Integrating Lonely Elderly Patients in Workshops in a Cartoon Museum: An Efficacy Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Difference from baseline in summary Index of EuroQol -5D
研究概览
简要总结
Social relationships are important to people and it affects their quality of life, morbidity and mortality.
This is a randomised controlled trial studying the effect of including older people with impaired social relationships and a perception of loneliness at workshops, at The Storm P. Museum - a museum about the well known Danish cartoonist Robert Storm Petersen.
The hypothesis is, that by including older lonely people with a impaired social participation in these workshops, they will increase the participants health related quality of life. The investigators also hypothesis, that the intervention will improve the participants perception of loneliness, social participation and physical function.
The intervention consist of a series of workshops at the Storm P. Museum. At these workshops the participants will create memory material for nursing home residents with dementia. The museum staff will facilitate a process of storytelling, using events, significant stories and artistic works by Storm P. and encourage the participants, by means of the "narrative interview" method to share similar stories from their life.
详细描述
Background:
Social relations are important to people and it affects their quality of life, morbidity and mortality. This is especially true among older people and social relations are also important for the management of chronic diseases. Those with strong social relations are less sick, and recover faster if they become sick. There is also a connection between social relations and death, as people with many social relations are more likely to live longer than people with few social relations. In Denmark it is assumed that poor social relationships causes between 1000-1500 deaths per year, equivalent to about 2% of all deaths.
This is a randomised controlled trial studying the effect of including older people with poor social relationships and a perception of loneliness at workshops, at The Storm P. Museum - a museum about the well known Danish cartoonist Robert Storm Petersen.
Hypothesis:
The hypothesis is, that by including older lonely people with a poor social participation in these workshops, they will increase the participants health related quality of life. The investigators also hypothesis, that the intervention will improve the participants perception of loneliness, social participation and physical function as well as mortality and nursing home placement at long term.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Patients consulting their general practitioner in the municipality of Frederiksberg during february/Marts
- •Who in a questionnaire have a low score of social participation and answers they often feel lonely.
- •The participants are allocated to the study consecutively.
- •Inclusion Criteria:
- •Age: 65 years or older, Consultation at the general practice during the project period, Impaired social participation and often/occasionally perceive loneliness, Provided written informed consent
排除标准
- •Do not talk or understand Danish, Terminal ill, Physically not able to participate, Low score on cognitive test (OMC test)
研究组 & 干预措施
Information and event at a cartoon museum
干预措施: Information and event at a cartoon museum (Behavioral)
Information, event and workshops at a cartoon museum
干预措施: Information, event and workshops at a cartoon museum (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Difference from baseline in summary Index of EuroQol -5D
时间窗: Baseline, 9 months and 18 months
Health related quality of life measured by EuroQol -5D
次要结局
- "Timed up and go" test(Baseline, 9 months and 18 months)
- Score on social participation scale(Baseline, 9 months and 18 months)
- Consultation at general practice and hospital admission(Baseline, 9 months and 18 months)
- Score on Mobility-Tiredness scale(Baseline, 9 months and 18 months)
- Score of GDS-15 items(baseline, 9 months and 18 months)
- Score of MMSE test(Baseline, 9 months, 18 months)
- Loneliness(Baseline, 9 months and 18 months)
研究者
Frans Boch Waldorff
PhD
Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen