Comic Art Creation as Supportive Care in Cancer Patients and Caregivers

NCT ID: NCT03067766

Last Updated: 2019-05-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 8 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-08-24
• Study Completion Date: 2019-02-08

Brief Summary

This pilot clinical trial studies how well comic art creation works as supportive care in cancer patients and caregivers. Participating in a comic art creation workshop may help patients and their family members or friends share their medical experience through storytelling and drawings in a way that can, but does not have to, reflect the real world. It may also help improve emotional wellbeing and communication in cancer patients and caregivers.

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the feasibility of using a 10 week (Workshop A) or a 5 week (Workshops B-C) comic art creation workshops for supportive care.

II. To determine the feasibility of studying comic art creation workshops for supportive care.

III. To describe those factors affecting the ability or inability of participants to engage in the workshop.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To describe changes in emotional wellbeing and communication of patients and caretakers/family/friends.

TERTIARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Identify the methods that most engage supportive care patients and caretakers.

II. Identify the social and cultural interactions most impacted by comics creation.

III. To describe participant feedback regarding the intervention and study design.

OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 arms.

WORKSHOP A: Patients and a family member, caretaker, or friend participate in an artist-led comic art therapy workshop over 2 hours once a week for 10 weeks. Patients and participants receive a range of assignments that focus on creative art and experimentation with materials and storytelling in order to make a series of small handmade books that relate directly or indirectly to their experience with cancer. Patients undergo a qualitative interview over approximately 45 minutes and complete validated questionnaires within 4 weeks prior to the workshop and midway through the workshop.

WORKSHOPS B AND C: Patients participate in an artist-led comic art therapy workshop over 3 hours once a week for 5 weeks. Patients receive a range of assignments that focus on creative art and experimentation with materials and storytelling in order to make a series of small handmade books that relate directly or indirectly to their experience with cancer. Patients undergo a qualitative interview over approximately 45 minutes and complete validated questionnaires within 4 weeks prior to the workshop.

After completion of the study, patients are followed up at 1 and 6 weeks.

Conditions

Caregiver; Malignant Neoplasm

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Workshop A (10 weeks - comic art creation workshop)

Patients and a family member, caretaker, or friend participate in an artist-led comic art therapy workshop over 2 hours once a week for 10 weeks. Patients and participants receive a range of assignments that focus on creative art and experimentation with materials and storytelling in order to make a series of small handmade books that relate directly or indirectly to their experience with cancer. Patients undergo a qualitative interview over approximately 45 minutes and complete validated questionnaires within 4 weeks prior to the workshop and midway through the workshop.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Art Therapy

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Participate in a comic art creation workshop

Interview

Intervention Type: OTHER

Undergo qualitative interviews

Quality-of-Life Assessment

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Ancillary studies

Questionnaire Administration

Intervention Type: OTHER

Ancillary studies

Workshop B and C (5 weeks - comic art creation workshop)

Patients participate in an artist-led comic art therapy workshop over 3 hours once a week for 5 weeks. Patients receive a range of assignments that focus on creative art and experimentation with materials and storytelling in order to make a series of small handmade books that relate directly or indirectly to their experience with cancer. Patients undergo a qualitative interview over approximately 45 minutes and complete validated questionnaires within 4 weeks prior to the workshop.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Art Therapy

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Participate in a comic art creation workshop

Interview

Intervention Type: OTHER

Undergo qualitative interviews

Quality-of-Life Assessment

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Ancillary studies

Questionnaire Administration

Intervention Type: OTHER

Ancillary studies

Interventions

Art Therapy

Participate in a comic art creation workshop

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Interview

Undergo qualitative interviews

Intervention Type: OTHER

Quality-of-Life Assessment

Ancillary studies

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Questionnaire Administration

Ancillary studies

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

Quality of Life Assessment

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Documented written informed consent of the participant
• Workshop A (2017 - 10 weeks- City of Hope)

• Either one of the following:
• City of Hope (COH) cancer patient (all types and at any time point of their disease) OR
• Caretaker/friend family member of the cancer patient
• Workshops B and C (2018 - 5 weeks - City of Hope)

• Cancer patients (all types and at any time point in their disease)
• Note: documentation to confirm this eligibility criteria will not be requested; self-reporting as a cancer patient will be considered adequate
• Ability read and speak English
• Willingness and ability to complete the entire workshop, including the interviews and questionnaires (there is no predetermined qualification with regard to the ability to hold an artist tool; accommodations and creative solutions will be made to facilitate participation)

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

City of Hope Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Jaroslava Salman, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

City of Hope Medical Center

Locations

City of Hope Medical Center

Duarte, California, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

NCI-2017-00287

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

16251

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

16251

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id