Clinical trial NCT06130358: Investigating the Effects of a Museum Intervention on the Psychological and Cardiac Health of Older Adults
Official title: HeART-BRAIN : Investigating the Effects of a Museum Intervention on the Psychological and Cardiac Health of Older Adults With and Without Atrial Fibrillation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation Recurrent
Aging
Keywords: Museum visits
Neurocognition
Stress
Cardiovascular functioning
Lead sponsor: Montreal Heart Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec
name: Université de Montréal
name: Mitacs
First posted: 2023-11-14
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: In a recent report, the World Organization for Health provided some evidence that artistic and cultural activities can support the health and well-being of the population. Our previous research suggests that the effect of museum visits on well-being and stress might be tied to relaxing proprieties of contact with art objects, especially when the artwork is viewed with an introspective and self-reflexive approach. This study addresses the effect of a well-being museum intervention of six weeks on cerebral activity associated with artwork contemplation during a museum visit and assesses how it affects the psychological and cardiovascular health of older adults with and without atrial fibrillation. The well-being intervention will engage the participant in a series of 6 visits, in groups of 10, oriented on his feelings, impressions, and interpretations of artworks. This well-being museum intervention will be compared to visits typically provided in the museum, in a cross-over single-blinded design.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Men/women aged 50 and over,
* Presenting normal or corrected vision and hearing,
* With or without controlled Atrial fibrillation,
* No specific expertise in visual arts (official degree or training relating to the visual arts),
* Occasionally attended museums and exhibitions (≤ 6 times per year).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Score \> 5/15 on the geriatric depression scale,
* Score on the telephone version of the MMSE \< 19,
* Psychiatric or neurological diagnosis,
* Presence of major functional limitations likely to affect the individual's ability to stand and walk independently.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in the activity evoked within the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex during the contemplation of artwork
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in the activity evoked within the medial prefrontal cortex during the contemplation of artwork
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
Other outcomes:
measure: Change in Heart rate
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in arterial pressure
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in salivary cortisol concentration
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in emotionnal regulation
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in perceived stress
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in Depressive symptomatology
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in Quality-of-life
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in Perceived social support
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in Repetitive negative thinking
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in perceived fatigue
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in global cognition
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Change in executive functioning
timeFrame: Before and after the 6 weeks of interventions
measure: Self-reported masculinity and femininity trait
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Cognitive Reserve
timeFrame: Baseline
Locations:
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: Preventive medicine and physical activity centre (centre EPIC), Montreal Heart Institute
state: Quebec
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