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

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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
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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.

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

Conditions
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Cancer

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Digital Art Activity


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Age equal or greater than 18 years Patients who are admitted in the hospital and have received a cancer diagnosis within six months to one year of the study. Suffering from colorectal cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer or lung cancer and receiving active treatment for their cancer. Voluntary written consent. Fluent in English or Spanish. Exclusion Criteria: Not being able to use a digital tablet Being speech impaired or vision impaired Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to read or consent for the study Pregnant women

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Digital Art Activity<br>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. | Behavioral: Digital Art Activity<br>* 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<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

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