Study of the Impact of Art Therapy in Palliative Care on the Relationship Between Patients and Their Families (ATREL)

Negative symptoms in cancer in palliative care, such as pain, can lead to a withdrawal that can lead to a form of social exclusion. Maintaining pre-illness relationships is often difficult for the patient, especially since he is often not available to relationships.

Art therapy defined as the exploitation of artistic potential in a therapeutic and humanitarian aim can contribute to the reduction of symptoms, to adaptation and to well-being. A recent review shows that positive affective states and meaningful social connections are important factors contributing to more effective adaptation to pain. Study hypothesis is that art therapy could play on these two factors.

The objective of the qualitative study is to measure, using a questionnaire, the indirect impact of art therapy sessions on parents, during support and after death, from a relational and emotional point of view.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Healthy
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: satisfaction questionnaire after art therapy session

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 15

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Pierre-Bénite, France, 69495
    • Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Close to a patient who died more than 1 month old and who benefited from more than one art therapy session in the palliative care unit.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Any major person who has accompanied a patient to the palliative care unit of the Lyon-Sud hospital

• Man or woman ;
• 18 years old or older;
• Death of the accompanied patient> 1 month;
• Number of art therapy session of the accompanied patient > 1;
• Having agreed to participate in the study;
• Not subject to a legal protection measure.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Nobody without the physical or mental abilities to respond to the questionnaire ;
• No one reading or speaking French.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Family of patient	Other: satisfaction questionnaire after art therapy session; After the administration of art therapy sessions (>1) and the death of patients (> 1 month), the intervention consists in submitting to families of patients a satisfaction questionnaire intended to evaluate the impact of art therapy session and in particular about their relationships.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall satisfaction with art therapy	The primary endpoint is the item of overall satisfaction with art therapy session in 3 groups (VAS scale between 0 and 3, between 3 and 7 and between 7 and 10)	6 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Marilène FILBET, MD, Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 24, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): March 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 29, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 29, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): February 5, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 18, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 17, 2021
• Last Verified: June 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 69HCL17_0626

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No