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The Singapore Art-Health Study

A study testing Singapore A-Health Intervention in people with Art and Wellness, Psychological, run by Nanyang Technological University at 1 site in Singapore.

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Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The goal of the Singapore Art-Health RCT is to examine the effect of a standardized 12-week museum -based participatory art program on health condition, well-being, and quality of life in older community dweller, one that adheres to the Montreal Art-Health framework with culturally specific modifications that are… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 60 to 99 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Art, Wellness, Psychological, Frailty
What is being tested?
Singapore A-Health Intervention
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
112 participants
Where
1 siteSingapore
Study dates
2 Mar 2021to 31 Dec 2021
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 60 to 99 years
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • individuals above the age of 60,
  • fluent in English
  • able to access the internet to complete the online psychometric assessments

Who cannot join

  • unable to provide informed consent
  • diagnosed with mental health conditions

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Singapore1 site
  • Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, 637332

Other trials in Singapore

About this study

Official title: Effects of Participatory Art-Based Activity On Health of Older Community-Dwellers: The Singapore Art-Health Randomized Control Trial Study

The goal of the Singapore Art-Health RCT is to examine the effect of a standardized 12-week museum -based participatory art program on health condition, well-being, and quality of life in older community dweller, one that adheres to the Montreal Art-Health framework with culturally specific modifications that are fitting to the local Singaporean context.

Participants will be randomized into an intervention group of a passive control group. Participants in the intervention group will be invited to participate in the 12-week Singapore Art-Health Intervention held at the National Gallery Singapore. All participants will be invited to complete four online psychometric assessments. Participants in the intervention group will be invited to completed an additional post-intervention survey and a feasibility focus group.

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Background: Population aging continues to be global health challenge. The prevalence of longstanding age-related conditions such as worsening physical, social, and mental health is expected to increase exponentially with a rapidly ageing population. The practice of participatory art in various settings has been found to be effective in the promotion, prevention and management of health and wellbeing conditions across the life span. However, its effect on health condition among the older population, particularly in the Asian context remains to be investigated. In Montreal, findings from a pilot study provided strong evidence to show that a 12-week, standardized "Art-Health" participatory art program had multidimensional positive effects on the health outcomes of older community dwelling participants including improvements in wellbeing, quality of life, and frail condition.

Current Proposal: The current research will adopt and modify the Montreal Art-Health participatory art framework with local cultural specificity (i.e. The Singapore Art-Health Intervention), and tests its effectiveness in healthy and wellness promotion among a sample of Singaporean older adults via a randomized control trial.

Research Design: The study adopts a participatory action research paradigm and a single-site, open-label Randomized Control Trial (RCT) design to develop and examine the effect of a standardized 12-week museum-based participatory art activity on health condition, wellbeing, and quality of life in older community dwellers.

Sampling and Randomization: Allowing for an attrition rate of 5% at follow-up, a target sample of 110 provides 90% power to detect an effect size of 0.55 (based on the results of the pilot study) between the intervention group and the control group at 5% level of significance (two-tailed test). Participants will be randomized into an intervention group of a passive control group. Participants in the intervention group will be invited to participate in the 12-week Singapore A-Health Intervention held at the National Gallery Singapore.

Intervention Design: The Singapore Art-Health Intervention will span 12 weeks, with each weekly session lasting for two hours. The program is designed to impart basic art appreciation skill (formal analysis in art) and art making techniques to participants through engagement with the collection at the museum.

Outcome measures and Data Analysis: All participants will be invited to complete four online psychometric assessments. Participants in the intervention group will be invited to completed an additional post-intervention survey and a feasibility focus group. For the quantitative data, between and within comparisons of outcomes will be conducted by mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVA), repeated measures ANOVA, and pairwise t-tests with Bonferroni correction. The focus group discussions will be analyzed using thematic analysis with a grounded theory approach to provide insights to the participant's experience and impact of the Singapore Art-Health Intervention.

Importance of Research: The current research will develop and test the effectiveness of a culturally-specific Art-Health participatory art program on health and wellness promotion among a sample of Singaporean older adults. Working collaboratively with the National Gallery Singapore in program development and implementation will serve to ensure program sustainability upon research completion. This collaboration will also foster practice and knowledge transfer to accelerate creative ageing in the local society. Moreover, the findings will contribute to an international RCT for evaluating a standardized participatory art framework to address the impact of population ageing. It will be a potential breakthrough in the development of an efficient art and museum program for older adults locally and internationally.

Being tested
Singapore A-Health Intervention
Keywords
Art, Museum, Quality of Life, Frailty
Medical subject headings
Psychological Well-Being, Frailty

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Singapore A-Health InterventionBehavioural

    The Singapore A-Health Intervention spanned 12 weeks, with each weekly session lasting for two hours. The program is structured around three thematic domains of the past, present, and future. In each thematic domain consisting of four weeks, participants were tasked with creating an artwork related to the theme and incorporating the learned art techniques. The structure of each thematic domain follows the same structure: the first week involved a 45-minute docent-led gallery tour on three selected pieces of artworks, followed by a 75-minute artist-led brainstorming session where participants were introduced to the techniques and discuss ideas on the artwork to be created. The subsequent three sessions involved further guidance from the artist and a scaffolded delivery of art techniques for participants to incorporate their learning to their artwork. At the end of each domain, there was a showcase where participants present their artwork.

Study groups in NCT05945589
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Singapore A-Health GroupExperimentalA 12-week professionally led participatory art program at the gallery with each week comprising one 2-hour art session, totaling 24 hours of museum tours and participatory art activities.
Receives: Behavioral: Singapore A-Health Intervention
Control GroupNo interventionNo art-based activities offered and advised not to participate in concurrent health and art-based interventions during the 12-week research period.

