Can Exposure to Inclusive Virtual Art Decrease Pain and Social Disconnection Among Individuals Living With Chronic Pain?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 311
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Social disconnection
研究概览
简要总结
The proposed study is an experimental intervention to test for the effects of exposure to art by means of a virtual museum visit. It examines the fundamental question of whether exposure to virtual art can alleviate pain. Google Arts & Culture has digitized the collections of over 2,000 museums, art galleries, and other cultural institutions. The platform is free and allows 'visitors' to explore art from around the world. For this study, the PIs have chosen artwork from this collection and created a virtual museum gallery such that research participants will visit the museum with or without art (i.e., we will remove all art from the virtual galleries). In addition, we hypothesize that individuals primed to experience social connection prior to art exposure will experience lower perceived social disconnection and pain than those who are not primed.
详细描述
Research Design: 2 (virtual artwork exposure: present, absent) x 2 (prime: social connection prime: high, low) factorial experiment with a hanging control group (4 cells plus 1 control group, for a total of 5 cells) and 2 repeated measures. A priori power analysis using G*Power showed that the required sample size for a 5-group repeated measures experiment with 2 measurement times with 1-B error probability = .80 that expected small effect with a size of d = .10 and a significance level of p = .05 was a total of 305 participants (61 participants per cell).
Eligible individuals will be offered informed consent documentation via the StudyPages platform and then will be randomized to their study group:
- Artwork present + Social connection prime high
- Artwork present + Social connection prime low
- Artwork absent + Social connection prime high
- Artwork absent + Social connection prime low
- Hanging control group - no exposure to any independent variables (i.e. artwork: present or absent; social connection prime: high or low)
Participants will fill out pre-intervention scales (pain intensity and unpleasantness; perceived social disconnection) prior to their virtual museum experience. Participants will then visit a virtual art museum gallery for 10 minutes or receive no exposure if they are in the hanging control group. In the artwork present condition, the virtual museum will feature paintings as part of an exhibition. In the artwork absent condition, paintings will be removed and thus the virtual museum will be empty. In the high social connection prime condition participants will be assigned to write an essay about a person and situation that made them feel valued, seen, and heard. In the low social connection prime condition participants will be assigned to write about a person and situation that made them feel ignored and not very valued. After 10 minutes within their condition participants will complete a post-intervention survey.
In addition, written responses to the social connection primes and museum visit data (e.g., user movement, object interaction, and perceptions about artwork in the museum) will be collected and analyzed.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Factorial
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •read and write in English language
- •chronic moderate to severe pain (≥ 6 months in duration; ≥ 4 in response to the question, "on average this week my pain intensity has been?" on a 0-10 NRS)
- •lonely (≥ 4 on the 3-item Loneliness Scale)
- •access to an electronic device with internet connection in order to participate in the study
排除标准
- •adults unable to consent
研究组 & 干预措施
Artwork present + social connection high
Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of high social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with artwork for 10 minutes
干预措施: Artwork present (Behavioral)
Artwork present + social connection low
Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of low social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with artwork for 10 minutes
干预措施: Artwork present (Behavioral)
Artwork present + social connection high
Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of high social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with artwork for 10 minutes
干预措施: Social connection high (Behavioral)
Artwork present + social connection low
Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of low social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with artwork for 10 minutes
干预措施: Social connection low (Behavioral)
Artwork absent + social connection high
Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of high social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with no artwork for 10 minutes
干预措施: Artwork absent (Behavioral)
Artwork absent + social connection high
Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of high social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with no artwork for 10 minutes
干预措施: Social connection high (Behavioral)
Artwork absent + social connection low
Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of low social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with no artwork for 10 minutes
干预措施: Artwork absent (Behavioral)
Artwork absent + social connection low
Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of low social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with no artwork for 10 minutes
干预措施: Social connection low (Behavioral)
Hanging control group
Individuals will receive no exposure to any independent variables (i.e. artwork: present or absent; social connection prime: high or low) for 10 minutes before completing their final survey.
结局指标
主要结局
Social disconnection
时间窗: Post-intervention (immediately)/Day 1
Social disconnection scale; 12 items; scored 1 (not at all) - 5 (very much); range 12-60
次要结局
- Change in pain during intervention(Post-intervention (immediately)/Day 1)
- Pain intensity(Post-intervention (immediately)/Day 1)
- Pain unpleasantness(Post-intervention (immediately)/Day 1)
- Perceptions of the artwork related to the positivity of the social world(Post-intervention (immediately)/Day 1)
- Perceptions of the artwork related to connection to the social world(Post-intervention (immediately)/Day 1)
- Percent change in pain during intervention(Post-intervention (immediately)/Day 1)
- Perceptions of the artwork related to inclusion in the social world(Post-intervention (immediately)/Day 1)
- Perceptions of the artwork related to positivity of social relationships(Post-intervention (immediately)/Day 1)