Clinical trial NCT02890940: Bridging the Gap: Using Video Art to Document the Human Face of Disease & Predict Quality of Life Assessments in Brain Tumor Patients
Official title: Bridging the Gap: Using Video Art to Document the Human Face of Disease & Predict Quality of Life Assessments in Brain Tumor Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Brain Tumors
Quality of Life
Animal Assisted Therapy
Lead sponsor: Indiana University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-09-07
Enrollment: 13
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The goal of this study is to explore whether facial expression changes in visual portraits correlate with Quality of Life (QOL) questionnaire responses before and after pet therapy sessions and to compare scores of QOL questionnaires before and after pet therapy.

Detailed description: Through this pilot study, the investigators propose to create new intersections between video art and clinical care by photographing and videotaping patients with brain tumors before, during and after pet therapy sessions. This exploratory scholarship has two equally compelling goals. First, the artistic component of the project aims to create compelling slow motion video portraits of patients' willing to share their experiences of what it is like to confront such a grave illness. The goal is to put a human face on disease and share the endurance of the human spirit through art. Second, the scientific component will assess the potential of using facial video portraits as a novel and innovative way to measure Quality of Life (QOL) in lieu of questionnaires in brain tumor patients. In addition, the project will evaluate the effects of pet therapy on the QOL of these patients.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients with brain tumors
* Willingness to participate in a brief pet therapy session with a dog
* Willingness to allow photographs, pictures and audio used in an art exhibit

Exclusion Criteria:

* Allergy to dogs
* Concurrent disease or condition that would make the patient inappropriate for study participation or any serious medical or psychiatric disorder that would interfere with the subject's safety

Primary outcomes:
measure: Correlation of facial expression changes with QOL questionnaire responses
timeFrame: Immediately prior to therapy session to immediately after therapy session
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Comparison of scores of QOL questionnaires before and after pet therapy
timeFrame: Immediately prior to therapy session to immediately after therapy session
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Indiana University
name: Mahua Dey, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Indiana University
name: Stefan Petranek
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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