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Quality of Life (EQ5D)

    Quality of life will be assessed by EuroQol-5D (EQ5D) which comprised of two parts: (1) 5-item scale on mobility, self-care, daily activities, pain, and depressive symptoms, (2) a visual analog scale of the participant's perceived health ranging from 0 (worst health) to 100 (best health one can imagine)

    Measured: Baseline

  2. Change in Quality of Life (EQ5D)

    Quality of life will be assessed by EuroQol-5D (EQ5D) which comprised of two parts: (1) 5-item scale on mobility, self-care, daily activities, pain, and depressive symptoms, (2) a visual analog scale of the participant's perceived health ranging from 0 (worst health) to 100 (best health one can imagine)

    Measured: 5-week follow-up

  3. Change in Quality of Life (EQ5D)

    Quality of life will be assessed by EuroQol-5D (EQ5D) which comprised of two parts: (1) 5-item scale on mobility, self-care, daily activities, pain, and depressive symptoms, (2) a visual analog scale of the participant's perceived health ranging from 0 (worst health) to 100 (best health one can imagine)

    Measured: 9-week follow-up

  4. Change in Quality of Life (EQ5D)

    Quality of life will be assessed by EuroQol-5D (EQ5D) which comprised of two parts: (1) 5-item scale on mobility, self-care, daily activities, pain, and depressive symptoms, (2) a visual analog scale of the participant's perceived health ranging from 0 (worst health) to 100 (best health one can imagine)

    Measured: 12-week follow-up

  5. Mental Wellbeing (WEMWBS)

    Mental Wellbeing will be assessed by Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales (WEMWBS), a 14-item scale assessing various domains of wellbeing.

    Measured: Baseline

  6. Change in Mental Wellbeing (WEMWBS)

    Mental Wellbeing will be assessed by Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales (WEMWBS), a 14-item scale assessing various domains of wellbeing.

    Measured: 5-week follow-up

  7. Change in Mental Wellbeing (WEMWBS)

    Mental Wellbeing will be assessed by Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales (WEMWBS), a 14-item scale assessing various domains of wellbeing.

    Measured: 9-week follow-up

  8. Change in Mental Wellbeing (WEMWBS)

    Mental Wellbeing will be assessed by Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales (WEMWBS), a 14-item scale assessing various domains of wellbeing.

    Measured: 12-week follow-up

  9. Frailty (CESAM)

    Frailty will be assessed by the Centre of Excellence on Longevity Self-administered Questionnaire (CESAM). It is a 20-item scale assessing multiple aspects of health such as drug intake, memory complaints, health service utilization, and activities of daily living.

    Measured: Baseline

  10. Change in Frailty (CESAM)

    Frailty will be assessed by the Centre of Excellence on Longevity Self-administered Questionnaire (CESAM). It is a 20-item scale assessing multiple aspects of health such as drug intake, memory complaints, health service utilization, and activities of daily living.

    Measured: 5-week follow-up

  11. Change in Frailty (CESAM)

    Frailty will be assessed by the Centre of Excellence on Longevity Self-administered Questionnaire (CESAM). It is a 20-item scale assessing multiple aspects of health such as drug intake, memory complaints, health service utilization, and activities of daily living.

    Measured: 9-week follow-up

  12. Change in Frailty (CESAM)

    Frailty will be assessed by the Centre of Excellence on Longevity Self-administered Questionnaire (CESAM). It is a 20-item scale assessing multiple aspects of health such as drug intake, memory complaints, health service utilization, and activities of daily living.

    Measured: 12-week follow-up

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted14 Jul 2023
  2. Study start2 Mar 2021
  3. Primary completion30 Nov 2021
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2021

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
Intervention group participants will be invited to engaged in a 12-week participatory art program at the gallery. Participants in the control condition will not offered any art-based activities. All participants were advised not to participate in concurrent health art-based interventions during the research period.
Masking
Triple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
112 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05945589
Sponsor's protocol ID
IRB-2020-02-005
Status last verified
Jul 2023
First submitted
5 Jul 2023
Last updated
14 Jul 2023
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No: There are currently no plans o make individual participant data (IPD) available to other researchers.

Publications

  • Beauchet O, Cooper-Brown LA, Hayashi Y, Deveault M, Ho AHY, Launay CP. Health benefits of "Thursdays at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts": Results of a randomized clinical trial. Maturitas. 2021 Nov;153:26-32. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.07.013. Epub 2021 Jul 31.

    PubMed 34654525
  • Beauchet O, Bastien T, Mittelman M, Hayashi Y, Hau Yan Ho A. Participatory art-based activity, community-dwelling older adults and changes in health condition: Results from a pre-post intervention, single-arm, prospective and longitudinal study. Maturitas. 2020 Apr;134:8-14. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.01.006. Epub 2020 Jan 13.

    PubMed 32143777
  • Ho AHY, Ma SHX, Tan MKB, Bajpai R, Goh SSN, Yeo G, Teng A, Yang Y, Galery K, Beauchet O. Effects of participatory 'A'rt-Based Activity On 'Health' of Older Community-Dwellers: results from a randomized control trial of the Singapore A-Health Intervention. Front Med (Lausanne). 2023 Dec 21;10:1238562. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1238562. eCollection 2023.

    PubMed 38188333

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Singapore A-Health Intervention in people with Art and Wellness, Psychological, run by Nanyang Technological University at 1 site in Singapore.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 14 Jul 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Singapore. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Quality of Life (EQ5D) (time frame: Baseline). The study lists 12 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05945589, which also lists 3 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 14 Jul 2023.

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