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

Jewish General Hospital41 enrolled

Overview

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.

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 Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Well Aging Health Impairment Social Isolation Old Age

Interventions

Guided tour at the Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsOTHER

* The duration of the participation -3 months * The duration of the guided tour-45 minutes, each week * All participants will be asked to fill out some specific online questionnaires during their participations in the study

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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).

Locations (1)

Jewish General Hospital

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Precarious social conditions

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.

Time frame: 3 months

Secondary Outcomes

Well-being

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).

Time frame: 3 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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