A Digital Art Activity to Enhance Self-Disclosure and the Detection of Psycho-social Distress in Adult Cancer Patients

Summary

To look at how a digital art activity may help cancer patients improve their ability to express their distress, symptoms, and lived experience.

Detailed 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 Criteria

Interventions