e-Natureza Project - Affective Validation of Nature Images for Hospital Use

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein164 enrolled

Overview

Randomized clinical trial about the evaluation of the use of nature photographs in the positive and negative affects of oncological patients.

In recent decades there has been growing interest from researchers in understanding how the adoption of natural elements in daily life, even in hospitals, can characterize restorative environments and reflect in better health for patients. Contact with nature can be done indirectly through photographs. This clinical trial aims to verify the therapeutic potential of the nature images, previously validated in another part of this study, in the care of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Anchored on the assumptions of the theory of Biophilia, and the environmental theory of Florence Nightingale our study hypothesis is that this intervention promotes well-being and promote more positive mood states, and reduce symptoms resulting from the treatment during chemotherapy session.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

164

Conditions

Cancer

Interventions

Nature videoOTHER

After signing the Informed Consent Form, the participants will respond to a demographic questionnaire to characterize the sample and then they will watch nature videos. After that, will be applied a scale questionnaire about the physical and psychological symptoms of chemotherapy in the positive and negative mood of that patient.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Voluntary participation; * Signed in the Informed Consent Form; * Who are undergoing chemotherapy treatment; * Patients need to be on the first chemotherapy session, independently of oncological disease; * Patients with clinical conditions and preserved communication function, in other words, lucid patients. Exclusion Criteria: * Blind patients; * Patients without the capacity for judgment, in other words, with dementia; * Patients who have their clinical condition aggravated during the chemotherapy session.

Locations (1)

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

São Paulo, Brazil

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)

The questionnaire aims to verify the positive and negative affects of participants in oncologic treatment before and after their first chemotherapy session, in order to verify if after the intervention, the negative affects decrease and the positive ones increase. Each questionnaire will be analyzed individually.

Time frame: Change from Baseline positive and negative affects at immediate post intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year

Secondary Outcomes

Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS-Br)

This tool is designed to assist in the assessment of nine symptoms common in cancer patients: pain, tiredness, nausea, depression, anxiety, drowsiness, appetite, wellbeing and shortness of breath, (there is also a line labelled "Other Problem"). The severity at the time of assessment of each symptom is rated from 0 to 10 on a numerical scale, 0 meaning that the symptom is absent and 10 that it is of the worst possible severity. It does not have final classification scores. It measures the frequency and intensity of symptoms presented at the time of its application.

Time frame: Change from Baseline Edmonton Symptoms at immediate post intervention, through study completion, an average of 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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