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To the experimental group; Mandala practice will be done for 2 hours, once a week for 8 weeks.

No intervention will be applied to the control group

Art based mandala

Elif Yıldırım Ayaz, M.D.

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of mandala application on fatigue, quality of life, rumination and alexithymia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.

A randomized controlled study on the effect of mandala application on cancer related fatigue, quality of life, rumination and alexithymia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy has not been found in the literature.

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of mandala application on fatigue, quality of life, rumination and alexithymia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.

The Effect of the Art-based Mandala Intervention on the Quality of Life of Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy

Level of quality of life as assessed by the Quality of Life Scale for the Treatment and Research of Cancer (min:0, max:100,with higher values indicating a higher functioning in functional scales and an increased presence of symptoms in symptom scales)

level of fatigue assessed by the Piper Fatigue Scale (min:0, max, 100, higher values means higher fatigue)

level of alexithymia assessed by Toronto Alexythimia Scale (higher values means more alexithymic)

level of rumination assessed by ruminative thought scale (higher values means more ruminative thought)

Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Principal Investigator

Death

Frailty

Feeding and Eating Disorders of Childhood

The aim of this study is to evaluate tanatophobia and rumination in individuals over 65 years of age receiving cancer chemotherapy and to determine the related factors.

No studies were found in the literature evaluating the relationship between frailty and lack of social support with tanatophobia and rumination. The aim of this study is to evaluate tanatophobia and rumination in individuals over 65 years of age receiving cancer chemotherapy and to determine the related factors.

Evaluation of Rumination, Frailty and Tanatophobia in Cancer Patients Over 65 Years of Age

Evaluation of rumination in patients over 65 years of age receiving cancer chemotherapy

Evaluation of tanatophobia in patients over 65 years of age receiving cancer chemotherapy

Evaluation of fraility in patients over 65 years of age receiving cancer chemotherapy

Evaluation of lack of social support in patients over 65 years of age receiving cancer chemotherapy

It is planned to conduct the empowerment program online (zoom session). For this, to protect each individual's privacy, a quiet, bright and ventilated, spacious physical environment and technological elements such as computers, headphones, microphones and internet connection are needed. The empowerment program was planned as a total of 10 sessions, one session per week. In the program, goals and objectives have been established for each session. These aims and objectives will be shared with the participants before each session. The application time of each session is planned as an average of 90 minutes.

Empowerment program

Sinem Öcalan, Res. Asist.

Sinem Öcalan

This study aims to decrease cancer survivors' intrusive ruminative thoughts and cancer-related fatigue and increase their purposive ruminative thoughts and psychological resilience. In this context, an online (Zoom) 10-session empowerment program based on the literature will be implemented for cancer survivors.

From the time they were diagnosed with cancer, individuals struggle with ruminative thoughts about why they have this disease, whether they will get better during the treatment process, whether the disease will recur in the future, and cognitive, physical, and emotional fatigue, the cause of which cannot be fully explained. All these processes continue to negatively affect the lives of cancer survivors during the remission period. Studies show that when cancer survivors manage this stressful process well and learn effective coping methods, they can come out of it by developing their psychological resilience. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of an empowerment program to be applied to cancer survivors' ruminative thoughts, cancer-related fatigue, and psychological resilience.

The hypotheses of this research are:

H 1-1: There is a difference between ruminative thinking scores at the end of the empowerment program applied to individuals with cancer in remission and in the follow-up measurement compared to the pre-program and control groups.

H 1-2: There is a difference between cancer-related fatigue scores at the end of the empowerment program applied to individuals with cancer in remission and in the follow-up measurement compared to the pre-program and control groups.

H 1-3: There is a difference between psychological resilience scores at the end of the empowerment program applied to individuals with cancer in remission and in the follow-up measurement compared to the pre-program and control groups.

Permission will be taken from Hacettepe University Oncology Hospital for the research. However, due to the pandemic conditions, to protect the health of both researchers and participants, group studies were moved to the online platform and the sessions were planned as online (zoom sessions). The sample size of the study was calculated with the G-Power 3.1 program. Since a similar study could not be found in the literature, it was determined that the sample should consist of 56 people, 28 in the intervention group and 28 in the control group, by calculating with .80 power and .05 error level, based on the medium effect size for the .25 variance analysis suggested by Cohen. However, it is foreseen that it would be appropriate to reach 10% more people (Total 62) of the total number calculated considering that there may be a loss of participants during the process and to be participants in the 31 intervention and 31 control group.

Empowerment Program for Cancer Survivors

The Effect of an Empowerment Program on Ruminative Thoughts, Fatigue, and Psychological Resilience of Cancer Survivors

It was developed by Cann et al. (2011). The 20-item scale has subscales to evaluate two forms of rumination, "intrusive" and "deliberate". The first ten items measure intrusive rumination, and the second ten items measure deliberate rumination. Each item in the scale is in a 4-point Likert type and is scored as 0 = never, 3 = often. There is no total score in this scale, but subscale scores reveal rumination scores. Scores on each subscale range from 0 to 30. High scores obtained from each sub-dimension of the scale indicate the existence of a ruminative thought tendency towards the said dimension.

It was developed by Okayama et al. in 2003. Consisting of 15 items, the scale has a 5-point Likert type ranging from 'no' (1) to 'too much' (5). It consists of three sub-dimensions: physical (items 1,2,3,6,9,12,15), emotional (items 5,8,11,14), cognitive (items 4,7,10,13). . The range of scores to be taken from the scale is between 0 and 28 points for the physical subscale, and 0 to 16 points for the emotional and cognitive subscale. Total fatigue is the sum of these subscale scores and the maximum total score is 60. The higher the total score, the more severe the fatigue is considered.

It was developed by Connor and Davidson (2003). The 25-item scale is in a 5-point Likert structure as 'not at all true' (0) and 'always true' (4). The scale consists of 3 subscales: 'Perseverance and Personal Efficiency' (15 items), 'Resistance to Negativity' (6 items) and 'Tension to Spirituality' (3 items). The lowest and highest values vary between 0-100, and the higher score obtained from the scale indicates greater psychological resilience.

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization
The Effect of the Art-based Mandala Intervention on the Quality of Life of Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy	NCT05344820	Cancer Chemotherapy Ef... Fatigue Quality of Life Rumination Alexithymia	Art based manda...	18 Years -	Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Evaluation of Rumination, Frailty and Tanatophobia in Cancer Patients Over 65 Years of Age	NCT05350007	Cancer Death Rumination Frailty		65 Years -	Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Empowerment Program for Cancer Survivors	NCT05768984	Cancer Survivor...	Empowerment pro...	18 Years - 65 Years	Hacettepe University
The Effect of the Art-based Mandala Intervention on the Quality of Life of Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy	NCT05344820	Cancer Chemotherapy Ef... Fatigue Quality of Life Rumination Alexithymia	Art based manda...	18 Years -	Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Empowerment Program for Cancer Survivors	NCT05768984	Cancer Survivor...	Empowerment pro...	18 Years - 65 Years	Hacettepe University

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