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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Well Aging; Social Isolation; Old Age; Health Impairment
• Interventions: Other: Guided tour at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

• Registration Number: NCT03962985
• Lead Sponsor: Jewish General Hospital

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.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-05-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-05-23
• Study First Posted: 2019-05-24
• Study Start: 2019-07-23
• Primary Completion: 2022-06-01
• Status Verified: 2024-07
• Study Completion: 2024-07-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-07-22
• Last Update Posted: 2024-07-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 41

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 & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Guided tour at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts	The 41 participants will attend the guided tours at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Precarious social conditions	3 months	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.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Well-being	3 months	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).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Jewish General Hospital; 🇨🇦 Montréal, Quebec, Canada