To look at how a digital art activity may help cancer patients improve their ability to express their distress, symptoms, and lived experience.
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 Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
60
* 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
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States
RECRUITINGThe Edmonton Symptom Assessment System, (ESAS) questionnaires
Score Scale (0-10) 0 No symptom-10 Worst possible
Time frame: through study completion; an average 1 year.
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