Clinical trial NCT04399096: Sound and Vision: A Collaboration Between Service-users, Artists and the Public to Explore the Lived Experience of Hallucinations
Official title: Sound and Vision: A Collaboration Between Service-users, Artists and the Public to Explore the Lived Experience of Hallucinations
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Schizophrenia
Parkinson Disease
Hallucinations
Keywords: hallucination
Lead sponsor: University of Cambridge
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
name: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
First posted: 2020-05-22
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The general publication attending an exhibition of artworks depicting the experience of hallucinations.

Brief summary: Sound and Vision: A collaboration between service-users, artists and the public to explore the lived experience of hallucinations

Detailed description: Sound and Vision will pair local artists with patients who have had hallucinations to create art pieces that represent their hallucinatory experiences. Patients with diagnoses of schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease will be invited to take part in participating National Health Service (NHS) clinics, to capture and compare a wide range of hallucinatory experiences. Patients will meet with artists on several occasions who will then develop the piece, which may be a painting, drawing, or other media that the artist and service-user jointly select.

Completed artworks will be the centrepiece for an exhibition at United Kingdom (UK) science festivals and a digital (on-line) presentation. The exhibition will be accompanied by researchers explaining the brain science of hallucinations, recordings of patients and artists describing their experience with hallucinations and the process of developing the artworks, booklets cataloguing the exhibition, and art materials available for artistic expression of their own experiences. A digital compendium of the artworks and supporting material will be publicly available alongside the opportunity to complete an online survey exploring the themes of the artworks and collecting information on personal experiences. The objectives are to engage the public in an appreciation of the experience of hallucinations and their prevalence across many common mental health and neurodegenerative disorders, as well as an experience many people will share without ever being diagnosed. The exhibition will also encourage the public to share their own experiences through the online questionnaires creating a platform to begin to improve the understanding of the diversity of hallucination-like experiences in the general population.

Eligibility criteria: No particular inclusion or exclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: University of Miami Parkinson's disease Hallucinations Questionnaire (UM-PDHQ)
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: The Multi-Modality Unusual Sensory Experiences Questionnaire (MUSEQ)
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cambridge
country: United Kingdom
facility: Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Trust
state: Cambs
city: Cambridge
country: United Kingdom
facility: Cambridge University Hospital
state: Cambs
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Cambridge
name: John Suckling
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
name: Emilio Fernandez-Egea
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
name: James Rowe
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Rollins CPE, Garrison JR, Simons JS, Rowe JB, O'Callaghan C, Murray GK, Suckling J. Meta-analytic Evidence for the Plurality of Mechanisms in Transdiagnostic Structural MRI Studies of Hallucination Status. EClinicalMedicine. 2019 Feb 21;8:57-71. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.01.012. eCollection 2019 Feb.