Clinical trial NCT05445453: Museum Prescription by a Physician for a Visit to the MBAM
Official title: Museum Prescription by a Physician for a Visit to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Assessment of Effects.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Quality of Life
Social Isolation
Keywords: Arts
Well-being
Mental Health
Lead sponsor: Centre integre universitaire de sante et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2022-07-06
Enrollment: 86
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: This study is experimental, prospective, open-label, non-randomized, pre-post intervention with a single group of participants who will be their own control.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: In recent years, museums have participated in the patient care journey by using art to enhance their quality of life and well-being. Since 2015, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and Dr. Beauchet have developed an Action-Research program exploring the effects of participatory art activities for community elders conducted at the MMFA, known as the Arts \& Longevity Lab (ALL). The mandate of ALL is to improve the well-being, quality of life and health (i.e. mental and physical state) of individuals and patients through the practice of visual arts activities (i.e. arts that produce objects perceived by the eyes).

Since 2019, the MMFA has developed in collaboration with Médecins Francophones du Canada museum visits prescribed by a primary care physician as a new intervention. Today, it is necessary to improve the knowledge on the effects of this museum visit prescription

The overall objective of this study is to examine the effects of a visit to the MMFA prescribed by a primary care physician on the mental health (well-being and quality of life) of patients living in Montreal.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* age 18 and over
* having Internet access at home with an electronic device (computer, keyboard, or smartphone)
* having no dementia
* speaking English or French
* committing to visiting the museum within 3 months of the prescription.

Exclusion Criteria:

* individuals participating in a clinical trial at the same time, to avoid interference with the results of the intervention being studied in this protocol
* individuals with dementia. There are no tests for dementia. The physicians involved in the pre-recruitment process are aware of the cognitive status of their patients. Therefore, they will be able to avoid offering the study to a patient with dementia if such a diagnosis appears in the medical file.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Quality of life
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Well-being
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Physical Health Status
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Social Isolation
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Prescribing context
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Satisfaction from the visit to the museum
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: CRIUGM
state: Quebec
Study officials:
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