Art Museum Program for Seniors With Cognitive Disorders and Care-partners

NCT04696549 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: IRB00267702
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 6
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

As the population ages, there is increasing interest in developing innovative approaches to promote and sustain mental and emotional well-being. Recent studies have linked engagement with the arts with supporting cognitive functioning, promoting empathy and greater sense of life purpose. The need to develop alternative approaches to sustain emotional well-being is especially acute for the nearly 6 million older Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease. There is a need for quality activities that can be done virtually for homebound individuals with cognitive disorders and the individuals' family care-partners. The investigators intend to institute a 3-session virtual art museum pilot program for seniors with cognitive disorders and care-partners using the Visual Thinking Strategies approach. The investigators hypothesize that participation in a virtual guided visual arts experience will enhance emotional well-being and self-esteem for both seniors with cognitive impairment and the seniors' care-partners.

Conditions

Dementia

Keywords

dementia; caregiving; self-esteem

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change in self-esteem as assessed by the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

  Impact of participation in a virtual art museum program on both older adults with cognitive disorders and their care-partners on survey measure of self-esteem. The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale is a 10-item self-report scale. Each item response is scored on a 4-point Likert Scale where 1 = Strongly agree and 4= Strongly disagree. Higher scores indicate higher self-esteem, and lower scores indicate lower self-esteem.

  At first session and third session, up to 3 months

• Change in self-report mood as assessed by the Smiley Face Mood Rating Scale

  Impact of participation in a virtual art museum program on both older adults with cognitive disorders and their care-partners on self-report measure of mood. Smiley Face Mood Rating Scale- A pictorial self-report Likert scale with 5 smiley faces ranging from very unhappy (scored as 1), to very happy (scored as 5). Higher scores indicate a more positive mood and lower scores indicate a more negative mood.

  Before and immediately after each visual art session, up to 3 months

Secondary Outcomes (6)

• to get feedback from family care-partners about their experience in participating in a virtual art museum program regarding satisfaction with a virtual program of this nature

  up to 48 hours after first visual art session

• to get feedback from family care-partners about their experience in participating in a virtual art museum program regarding acceptability and satisfaction with a virtual program of this nature

  up to 48 hours after second visual art session

• to get feedback from family care-partners about their experience in participating in a virtual art museum program regarding acceptability and satisfaction with a virtual program of this nature

  up to 48 hours after third visual art session

• to get feedback from individuals with cognitive disorders about their experience in participating in a virtual art museum program regarding acceptability and satisfaction with a virtual program of this nature

  up to 48 hours after first visual art session

• to get feedback from individuals with cognitive disorders about their experience in participating in a virtual art museum program regarding acceptability and satisfaction with a virtual program of this nature

  up to 48 hours after second visual art session

Study Arms (1)

virtual visual art experience for individuals with dementia and their family care-partners

EXPERIMENTAL

Individuals with dementia and their family care-partners will participate in three monthly one-hour virtual art sessions in which the facilitator uses Visual Thinking Strategies technique to facilitate participants' viewing and discussion about virtual art images.

Behavioral: Virtual visual art experience guided by Visual Thinking Strategies

Interventions

Virtual visual art experience guided by Visual Thinking Strategies BEHAVIORAL

All study dyads (where study dyad consists of a participant with dementia and his/her care-partner) will participate in 3 scheduled virtual visual art sessions via Zoom. Each session will last about an hour and will include a guided discussion of pre-selected visual art using the Visual Thinking Strategies approach. It is anticipated that two pieces of art will be shown during each art session. The three sessions will be scheduled one month apart.

virtual visual art experience for individuals with dementia and their family care-partners

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 30 Years - 100 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Club Memory member with cognitive disorder and family care-partner. This will constitute a study dyad.
• Early to moderate cognitive impairment, as evidenced by Clinical Dementia Rating scale of 0.5-2.0. The Clinical Dementia Rating scale is a clinical rating scale used for dementia staging based on 6 domains of functioning that will be performed by Andrea Nelson, Registered Nurse, and is part of normal dementia care in the Johns Hopkins Bayview Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center. A rating of 0=normal, 0.5= mild cognitive impairment, 1.0=mild dementia, 2.0=moderate dementia, 3.0=severe dementia.
• Care-partner access to laptop or iPad and comfort with using Zoom technology
• Agreement by individual with cognitive disorder and care-partner to participate in all 3 Visual Thinking visual art sessions
• Agreement by individual with cognitive disorder and care-partner to participate in the study and complete questionnaires before and after each session

You may not qualify if:

• Non-English speaker
• Clinical Dementia Rating higher than 2.0 for individual with cognitive impairment
• Inability to use a laptop or iPad for Zoom sessions

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Johns Hopkins University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland, 21287, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Dementia

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Neurocognitive Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Susan W Lehmann, MD

  Johns Hopkins University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 4, 2021
• First Posted: January 6, 2021
• Study Start: July 16, 2021
• Primary Completion: August 6, 2021
• Study Completion: November 1, 2021
• Last Updated: November 11, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)