About this trial
This study will be conducted in a randomized controlled experimental design to examine The effect of art-based intervention on fatigue, anxiety, perception of nurse presence, and quality of life in patients with hematological cancer. The study will be conducted with 52 patients (26 intervention, 26 control groups) treated in the Hematology department of a training and research hospital between May 2025 and October 2026. Art-based intervention will be applied to the intervention group for 2 week (3 sessions per week), No application will be made to the control group. The data collection tools in the study are the Patient Identifier Information Form, Cancer Fatigue Scale, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General Scale (FACT-G), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Nurse Presence Scale (PONS).
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Being between 18 and 65 years of age
Speaking and understanding Turkish
Being literate
Having a diagnosis of hematological cancer,
Disqualifiers
Having vision loss and hearing loss,
Having an ECOG score of 3 or 4
Patients who wanted to leave the study
Failure to attend at least two sessions of art therapy.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- art-based intervention