A 3-month Cycle of Weekly Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Tours

NCT04298047 | Active Not Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 20201789
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 128
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Social isolation in older community-members living in urban areas and its possible reduction through a 3-month cycle of weekly museum tours.

Conditions

Social Interaction; Quality of Life; Health

Keywords

Community-dwellers; older adults; museum; art

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Social isolation

  The 11-item Duke Social Support Index (DSSI) comprises two subscales: social interaction (i.e., frequency of interactions) and subjective support (i.e., satisfaction with emotional support provided). DSSI score ranges from 11 to 33, increased score indicating higher levels of social insertion. The scores of the 11 items are combined and categorized as low-fair (score ≤26), high (score 27-29) and very high (score 30-33). We will use as primary outcome the mean score of 11-item DSSI and its distribution in three categories.

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (7)

• Frailty

  3 months

• Well-being

  3 months

• Quality of life using the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D)

  3 months

• Participants' socio-demographic characteristics

  3 months

• Interpersonal interactions

  3 months

Study Arms (2)

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

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

Interventions

participatory art-based activity OTHER

The intervention is a 3-month cycle of weekly guided tours carried out at the MMFA. Each visit will be performed with a group of 8 participants and a trained guide. They will meet at the museum once per week for a 45 min museum guided tour during a 3-month period. Each visit will be different and supervised by a museum guide. Regardless the topic of the visits, each visit will be standardized and separated in two consecutive phases: (1) Presentation of the objectives of the activity and (2) tour with a guide. Guided tours will target visual art (i.e., painting). They will be tailor-made and based on emotions and interactions in front of painting. The levels of information given to participants will regularly (i.e., each month) increase during the 3-month cycle of museum guided tours. The participants will be separated in 8 groups of 8 individuals per week. The same guide will manage each group of 8 participants during the 12 planned visits.

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)
• 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 MMFA,
• Not speaking the language of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Jewish General Hospital: lead

Study Sites (1)

Jewish General Hospital

Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada

Location

Study Officials

• Olivier Beauchet, MD

  McGill University

  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: MD, PhD, Professor of Geriatrics, Holder of the Dr. Joseph Kaufmann Chair in Geriatric Medicine Clinician Scientist, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine Director of Centre of Excellence on Longevity, RUISSS McGill, McGill University

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: March 4, 2020
• First Posted: March 6, 2020
• Study Start: June 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2023
• Study Completion: December 1, 2025
• Last Updated: February 23, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)