Effects of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Visits and Older Community Dwellers With a Precarious State

NCT ID: NCT03962985

Last Updated: 2024-07-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 41 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-07-23
• Study Completion Date: 2024-07-01

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the effects of MMFA visits on psychological, health, social conditions and personal interactions in older community dwellers with a precarious state and to determine whether these effects may change precarity.

Detailed Description

Precarity is a vulnerable state exposing individuals to adverse health, psychological social events. Older adults are exposed to precarity, especially those who were the old generation of immigrants in Canada. Art-based activities have also been proposed to community dwellers and have shown positive effects on health outcomes and are determinants for well-being with aging. The effects of participatory art-based activities on precarity in older adults have never been examined. Recently, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) developed a new participatory art-based activity which is a 3 month-period of weekly museum visits for precarious populations.

Conditions

Well Aging; Health Impairment; Social Isolation; Old Age

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention

The 41 participants will attend the guided tours at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Group Type: OTHER

Guided tour at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Intervention Type: OTHER

• The duration of the participation -3 months
• The duration of the guided tour-45 minutes, each week
• All participants will be asked to fill out some specific online questionnaires during their participations in the study

Interventions

Guided tour at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

• The duration of the participation -3 months
• The duration of the guided tour-45 minutes, each week
• All participants will be asked to fill out some specific online questionnaires during their participations in the study

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Being 65 years and over;
• Precarious condition defined with a score ≥30 (/100)
• Having an Internet access with an electronic device (i.e.; laptop, computer, smartphone, tablet) 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 different languages of the recruitment centre (i.e., French, English, Chinese.);
• Severe frail condition determined with the Centre of Excellence self-administered questionnaire (CESAM)
• Living in Montreal

Exclusion Criteria

• A concomitant participation to another clinical trial;
• Participation in another art-based activity;
• Palliative care;
• Living in residence;
• Having a moderate to severe mobility impairment (i.e. using a walker, a wheelchair or being unable to walk alone 10m).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Jewish General Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Olivier Beauchet

MD, Professor of Geriatrics

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Olivier Beauchet, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Jewish General Hospital

Locations

Jewish General Hospital

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Countries

Canada

Other Identifiers

2020-1789

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id