A-Health RCT: Effects of Participatory Art-based Activity on Health of Older Community Dwellers

NCT03679715 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2019-1493
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 235
• Locations: 2 countries
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

The overall objective of the study is to examine the effects of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) participatory art-based activity on wellbeing, quality of life and health condition in older community dwellers. Aging is often associated with worsening health and withdrawal from social activities, both increasing the risk of a poor quality of life. It has been reported that the practice of art, especially participatory art-based activity enhances wellbeing, quality of life and health condition of patients and older adults. Since October 2015, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA; Quebec, Canada) has successfully initiated a participatory art-based activity known as "Les Beaux-Jeudis" for older community dwellers living in Montreal. Recently, the investigator demonstrated that the MMFA participatory art-based activity improved wellbeing, quality of life and health condition of Montreal older community dwellers using a pre-post single arm, prospective and longitudinal design: it was not a randomized controlled trial (RCT) which is the gold standard to examine the effects of an intervention.

Conditions

Social Interaction; Quality of Life; Health, Subjective

Keywords

Community-dwellers; older adults; museum; art

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Health condition assessed by self-administered questionnaire (SAQ)

  self-administered questionnaire (SAQ), score between 0 and 18, a higher score means a higher frailty

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Ability to use a computer assessed by Computer proficiency questionnaire self-questionnaire (CPQ)

  1 day

• Well-being assessed by Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale self-questionnaire

  3 months

• Quality of life of participants assessed by EuroQol-5D self-questionnaire

  3 months

• Compliance assessed counting the number of workshops completed during the 3-month period of intervention.

  3 months

• Satisfaction concerning the project assessed by self-questionnaire

  1 day

Study Arms (2)

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

The participants in the Intervention group will be participants of the museum participatory art-based activity.

Other: participatory art-based activity

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

The Control arm will be composed of older community dwellers matched on age and sex compared to the Intervention group but who will not be participants at the museum participatory art-based activity.

Interventions

participatory art-based activity OTHER

The intervention is a participatory art-based activity which consists in making art in group, involving the participants directly in the creative process, allowing them to become co-authors of the work. In Montreal, Canada, participants will meet once per week for a 2h workshop from 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM at the MMFA in a dedicated room during a three month-period defining "a session". Two successive sessions will be setup; a winter and a spring sessions. Each session will be composed of 12 consecutive workshops. In Tokyo, Japan, participants will meet once per week for a 2h workshop at the Tokyo Fuji Museum in a dedicated room during a three month-period defining "a session". The session will be composed of 12 consecutive workshops.

Intervention group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Being 65 years and over
• Having an Internet access with an electronic device (i.e.; laptop, computer, smartphone, tablet) at the participant's place of living as the repetitive assessments for this study will be performed on the web platform of the Centre of Excellence on Longevity of McGill University
• Understanding and writing the language of the recruitment centre (i.e., French or English or Japanese)
• Life expectancy estimated over 3 months as the duration of the follow-up is 3 months

You may not qualify if:

• concomitant participation to another clinical trial,
• having participated to a participatory art-based activity of the museums,
• not speaking the language of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Jewish General Hospital: lead

Study Sites (2)

Jewish General Hospital

Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada

Location

Arts Alive

Tokyo, Japan

Location

Related Publications (4)

• Cami M, Planta O, Matskiv J, Plonka A, Gros A, Beauchet O. Museum-based art activities to stay young at heart? Results of a randomized controlled trial. Front Med (Lausanne). 2024 Jan 5;10:1184040. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1184040. eCollection 2023.

  PMID: 38249982 DERIVED

• Hayashi Y, Matskiv J, Galery K, Beauchet O. Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trial. Front Med (Lausanne). 2023 Jul 6;10:1188780. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1188780. eCollection 2023.

  PMID: 37484855 DERIVED

• Beauchet O, Cooper-Brown LA, Hayashi Y, Deveault M, Launay CP. Improving the mental and physical health of older community-dwellers with a museum participatory art-based activity: results of a multicentre randomized controlled trial. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2022 Jul;34(7):1645-1654. doi: 10.1007/s40520-022-02139-3. Epub 2022 May 17.

  PMID: 35578103 DERIVED

• Beauchet O, Cooper-Brown L, Hayashi Y, Galery K, Vilcocq C, Bastien T. Effects of "Thursdays at the Museum" at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on the mental and physical health of older community dwellers: the art-health randomized clinical trial protocol. Trials. 2020 Aug 12;21(1):709. doi: 10.1186/s13063-020-04625-3.

  PMID: 32787893 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Olivier Beauchet, MD

  Jewish General Hospital

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Model Details: The design is a unicentre (Jewish General Hospital; Montreal, Quebec, Canada), clinical, randomized, controlled, single blinded (i.e.; investigators), superiority trial, with two parallel arms (Intervention and Control groups), comparative (comparison between Intervention and Control groups) and analyzed with the intention-to-treat.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 18, 2018
• First Posted: September 20, 2018
• Study Start: January 5, 2019
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2019
• Study Completion: December 1, 2020
• Last Updated: February 9, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1); JP (1)