Breast Cancer
Conditions
Brief summary
Art Therapy is a health profession in which art making is utilized as a means of expression and communication within a therapeutic and supportive relationship \[1\]. Art therapy has been shown to reduce psychological (anxiety, negative mood) and physical (pain, fatigue) symptoms which accompany many breast cancer patients and survivors \[2-7\]. Qualitative studies provide an initial understanding of the mechanisms through which art therapy facilitates symptom reduction \[8\]. Breast cancer patients have reported that art therapy provided them with access to emotional material otherwise inaccessible \[9\]. The goal of this study is to examine the effect of art making within a therapeutic framework on emotional awareness and acceptance.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALGroup art therapy
Participants will engage in an art therapy group tailored at emotion expression related to the experience of breast cancer survivorship.
BEHAVIORALControl
Participants will receive Psychoeducational material in the form of a lecture and will engage in the coloring of mandalas.
Sponsors
Rabin Medical Center
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Adult women (over age 18), breast cancer survivors without evidence of active illness, hebrew speaking and receiving preventative hormonal therapy for at least 6 months (steady state), receiving care at the survivor's clinic of Davidoff Medical Center
Exclusion criteria
A psychiatric diagnosis requiring medication, functional difficulties that affect the ability to handle art supplies, non-hebrew speaking, unwilling to answer the research questionnaires
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Quality of Life: The FACT-B (Hahn et al, 2015) | Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks) | 36 item scale |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Acceptance of Emotion Scale (AE; Weihs et al, 2008) | Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks) | 13 item scale |
| Emotional Approach Coping scales (Stanton et al., 2000) | Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks) | 36 item scale |
| The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)(Carlson & Brown, 2005). | Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks) | 15 item scale |
| The levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS; Lane et al, 1990) | Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks) | 20 item scale |
| The Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) (Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams, & Löwe, 2006) | Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks) | 7 item scale |
| The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial (BCPT) Symptom Scales (Stanton et al., 2005) | Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks) | 23 item scale |
| Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) (Cohen, 1997) | Change from study start to end of intervention (8 weeks) | 20 item scale |
Countries
Israel
Contacts
Primary ContactJohanna Czamanski-Cohen, PhD
Outcome results
None listed