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Patients will be asked to complete the standardized QLQ-C30/BN20 questionnaires. Following completion of the questionnaires, a trained pet therapy dog will be brought to the patients for approximately 10 minutes. After approximately 10 minutes, the dog will be removed and the patients will be asked to re-complete the standardized QLQ-C30/BN20 questionnaires. Patients will be photographed and videographed during this time.

Finally, patients will be asked to talk about how their perspectives on life have changed with their diagnosis. These responses will be captured for use in the art exhibit created from images collected during the study.

Pet Therapy

Mahua Dey, MD

Stefan Petranek

The goal of this study is to explore whether facial expression changes in visual portraits correlate with Quality of Life (QOL) questionnaire responses before and after pet therapy sessions and to compare scores of QOL questionnaires before and after pet therapy.

Through this pilot study, the investigators propose to create new intersections between video art and clinical care by photographing and videotaping patients with brain tumors before, during and after pet therapy sessions. This exploratory scholarship has two equally compelling goals. First, the artistic component of the project aims to create compelling slow motion video portraits of patients' willing to share their experiences of what it is like to confront such a grave illness. The goal is to put a human face on disease and share the endurance of the human spirit through art. Second, the scientific component will assess the potential of using facial video portraits as a novel and innovative way to measure Quality of Life (QOL) in lieu of questionnaires in brain tumor patients. In addition, the project will evaluate the effects of pet therapy on the QOL of these patients.

Bridging the Gap: Using Video Art to Document the Human Face of Disease & Predict Quality of Life Assessments in Brain Tumor Patients

Will look to see if there is a correlation between facial expression changes in visual portraits with QOL questionnaire responses before and after pet therapy sessions

Will compare QOL questionnaire scores from before and after pet therapy sessions to see if there is a change after the pet therapy.

Indiana University

Associate Professor of Photography and Intermedia

Neoplasms, Second Primary

Before starting the study, the "Structured Patient Information Form," "Edmonton Symptom Diagnosis Scale," and "Oxford Happiness Scale Short Form" were applied to the patients. Then, the researcher gave the patients face-to-face, individual information about hand hygiene after contact with a live cat for approximately 15 minutes in the waiting room and offered them a "Live Cat Information Brochure." Patients were then asked to spend 20 minutes with a pet at home twice a week for 12 weeks. "Edmonton Symptom Diagnosis Scale" and "Oxford Happiness Scale Short Form" were applied to this group of patients three times: before, at the 6th week, and at the end of the 12th week of the study.

Before starting the study, the "Structured Patient Information Form," "Edmonton Symptom Diagnosis Scale," and "Oxford Happiness Scale Short Form" were applied to the patients. Then, the researcher gave the patients face-to-face information about the robotic cat "Silver" and its use for approximately 15 minutes in the waiting room and offered them a "Robotic Cat Information Brochure." In each pet therapy application, patients' hand hygiene and cleaning of the Robotic Cat was provided, the robot cat was given to the patients.

Before starting the study, the "Structured Patient Information Form", "Edmonton Symptom Diagnosis Scale", and "Oxford Happiness Scale Short Form" were applied to the patients. Treatment was given to this group of patients only after informing them about the study, and the patients were followed for only three months. "Edmonton Symptom Diagnosis Scale" and "Oxford Happiness Scale Short FormS" were applied to the patients three times: before, at the 6th week, and the end of the 12th week of the research.

The patients were allowed to spend time with an animal (cat/robotic cat) for 20 minutes twice a week for 12 weeks.

Pet therapy

It is known that animals are good for humans physiologically and psychologically. Therefore, in this study, the effects of live cat and robotic cat therapies on the symptoms and happiness levels of oncology patients after chemotherapy were examined.

Cancer is a disease that requires a long-term struggle with the psychosocial and economic burden it creates on the individual, family and society, bringing with it many health problems. Although chemotherapy treatment is the main treatment method for patients, it can cause some changes in the individual's appearance while treating cancer and many symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, alopecia, and constipation after treatment. At the same time, patients may feel tired, sleepy and depressed after treatment. However, cancer patients and their families experiencing some unknown diagnosis and treatment processes related to cancer also cause them to be unhappy as a result of experiencing some physical, social, emotional and spiritual problems during the treatment.

