Feasibility of Delivering an Avatar Life-review Intervention to Support Patients With Active Cancer

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Conditions studied: Cancer

In brief

The objective of the study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of an integrated art and technology, storytelling, life review platform for patients with active cancer. The VoicingHan project is an avatar storytelling platform designed for patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative care at Virginia Commonwealth University's Massey Cancer Center. VoicingHan supports terminally ill patients by using oral storytelling as an artistic medium to facilitate patients' interactive performances. Movement-based, creative expression has been shown to reduce stress and depression. By projecting movement-based actions onto an avatar, this can serve as a tool to express emotional distress, address satisfaction with care, and view cancer in a different light.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03996642

Run by

Virginia Commonwealth University

People needed

11

Starts

2019-07-19

Expected to finish

2019-10-23

Last updated by the study team

2020-02-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants must be 18 years of age or older
• Patient participants must have metastatic or locally recurrent cancer
• Participants must be able to understand English
• Participants must be ambulatory
• Ability and willingness to sign a written informed consent document

You may not qualify if…

• Participants who cannot understand written or spoken English
• Any prisoner and/or other vulnerable persons as defined by NIH (45 CFR 46, Subpart B, C and D).

Where it is running

• Virginia Commonwealth University — Richmond, Virginia, United States

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