NCT07015866Not yet recruiting
Creative Arts Therapy on Body Image, Self-esteem, Anxiety and Depression in Post-Treatment Prostate Cancer Patients
Effects of Creative Arts Therapy on Body Image, Self-esteem, Anxiety and Depression in Men With Prostate Cancer After Active Treatment: A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Jun 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical study is to assess the feasibility of implementing a creative arts therapy intervention of drawing and painting in Hong Kong prostate cancer patients and preliminarily examine the effects of this intervention on prostate cancer patients' health outcomes via a two-armed randomized controlled trial. The two arms will be (i) the creative arts therapy intervention group and (ii) a active control group. Participants will join five sessions. Sessions will start with a 10-15-minute rapport-building discussion and continue with a 60-minute intervention. Session themes are as follows: 'bridge drawing', 'analogue drawing', 'life-sized body outline', a 'free session' to allow patients to express their feelings, and a final review with the art therapist in which all sessions will be brought to a conclusion. Each session will follow a three-step process of psychodynamic model to ensure the optimal effect of the intervention. The interventions will be held at private room at hospital.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 72 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 23 May 2025
- Start date
- 30 Jul 2025
- Primary completion date
- 30 Apr 2027
- Lead sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Diseases
- Prostate cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07015866
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 72
- From 30 Jul 2025 to the primary completion date, 30 Apr 2027
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- are undergoing active therapy;
- have participated in other art therapy interventions;
Other illness
- Adult participants diagnosed with a mixed type of terminal cancer;
- have significant comorbidities such as cerebrovascular accident, severe depression, or dementia, as determined by standardized screening tools a score of 20-27 on the Patient Health Questionnaire and score 25 or less on the Mini-Mental State Examination.
Other
- have physical issues preventing them from holding a pen;
- have a mental status and/or communication problem that might compromise their capacity to give informed consent;
Who the study is looking for
- Adult participants diagnosed with localised prostate cancer, regardless of the stage and age 18 years or older;
- are not currently receiving active therapy, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgical treatment, by the time of the study or completed treatment more than one year ago and are not on any active treatment;
- were being followed up by the urology team or Department of Surgery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong;
- are willing to participate in the study;
- are able to read Chinese and communicate in Cantonese;
- are physically able to attend and complete art therapy sessions;
- do not have significant comorbidities, including cerebrovascular accident, severe depression, or dementia that could affect their ability to participate in the study;
- signed an informed consent form.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Male · Accepts healthy volunteers
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