Cultural Pathways to Develop Sustainable Health

NCT ID: NCT05635695

Last Updated: 2024-05-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 64 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-11-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-02-01

Brief Summary

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 includes the goal 3 "Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages". One of the essential axes is to promote primary prevention in order to avoid the emergence of diseases and the treatments use with a high environmental impact. Physical activity (PA) is a means of primary prevention known to be very effective in the fight against chronic diseases.

Despite the recommendations on PA, a high number of people are sedentary and in particular in older persons. The main barriers are accessibility and lack of motivation for traditional PA. The investigators believe that the development of cultural pathways could be an excellent way to improve people's health.

The objective of this study is to assess the effects of cultural pathways on the physical abilities, well-being and sustainable health knowledge of sedentary people over 50 years old. This intervention will be compared to a control group visiting a museum freely. The hypothesis is that cultural pathways including games induce enough steps to be considered an effective activity to fight sedentary lifestyle. The number of steps should be higher than the control group. Fatigue, stress and well-being should be improved after the visit as well as sustainable health knowledge.

All the tests will be carried out during the same day by experienced physiotherapists. Physical and well-being tests will be performed before and after the intervention or control. The number of steps taken during the cultural activity will be measured.

Conditions

Sedentary Behavior

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Free Museum visit

Free museum visit during 45 to 75 minutes

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Free Museum visit

Intervention Type: OTHER

People are tested when they arrive at the museum. Then, they freely visit the different rooms for 45 to 75 minutes. No instructions are given.

Cultural pathways App

Cultural pathways App during 45 to 75 minutes

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Cultural pathways App

Intervention Type: OTHER

Cultural pathways in the park of the museum will be proposed to people with a smartphone application that will give directions, cultural and sustainable health contents, points of interest with games and specific information about the pathways (distance, noise level, walkability, practical information). There will be two possible levels: contemplative or active.

Interventions

Free Museum visit

People are tested when they arrive at the museum. Then, they freely visit the different rooms for 45 to 75 minutes. No instructions are given.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Cultural pathways App

Cultural pathways in the park of the museum will be proposed to people with a smartphone application that will give directions, cultural and sustainable health contents, points of interest with games and specific information about the pathways (distance, noise level, walkability, practical information). There will be two possible levels: contemplative or active.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age > 50 years
• Sedentary condition (<150 minutes of physical activity per week)
• Medical stability
• Walking independently with or without assistance
• Ability to understand the instructions

Exclusion Criteria

• Refusal to participate;
• Person with other conditions affecting independent walking;
• Contraindications to prolonged standing;
• Concomitant pathologies that may interfere with the results;
• Inability to follow the study procedure (cognitive disorders, dementia, psychological disorders, language problems...).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 50 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

School of Health Sciences Geneva

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Anne-Violette Bruyneel

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Anne-Violette Bruyneel

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Geneva School of Health Sciences

Locations

Geneva School of Health Sciences

Geneva, , Switzerland

Countries

Switzerland

References

Harvey JA, Chastin SF, Skelton DA. Prevalence of sedentary behavior in older adults: a systematic review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2013 Dec 2;10(12):6645-61. doi: 10.3390/ijerph10126645.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 24317382 (View on PubMed)

Tudor-Locke C, Craig CL, Aoyagi Y, Bell RC, Croteau KA, De Bourdeaudhuij I, Ewald B, Gardner AW, Hatano Y, Lutes LD, Matsudo SM, Ramirez-Marrero FA, Rogers LQ, Rowe DA, Schmidt MD, Tully MA, Blair SN. How many steps/day are enough? For older adults and special populations. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2011 Jul 28;8:80. doi: 10.1186/1479-5868-8-80.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 21798044 (View on PubMed)

Camic PM, Chatterjee HJ. Museums and art galleries as partners for public health interventions. Perspect Public Health. 2013 Jan;133(1):66-71. doi: 10.1177/1757913912468523.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 23308010 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

APP-112187

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id