An interventional study of art therapy in Psychological Stress, Suffering and Advanced Cancers, sponsored by Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Completed at 1 site in Spain. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-03-24.
Sponsored by Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
This study evaluates from the patient's perspective which elements of the own artistic creative process are the source of a beneficial change for him/her and how those elements influence in their end of life experience.
In previous quantitative studies about the effect of an art therapy intervention in adult cancer inpatients of the Palliative Care Unit, the investigators evidenced significant improvements in the symptom control of malaise, anxiety, depression and pain.
This study is designed to deepen the understanding of specific action mechanisms which lead to those therapeutic benefits and quality of life implications for patients with life-threatening illness in which a situation of suffering is frequently detected.
The investigators will determine from the subjective patient's experience which specific elements of the artistic creative process (including production of art and art products) may lead to changes in the symptom perception, in meaning and healing process and in the personal perspective about the end of life situation.
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This study's enrollment of 103 is above the median of 85 across 632 interventional studies indexed under Stress, Psychological.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Individual 30-60 minutes art therapy sessions, twice a week, offering visual arts materials.
Behavioral: art therapy
Patient's creativity is stimulated by visual arts materials and various art therapy techniques including punctual use of music, poetry and body expression. The intervention, based on the investigators previous experience, is founded on: * humanistic phenomenological focus * transpersonal therapeutic bound * transdisciplinarity in the artistic approach * integrative-relational specialized counseling of the grief, loss and trauma aspects.
Reflect Interview (RI) using audio recording.
An art based interview is administered and involves the patients selecting 2 significant artworks from their art therapy productions. The patient is asked by the art therapist for a narrative of how one artwork relates to the other in the context of his/her lived experience. The art therapy dialogue from the RI is transcribed and subjected to thematic analysis.
Time frame: After the making of a minimum of 5 art pieces, an average of 2 weeks
Art therapy process from the art therapist perspective.
Detailed notes and photographical register.
Time frame: Every day of art therapy session, with an average of 2 sessions a week, over a period of 2 years.
Plan to share: No
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