It is reported in the literature that pet therapy or animal-assisted treatments reduce disease-related symptoms and make patients happy. Pet therapy is an auxiliary non-pharmacological form of treatment that heals physiological and psychological diseases through interactions between animals and humans that meet certain criteria, and stimulates and activates the body mechanisms required for the development of the individual's health behaviors. In the literature, pet therapy studies with oncology patients are quite limited. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine the effects of live cat and robotic cat therapies on the symptoms and happiness levels experienced by oncology patients after chemotherapy.

The sample number of the research was calculated in the G\*Power 3.1.9.6 program. While α=0.05 was the error amount, 0.628 was the effect size, and 0.90 (90%) was the targeted test power, it was calculated as 36 patients for three groups (living cat group, robotic cat group, control group). Since there was no previous study on the subject, a study examining happiness levels in a different sample group was used as a reference. Considering situations such as wanting to leave the study or death during the research, each group was increased by 25%, and a total of 45 patients, 15 patients for each group, were included in the study.

Since the possibility of patients being affected by each other was minimal, the study was continued with only one of the live cat groups, the simulation cat group, and the control group. For example, only the live cat group and those who received chemotherapy treatment were studied before Monday afternoon.

The Effect of Live Cat and Simulation Cat Therapies on Oncology Patients

The Effect of Live Cat and Simulation Cat Therapies on Oncology Patients' Post-Chemotherapy Symptoms and Happiness Levels: A Randomized Controlled Study

The scale includes "pain, fatigue, nausea, sadness, anxiety, insomnia, loss of appetite, the feeling of well-being, shortness of breath and other problems (changes in the skin and nails, sores in the mouth, numbness in the hands)." Sadırlı and Ünsar added other problems to the scale. Therefore, the current version with 11 items was used in this study. The severity of each symptom ranges from "no symptoms" to "very severe," with increasing numerical intensity between 0 and 10.

"Edmonton Symptom Diagnostic Scale" were administered to the patients three times in total before the study (pretest), at the sixth week/middle (intermediate measurement), and the end of the 12th week/end of the survey (posttest).

In the Turkish adaptation, the scale has seven items and a 5-point Likert type. The scores obtained from the items on the scale vary from "1 point: I Completely Disagree" to "5 points: I Completely Agree", with the lowest being seven and the highest being 35 points.

"Oxford Happiness Scale Short Form" were administered to the patients three times in total before the study (pretest), at the sixth week/middle (intermediate measurement), and the end of the 12th week/end of the survey (posttest).

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization
Bridging the Gap: Using Video Art to Document the Human Face of Disease & Predict Quality of Life Assessments in Brain Tumor Patients	NCT02890940	Brain Tumors Quality of Life Animal Assisted...	Pet Therapy	18 Years -	Indiana University
Bridging the Gap: Using Video Art to Document the Human Face of Disease & Predict Quality of Life Assessments in Brain Tumor Patients	NCT02890940	Brain Tumors Quality of Life Animal Assisted...	Pet Therapy	18 Years -	Indiana University
The Effect of Live Cat and Simulation Cat Therapies on Oncology Patients	NCT06280612	Therapy-Associa... Cancer Patient Happiness Symptoms	Pet therapy	18 Years -	Karadeniz Technical University
Bridging the Gap: Using Video Art to Document the Human Face of Disease & Predict Quality of Life Assessments in Brain Tumor Patients	NCT02890940	Brain Tumors Quality of Life Animal Assisted...	Pet Therapy	18 Years -	Indiana University

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Every month we try and update this database with for pet therapy cancer trials from around the world to help patients and their families find trials that might be right for them. We offer this 100% free of charge and do not endorse any of the trials listed here, we hope it helps you or a loved one.

Every month we try and update this database with for pet therapy cancer trials from around the world to help patients and their families find trials that might be right for them.
We offer this 100% free of charge and do not endorse any of the trials listed here, we hope it helps you or a loved one.