Slow Art Plus: Developing and Piloting a Single Session Art Gallery-based Intervention for Mental Health Promotion Via a Mixed Method Waitlist Randomized Control Trial (RCT)
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Enrolling By Invitation
- Enrollment
- 200
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Utilizing a Participatory Action Research (PAR) paradigm, this 12-month study will adopt a mixed method Waitlist Randomized Control Trial (RCT) with a built-in acceptability and feasibility study to test the efficacy of Slow Art Plus in reducing stress and empowering self-care among 200 participants.
Detailed Description
The specific objectives are in four-folds: 1) To develop a standardized 90-minute single-session Slow Art Plus programme that integrates: (a) slow looking; (b) mindfulness meditation; (c) self-compassion activities; (d) reflective-creative expressions; and (e) dyadic sharing, to form a holistic mental health promotion intervention; 2) To assess the effectiveness of Slow Art Plus for reducing participants' perceived stress (primary outcomes); 3) To assess the effectiveness of Slow Art Plus for enhancing participants' self-awareness, self-care capacity, psychological resilience, and quality of life (secondary outcomes); and 4) To assess the feasibility and acceptability of the standardized Slow Art Plus protocol for large scale implementation in Singapore and greater Asia.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 21 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •individuals who can communicate in English and provide informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria
- •individuals who are suffering from depression or other major mental illness.
Arms & Interventions
Intervention
The first 10-minute of Slow Art Plus involves a brief psychoeducation on slow looking, mindfulness, and self-compassion practices. This is followed by a 10-minute participants self-introduction and sharing of one act of self-kindness; a 10-minute facilitator led mindfulness meditation on affectionate breathing to foster greater somatic and emotional clarity for slow-looking. This is followed by a set of 30-minute slow looking activity with 1 selected art-piece, including: (a) creating an Artwork Title with one sentence description, (b) imaging music that resonates with the viewers' emotional response to artwork, and (c) sketching a Response Art that facilitates a dialogue between the viewer and the art piece for perspective widening. A 10-minute dyadic sharing follows with a 5-minute large group sharing of joint collective experience. Artwork reveal and sharing of its self-care implications is offered. Finally, a closure self-compassion activity of Supportive Healing Touch.
Intervention: Slow Art Plus (Behavioral)
Control
Wait-list Control Arm who will receive the Slow Art Plus after the Experimental Arm completes the Intervention.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Time Frame: 1-Day Follow-UP
The PSS comprises 10-items rated on a 5-point Likert scale and clustered into 2 subscales of perceived helplessness (e.g., "In the past couple of days, how often have you felt nervous and stressed today"), and perceived self-efficacy (e.g., In the past couple of days, how often have you felt that things were going your way"). The PSS possesses strong internal validity, reliability, and cross-cultural applicability.
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Time Frame: Pre-Intervention
The PSS comprises 10-items rated on a 5-point Likert scale and clustered into 2 subscales of perceived helplessness (e.g., "In the past couple of days, how often have you felt nervous and stressed today"), and perceived self-efficacy (e.g., In the past couple of days, how often have you felt that things were going your way"). The PSS possesses strong internal validity, reliability, and cross-cultural applicability.
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Time Frame: Immediate Post Intervention
The PSS comprises 10-items rated on a 5-point Likert scale and clustered into 2 subscales of perceived helplessness (e.g., "In the past couple of days, how often have you felt nervous and stressed today"), and perceived self-efficacy (e.g., In the past couple of days, how often have you felt that things were going your way"). The PSS possesses strong internal validity, reliability, and cross-cultural applicability.
Secondary Outcomes
- Single-Item Quality of Life Scale (SI-QOLS)(1-Day Follow-Up)
- Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF)(1-Day Follow-Up)
- Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form (SF-FFMQ)(1-Day Follow-Up)
- Ego-Resilience Scale-11 (ER-11)(1-Day Follow-Up)
- Single-Item Quality of Life Scale (SI-QOLS)(Pre-Intervention)
- Single-Item Quality of Life Scale (SI-QOLS)(Immediate Post Intervention)
- Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form (SF-FFMQ)(Pre-Intervention)
- Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form (SF-FFMQ)(Immediate Post Intervention)
- Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF)(Pre-Intervention)
- Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF)(Immediate Post Intervention)
- Ego-Resilience Scale-11 (ER-11)(Pre-Intervention)
- Ego-Resilience Scale-11 (ER-11)(Immediate Post Intervention)
Investigators
Andy Hau Yan Ho, PhD, EdD
Associate Professor of Psychology
Nanyang Technological University