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A Digital Art Activity to Enhance Self-Disclosure and the Detection of Psycho-social Distress in Adult Cancer Patients

NCT ID: NCT06127121Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterLast updated: 2026-05-20

Summary

To look at how a digital art activity may help cancer patients improve their ability to express their distress, symptoms, and lived experience.

Detailed description

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.

Arms & interventions

  • BehavioralDigital Art Activity

    * 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

Outcome measures

Primary

  • The 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.

Eligibility criteria

Sex: AllAge: 18 Years and olderHealthy volunteers: No
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age equal or greater than 18 years 2. Patients who are admitted in the hospital and have received a cancer diagnosis. 3. Suffering from solid cancer or hematological malignancy and receiving active treatment for their cancer. 4. Voluntary written consent. 5. Fluent in English or Spanish. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Not being able to use a digital tablet 2. Being speech impaired or vision impaired 3. Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to read or consent for the study 4. Pregnant women

Study locations (1)

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, 77030

Recruiting
Carlos Roldan, MD · Contact
713-563-7402croldan@mdanderson.org
Carlos Roldan, MD · Principal Investigator
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