as-needed medication use will be assessed after the arts intervention and until discharge from the hospital (approximately Day 3 - 21).)
- Change in patient depression before and after the intervention(Each patient will be assessed at baseline (Day 1) and after the intervention (approximately Day 3 - 21).)
Investigators
Lara K. Ronan
Principal Investigator
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center