Online Culture for Mental Health in People Aged 16-24
Condition: Depression; Anxiety
MeSH terms: Depression
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      O-ACE POP is a randomised controlled trial of an online cultural experience named Ways of
      Being, compared to a typical museum website (the Ashmolean Museum). The primary aim is to
      compare these two interventions by efficacy on mood, distress (depression and anxiety),
      flourishing and investigate potential mechanisms of action, as well as the feasibility of a
      larger scale RCT.
    

Detailed description: 
      People of target age will be actively recruited with a link to Participant information and
      E-consent procedures for those who fulfil inclusion criteria and consent to entering their
      email address.

      Consenting participants will enter a demographic questionnaire. Participants will then be
      emailed a unique ID number and requested to complete a baseline assessment on a computer,
      including self-report measures and online tasks. Participants will then be randomised to WoB
      or the Ashmolean Website. Once randomised participants will be requested to log on to the
      intervention at least once a day for the next three days

      Randomisation and blinding Randomisation procedures will be followed. The participants will
      be aware of which intervention they have been allocated to. All measures are online and
      self-report.

      Ways of Being (WoB) is an online cultural experience designed to reduce distress (symptoms of
      anxiety and depression) and promote positive mental health in people aged 16-24. It is a
      web-experience based on qualitative research and co-production with people aged 16-24. The
      experience is based on human centred narratives related to the objects and artworks of the
      Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and partner museums. In addition, other people's viewpoints on the
      objects and artworks or narrative, are a focus of the experience. The experience combines
      text, audio and aesthetic elements.

      The Ashmolean Website is a generic museum website owned by the Ashmolean Museum of Art and
      Archaeology at the University of Oxford. The Ashmolean is the oldest public museum in the UK,
      and has incredibly rich and diverse collections from around the globe, ranging from classical
      civilisation to the Pre-Raphaelites and modern art. The website is aimed at general museum
      visitors, tourists, families, primary, secondary and tertiary learners, teachers, and those
      with specialist cultural interests.

      Statistical Analysis Plan The main outcome will be the mean PANAS score at each time point.
      These will be regressed on time (pre-intervention vs. during, exit and follow up), a group
      indicator (WoB vs. the Ashmolean Website), and their interaction.
    

Intervention name(s): WofB; Ashmolean Website
Intervention type(s): Other; Other
Intervention description(s): Online experience designed to reduce anxiety and depression and support mental health and wellbeing; A generic museum website owned by the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description: Two arm study, 1:1 randomisation (stratified by gender)
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary purpose: Other