The Effect of Art Therapy on Physical and Psychological Symptoms of Breast Cancer Survivors

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Breast Cancer
• Interventions: Behavioral: Control; Behavioral: Group art therapy

• Registration Number: NCT02982421
• Lead Sponsor: Rabin Medical Center

Brief Summary

Art Therapy is a health profession in which art making is utilized as a means of expression and communication within a therapeutic and supportive relationship \[1\]. Art therapy has been shown to reduce psychological (anxiety, negative mood) and physical (pain, fatigue) symptoms which accompany many breast cancer patients and survivors \[2-7\]. Qualitative studies provide an initial understanding of the mechanisms through which art therapy facilitates symptom reduction \[8\]. Breast cancer patients have reported that art therapy provided them with access to emotional material otherwise inaccessible \[9\]. The goal of this study is to examine the effect of art making within a therapeutic framework on emotional awareness and acceptance.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2016-07
• Study First Submitted: 2016-07-24
• Study Start: 2016-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-12-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-12-01
• Study First Posted: 2016-12-05
• Last Update Posted: 2016-12-05
• Primary Completion: 2017-05
• Study Completion: 2017-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

Adult women (over age 18), breast cancer survivors without evidence of active illness, hebrew speaking and receiving preventative hormonal therapy for at least 6 months (steady state), receiving care at the survivor's clinic of Davidoff Medical Center

Exclusion Criteria

A psychiatric diagnosis requiring medication, functional difficulties that affect the ability to handle art supplies, non-hebrew speaking, unwilling to answer the research questionnaires

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control	Control	Participants will receive Psychoeducational material in the form of a lecture and will engage in the coloring of mandalas.
Research	Group art therapy	Group Art Therapy

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of Life: The FACT-B (Hahn et al, 2015)	Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks)	36 item scale

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS; Lane et al, 1990)	Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks)	20 item scale
Acceptance of Emotion Scale (AE; Weihs et al, 2008)	Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks)	13 item scale
Emotional Approach Coping scales (Stanton et al., 2000)	Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks)	36 item scale
The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)(Carlson & Brown, 2005).	Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks)	15 item scale
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) (Cohen, 1997)	Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks)	20 item scale
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) (Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams, & Löwe, 2006)	Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks)	7 item scale
The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial (BCPT) Symptom Scales (Stanton et al., 2005)	Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks)	23 item scale

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Rabin Medical center; 🇮🇱 Petah Tikva, Israel