Effects of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Visits and Older Community Dwellers With a Precarious State: An Experimental Study
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Jewish General Hospital
- Enrollment
- 41
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Precarious social conditions
Study Overview
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 Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 65 Years to — (Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
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).
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Precarious social conditions
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Well-being(3 months)
Investigators
Olivier Beauchet
MD, Professor of Geriatrics
Jewish General Hospital