Overview
To look at how a digital art activity may help cancer patients improve their ability to express their distress, symptoms, and lived experience.
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.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age equal or greater than 18 years
- Patients who are admitted in the hospital and have received a cancer diagnosis within six months to one year of the study.
- Suffering from colorectal cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer or lung cancer and receiving active treatment for their cancer.
- Voluntary written consent.
- Fluent in English or Spanish.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not being able to use a digital tablet
- Being speech impaired or vision impaired
- Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to read or consent for the study
- Pregnant women