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CompletedNCT05475938Updated Jul 29, 2022

Application of Painting Analysis and Psychotherapy in Children With Bone Tumors

An interventional study of Painting therapy and psychoanalysis in Bone Tumors, sponsored by Henan Cancer Hospital. Completed at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 7 Years to 16 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-07-29.

Sponsored by Henan Cancer Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 9 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Oct 2021, registered Jul 2022).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
7 Years to 16 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

In the population suffering from cancer, children and teenagers are in the majority. For children with rapid development of body and mind, with the change of cognitive ability, they will feel anxiety and fear about the expected potential negative events. Painting art therapy is a kind of non-verbal psychological therapy through the interaction between the painter, the painting work and the therapist, with the painting creation activity as the intermediary. The purpose is to develop symbolic language, touch the inner subconscious, and integrate into the personality, so as to produce cognitive and behavioral changes. Painting therapy and psychological analysis can improve the treatment compliance of children bone tumor patients, make psychological nursing and health education of patients more targeted, and promote the cooperation between medical care and patients.

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In the population suffering from cancer, children and teenagers are in the majority. For children with rapid development of body and mind, with the change of cognitive ability, they will feel anxiety and fear about the expected potential negative events. Painting art therapy is a kind of non-verbal psychological therapy through the interaction between the painter, the painting work and the therapist, with the painting creation activity as the intermediary. The purpose is to develop symbolic language, touch the inner subconscious, and integrate into the personality, so as to produce cognitive and behavioral changes. Painting therapy and psychological analysis can improve the treatment compliance of children bone tumor patients, make psychological nursing and health education of patients more targeted, and promote the cooperation between medical care and patients. Forty pediatric bone tumor patients meeting the requirements were selected from the bone and soft tissue ward of our hospital. Twenty subjects were randomly divided into experimental group and control group. The experimental group underwent psychological evaluation, drawing analysis and psychotherapy intervention before and after chemotherapy and surgery, while the control group only underwent psychological evaluation without drawing analysis and psychotherapy intervention. This experiment was designed to evaluate the change of psychological state of children after intervention. To verify whether the intervention has improved the psychological and cognitive aspects of the children.

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Conditions studied

  • Bone Tumors

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In context

Bone Neoplasms

330 studies on the registry are indexed under Bone Neoplasms; 82 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 40 is below the median of 50 across 224 interventional studies indexed under Bone Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Henan Cancer Hospital is the lead sponsor of 234 studies on the registry; 130 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
7 Years to 16 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Ages 7-16
  2. No gender limitation
  3. Pathologically confirmed patients with osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma
  4. Have painting ability

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Those who do not cooperate
  2. Family members or patients reject this treatment technique
  3. The patient has severe intellectual disability;
  4. The patient's condition is in critical stage or bone marrow suppression stage or complicated with serious complications.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
40 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Analysis of painting

    Pathologically confirmed children with malignant bone tumors, painting therapists to explain the requirements and purpose of painting. After the patient completes the painting, the therapist makes a targeted and individualized analysis and provides psychological counseling by reflecting the patient's psychological state through painting.

    Other: Painting therapy and psychoanalysis

  • Experimental
    Psychological treatment

    After the patient completes the painting, the therapist makes a targeted and individualized analysis and provides psychological counseling by reflecting the patient's psychological state through painting.

    Other: Painting therapy and psychoanalysis

Interventions

  • OtherPainting therapy and psychoanalysis

    Pathologically confirmed children with malignant bone tumors, painting therapists to explain the requirements and purpose of painting. After the patient completes the painting, the therapist makes a targeted and individualized analysis and provides psychological counseling by reflecting the patient's psychological state through painting.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Psychological distress thermometer

    The significance of psychological distress is identified according to the score

    Time frame: Up to approximately 2months

  2. Anxiety Screening Form for Children (SCARED)

    It consists of 41 items and 5 factors (somatization/panic, generalized anxiety, dissociative anxiety, social phobia and school phobia). The scale is divided into 3 levels (0 points: none; 1 mark: Sometimes. 2 marks: quite often. SCARED score ≥23 is positive, that is, the presence of anxiety.

    Time frame: Up to approximately 2months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Department of Bone and Soft Tissue ,Henan Cancer Hospital
    Zhengzhou, Henan 450008, China
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 29, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05475938
Responsible party
Liuxin (Principal Investigator, Henan Cancer Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jul 27, 2022
Start date
Oct 20, 2021
Primary completion
May 5, 2022
Completion
May 5, 2022
Last update
Jul 29, 2022

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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