Art Therapy to Promote Wellbeing and Self-care in Resident Physicians.

NCT ID: NCT05654376

Last Updated: 2023-03-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 43 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-12-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-06-30

Brief Summary

This study evaluates if an art therapy intervention could lower resident physician's work-related stress and if it could promote their self-care.

Detailed Description

The objective of this study is to determine if an art therapy intervention could promote the well-being of resident physicians of an university tertiary hospital, as specialized physicians trainees exposed to the risk of burnout.

Using a cycle of 6 bimonthly sessions of group art therapy, the intervention stimulates the creative activity of the participants through various art materials and techniques. Next, they are invited to share their reflexions about the artworks produced, with the group and in presence of the art therapist.

The study mainly evaluates the work-related stress and the self-care grade of the participants, before the intervention, just after it and after a follow-up period.

Conditions

Work-Related Stress

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Group art therapy

Cycle of 6 2-hours bimonthly group art therapy sessions.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Art therapy

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participant's creativity is stimulated by visual arts materials and various art therapy techniques, in relation to 6 topics: self-care, stress management, flourishing caregiving, challenging caregiving, loss and grief, and sense of professional meaning.

The strategy consists of stimulating an observant and symbolic gaze, facilitating visual expression, promoting communication about what it has been expressed, and gather learning from the multidimensional impact of the creative art process (sensations, emotions, cognitions and spiritual experiences).

Interventions

Art therapy

Participant's creativity is stimulated by visual arts materials and various art therapy techniques, in relation to 6 topics: self-care, stress management, flourishing caregiving, challenging caregiving, loss and grief, and sense of professional meaning.

The strategy consists of stimulating an observant and symbolic gaze, facilitating visual expression, promoting communication about what it has been expressed, and gather learning from the multidimensional impact of the creative art process (sensations, emotions, cognitions and spiritual experiences).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• belonging to the resident physicians collective of the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital.

Exclusion Criteria

• being with a diagnostic of major depression
• receiving psychotherapy o similar

• Minimum Eligible Age: 23 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Antonio Pascual López, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital, Palliative Care Unit Director.

Locations

Hospital Sant Pau

Barcelona, , Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

IIBSP-ART-2022-21

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id