Integrating Lonely Elderly Patients in Workshops in a Cartoon Museum: An Efficacy Study

NCT02047435 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: Storm-P-2014
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 50
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Social relationships are important to people and it affects their quality of life, morbidity and mortality. This is a randomised controlled trial studying the effect of including older people with impaired social relationships and a perception of loneliness at workshops, at The Storm P. Museum - a museum about the well known Danish cartoonist Robert Storm Petersen. The hypothesis is, that by including older lonely people with a impaired social participation in these workshops, they will increase the participants health related quality of life. The investigators also hypothesis, that the intervention will improve the participants perception of loneliness, social participation and physical function. The intervention consist of a series of workshops at the Storm P. Museum. At these workshops the participants will create memory material for nursing home residents with dementia. The museum staff will facilitate a process of storytelling, using events, significant stories and artistic works by Storm P. and encourage the participants, by means of the "narrative interview" method to share similar stories from their life.

Conditions

Quality of Life; Social Isolation; Loneliness

Keywords

Social participation; Loneliness; General practice; Cultural institutions

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Difference from baseline in summary Index of EuroQol -5D

  Health related quality of life measured by EuroQol -5D

  Baseline, 9 months and 18 months

Secondary Outcomes (7)

• Score of MMSE test

  Baseline, 9 months, 18 months

• Score of GDS-15 items

  baseline, 9 months and 18 months

• "Timed up and go" test

  Baseline, 9 months and 18 months

• Consultation at general practice and hospital admission

  Baseline, 9 months and 18 months

• Score on Mobility-Tiredness scale

  Baseline, 9 months and 18 months

Other Outcomes (3)

• All cause mortality

  36 month

• Permanent nursing home placement

  36 month

• Health economic analysis

  36 month

Study Arms (2)

Information, event and workshops at a cartoon museum

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: Information, event and workshops at a cartoon museum

Information and event at a cartoon museum

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Behavioral: Information and event at a cartoon museum

Interventions

Information, event and workshops at a cartoon museum BEHAVIORAL

1. An event at the Storm P. Museum consisting of: * A guided tour at the museum * A representative from the municipal DaneAge Association will tell about the municipality's activities for the elderly. * The museum serves a refreshment and offer participants a season pass to the museum. And 2. Workshops at The Storm P. museum, for up to 12 months with approximately two workshops a months. In collaboration with the museum the participants create memory material for nursing home resident with dementia. The workshop will use narrative as a method to give participants a mutual relationship that is perceived as meaningful and rewarding for each participant and in the dialogues a mutual understanding is created. The museum staff facilitates the process of storytelling using events, significant stories and artistic works by Storm P., to encourage the participants, via the method known as "narrative interview", to share similar stories from their life.

Information, event and workshops at a cartoon museum

Information and event at a cartoon museum BEHAVIORAL

1\. An event at the Storm P. Museum consisting of: * A guided tour at the museum * A representative from the municipal DaneAge Association will tell about the municipality's activities for the elderly. * The museum serves a refreshment and offer participants a season pass to the museum.

Information and event at a cartoon museum

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Age: 65 years or older, Consultation at the general practice during the project period, Impaired social participation and often/occasionally perceive loneliness, Provided written informed consent

You may not qualify if:

• Do not talk or understand Danish, Terminal ill, Physically not able to participate, Low score on cognitive test (OMC test)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen: lead
• The Storm P. Museum: collaborator
• University College Absalon: collaborator
• EGV Foundation: collaborator
• Danish Agency for Culture: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Research Unit of General Practice Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Social Isolation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Social Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Frans B Waldorff, PhD

  Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Tina D Due, PhD student

  Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Frans B Waldorff, PhD

CONTACT

+ 45 35327129; fransw@sund.ku.dk

Tina D Due, PhD student

CONTACT

+ 45 35327167; tina.due@sund.ku.dk

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PhD

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 24, 2014
• First Posted: January 28, 2014
• Study Start: February 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2015
• Last Updated: May 23, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-01

Locations

DK (1)