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Effect of Group Led Creative Writing on Mood in Cancer Patients
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Creative Writing Workshop and Independent Writing - Control Group for Cancer Patients. Completed, enrolled 60 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The primary purpose of this study is to determine whether creative writing in newly diagnosed cancer patients and those with recent progression in their disease will have a positive impact on their mental health. Using a randomized controlled trial approach, emotion thermometers will be employed to evaluate participants' responses on a number of domains, such as anxiety, depression, despair, and anger along with a series of survey questions to monitor changes in depressive and anxiety symptoms. Open-ended survey questions will be used to capture how a creative writing intervention impacts participants' experience of their illness. Melissa Greene's Write from the Heart program focuses more on creative writing rather than cancer focused topics. Patients in the intervention arm will complete -one and a half hour group sessions every two weeks over the span of 3 months. Participants in the active control arm will be provided a book (i.e., Writing Down Bones by Natalie Goldberg) about creative writing and will be asked to do activities for 1.5 hrs every 2 weeks for a period of 3 months.
Study Details
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Interventions
This group will participate in a writing workshop in group sessions.
This group will receive a book for a self writing session.