cancer.
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention group: Before starting the study, completed the questionnaire verbally. Then, the children who were in the intervention group participated in 6 group sessions of open wate
Intervention group: Before starting the study, completed the questionnaire verbally. Then, the children who were in the intervention group participated in 6 group sessions of open watercolor painting
control group: Before starting the study, completed the questionnaire verbally. All the provided care in the control group was the same as the intervention group with the difference that the painting
Sponsors
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Vice-Chancellor of Research, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifer
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
7 Years to 12 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: the age group of 7 to 12 years (due to the ability to paint and respond to the questionnaire) having one type of cancer being at least in the third stage of chemotherapy having the ability to paint and lack of physical and mental retardation lack of physical problems and anxiety disorders lack of use of psychotropic drugs or antidepressants.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: unwillingness of the children and their families to continue to cooperate, children’s lack of ability to cooperate while studying, absence from 2 or more sessions of paintings, facing acute stress such as divorce of parents, death of parents or siblings, and changing of living location. children’s lack of ability to cooperate while studying absence from 2 or more sessions of paintings facing acute stress such as divorce of parents, death of parents or siblings and changing of living location
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Fatigue. Timepoint: Before the intervention.after the intervention. Method of measurement: Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Multidimensional Fatigue Scale. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactZahra Tahmasebi
Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed