Art Therapy in Palliative Care: Study of Identification and Understanding of the Mechanisms of Change in the Patient
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interventional
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Brief Summary
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.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for not_applicable
Started Oct 2016
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
1 active site
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
May 30, 2016
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
June 15, 2016
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
October 20, 2016
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
June 30, 2020
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
December 31, 2020
CompletedMarch 24, 2022
March 1, 2022
3.7 years
May 30, 2016
March 23, 2022
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
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.
After the making of a minimum of 5 art pieces, an average of 2 weeks
Secondary Outcomes (1)
Art therapy process from the art therapist perspective.
Every day of art therapy session, with an average of 2 sessions a week, over a period of 2 years.
Study Arms (1)
art therapy
EXPERIMENTALIndividual 30-60 minutes art therapy sessions, twice a week, offering visual arts materials.
Interventions
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.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- advanced-cancer adult inpatients of the Palliative Care Unit
- informed consent
You may not qualify if:
- altered cognitive function (Mini-Mental Test \< 24)
- physical decline (palliative care team's criteria) that impedes the art therapy process
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Hospital Sant Pau
Barcelona, 08025, Spain
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Interventions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Antonio Pascual, MD
Palliative Care Unit, Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NA
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- SUPPORTIVE CARE
- Intervention Model
- SINGLE GROUP
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
May 30, 2016
First Posted
June 15, 2016
Study Start
October 20, 2016
Primary Completion
June 30, 2020
Study Completion
December 31, 2020
Last Updated
March 24, 2022
Record last verified: 2022-03
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share