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

Effects of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Visits and Older Community Dwellers With a Precarious State: An Experimental Study

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Old Age; Well Aging; Social Isolation; Health Impairment
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Guided tour at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 41
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Canada
  • Quebec
    • Montréal, Quebec, Canada, H3T 1E2
      • Jewish General Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 65 years and older (Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

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).

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Intervention; The 41 participants will attend the guided tours at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.	Other: 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

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Precarious social conditions	It will be used a questionnaire called: Evaluation of Health Precariousness and Inequalities in Health Examination Centers(EPICE). This questionnaire has 11 questions that summarize 90% a precarious state. The answer to each question is assigned a coefficient, the sum of the 11 answers gives the EPICES score. The score is continuous and ranges from 0 (no precarious social conditions) to 100 (maximum level of precarious conditions).The threshold of 30 defined a precarious state.	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Well-being	It will be used a questionnaire called: Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale questionnaire (WEMWBS).The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale questionnaire is a validated questionnaire composed by 14 positively worded item scale with five response categories. It covers most aspects of positive mental health (positive thoughts and feelings).	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Jewish General Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Olivier Beauchet, MD, Jewish General Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 23, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 23, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 23, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): May 24, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 23, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 22, 2024
• Last Verified: July 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2020-1789

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No