Clinical trial NCT05803226: Slow Art Plus: A Single Session Art Gallery-based Intervention for Mental Health Promotion
Official title: Slow Art Plus: Developing and Piloting a Single Session Art Gallery-based Intervention for Mental Health Promotion Via a Mixed Method Waitlist Randomized Control Trial (RCT)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1
Self Care
Compassion
Keywords: Slow Looking
Mindfulness
Self-Compassion
Lead sponsor: Nanyang Technological University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Gallery Singapore
First posted: 2023-04-07
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The Slow Art Plus programme will involve a full 90-minute engagement, one that is built upon the existing Slow Art programme with added layers of mindfulness and self-compassion practices, as well as a response art activity that fosters symbolic dialogue and an emotional aesthetic experience between participants and the selected art piece.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Utilizing a Participatory Action Research (PAR) paradigm, this 12-month study will adopt a mixed method Waitlist Randomized Control Trial (RCT) with a built-in acceptability and feasibility study to test the efficacy of Slow Art Plus in reducing stress and empowering self-care among 200 participants.

Detailed description: The specific objectives are in four-folds: 1) To develop a standardized 90-minute single-session Slow Art Plus programme that integrates: (a) slow looking; (b) mindfulness meditation; (c) self-compassion activities; (d) reflective-creative expressions; and (e) dyadic sharing, to form a holistic mental health promotion intervention; 2) To assess the effectiveness of Slow Art Plus for reducing participants' perceived stress (primary outcomes); 3) To assess the effectiveness of Slow Art Plus for enhancing participants' self-awareness, self-care capacity, psychological resilience, and quality of life (secondary outcomes); and 4) To assess the feasibility and acceptability of the standardized Slow Art Plus protocol for large scale implementation in Singapore and greater Asia.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- individuals who can communicate in English and provide informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* individuals who are suffering from depression or other major mental illness.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
timeFrame: Pre-Intervention
measure: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
timeFrame: Immediate Post Intervention
measure: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
timeFrame: 1-Day Follow-UP
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form (SF-FFMQ)
timeFrame: Pre-Intervention
measure: Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form (SF-FFMQ)
timeFrame: Immediate Post Intervention
measure: Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form (SF-FFMQ)
timeFrame: 1-Day Follow-Up
measure: Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF)
timeFrame: Pre-Intervention
measure: Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF)
timeFrame: Immediate Post Intervention
measure: Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF)
timeFrame: 1-Day Follow-Up
measure: Ego-Resilience Scale-11 (ER-11)
timeFrame: Pre-Intervention
measure: Ego-Resilience Scale-11 (ER-11)
timeFrame: Immediate Post Intervention
measure: Ego-Resilience Scale-11 (ER-11)
timeFrame: 1-Day Follow-Up
measure: Single-Item Quality of Life Scale (SI-QOLS)
timeFrame: Pre-Intervention
measure: Single-Item Quality of Life Scale (SI-QOLS)
timeFrame: Immediate Post Intervention
measure: Single-Item Quality of Life Scale (SI-QOLS)
timeFrame: 1-Day Follow-Up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Singapore
country: Singapore
facility: Nanyang Technological University
Study officials:
affiliation: Nanyang Technological University
name: Andy HY Ho, PhD, EdD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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