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

Recruiting

• Conditions: Cancer
• Interventions: Behavioral: Digital Art Activity

• Registration Number: NCT06127121
• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Brief 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-11-02
• Study First Submitted: 2023-11-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-11-07
• Study First Posted: 2023-11-13
• Status Verified: 2025-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-06-03
• Last Update Posted: 2025-06-05
• Primary Completion: 2025-08-31
• Study Completion: 2025-08-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

1. Age equal or greater than 18 years
2. Patients who are admitted in the hospital and have received a cancer diagnosis.
3. Suffering from solid cancer or hematological malignancy and receiving active treatment for their cancer.
4. Voluntary written consent.
5. Fluent in English or Spanish.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Not being able to use a digital tablet
2. Being speech impaired or vision impaired
3. Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to read or consent for the study
4. Pregnant women

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Digital Art Activity	Digital Art Activity	Visit 1, Participants will be asked to complete a symptom questionnaire and then you will interact with the digital art tool. Participants will first complete a short breathing exercise, and then Participants will interact with the digital art tool. The digital tool combines a digital canvas with a collage activity. Participants will be asked to choose a background and then answer questions about your general well-being and your physical and emotional symptoms as they relate to cancer and cancer treatment. Visit 2, Participants will be asked to fill out the symptom questionnaire, complete another activity such as listening to meditative music for 10 minutes, and then fill out the symptom questionnaire again. Visit 3, Participants will fill out the symptom questionnaire and engage in the digital art activity again. Participants will then be asked to fill out 3 other questionnaires about your feelings of distress.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System, (ESAS) questionnaires	through study completion; an average 1 year.	Score Scale (0-10) 0 No symptom-10 Worst possible

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

MD Anderson Cancer Center; 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States