Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trial
BackgroundThis randomized controlled trial aims to compare changes in mental and physical health in older Japanese community-dwellers who participated in a productive art-based activity at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (intervention group) and in their counterparts, who did not participate in the interv...
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| description | BackgroundThis randomized controlled trial aims to compare changes in mental and physical health in older Japanese community-dwellers who participated in a productive art-based activity at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (intervention group) and in their counterparts, who did not participate in the intervention (control group).MethodsA total of 73 older community-dwellers living in Tokyo participated in a single-blind RCT in two parallel groups (intervention group versus control group). The intervention was 2 h of productive art-based activities per week. The weekly sessions were carried out at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum over a 12-week period. The control group did not participate in any productive art-based activity over the study period. Well-being, quality of life and frailty were assessed before the first, and after the last, art-based activity. These outcomes were assessed with the same schedule in both groups.ResultsThe intervention group saw a significant improvement in their quality of life (p < 0.044) and mixed results on their physical health (i.e., decreased frailty status) when compared to the control group. The comparison of changes in frailty scores between M0 and M3 showed improvement in the intervention group (p = 0.014), but when adjusted for baseline characteristics by linear regressions, revealed only a trend (p = 0.070). No conclusive effect was shown with well-being.InterpretationThis RCT showed mixed health effects of productive art engagement in older Japanese community-dwellers in Tokyo. Benefits were reported for quality of life and mixed effects were observed for frailty, while no significant effect was found for well-being.Clinical Trial Registration: Ethic committee of Shobi University, Tokyo (Japan), ref. A-2021-1; Clinical Trial Number NCT03679715. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-112bb6258f084f98923aad36f9120d9c2023-07-06T10:23:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Medicine2296-858X2023-07-011010.3389/fmed.2023.11887801188780Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trialYoko Hayashi0Yoko Hayashi1Jacqueline Matskiv2Kevin Galery3Olivier Beauchet4Olivier Beauchet5Olivier Beauchet6Faculty of Informatics for Arts, Department of Information Expression, Shobi University, Kawagoe, JapanRepresentative Director, Arts Alive, Tokyo, JapanResearch Centre of the Geriatric University Institute of Montreal, Montreal, QC, CanadaResearch Centre of the Geriatric University Institute of Montreal, Montreal, QC, CanadaResearch Centre of the Geriatric University Institute of Montreal, Montreal, QC, CanadaDepartments of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, CanadaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaBackgroundThis randomized controlled trial aims to compare changes in mental and physical health in older Japanese community-dwellers who participated in a productive art-based activity at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (intervention group) and in their counterparts, who did not participate in the intervention (control group).MethodsA total of 73 older community-dwellers living in Tokyo participated in a single-blind RCT in two parallel groups (intervention group versus control group). The intervention was 2 h of productive art-based activities per week. The weekly sessions were carried out at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum over a 12-week period. The control group did not participate in any productive art-based activity over the study period. Well-being, quality of life and frailty were assessed before the first, and after the last, art-based activity. These outcomes were assessed with the same schedule in both groups.ResultsThe intervention group saw a significant improvement in their quality of life (p < 0.044) and mixed results on their physical health (i.e., decreased frailty status) when compared to the control group. The comparison of changes in frailty scores between M0 and M3 showed improvement in the intervention group (p = 0.014), but when adjusted for baseline characteristics by linear regressions, revealed only a trend (p = 0.070). No conclusive effect was shown with well-being.InterpretationThis RCT showed mixed health effects of productive art engagement in older Japanese community-dwellers in Tokyo. Benefits were reported for quality of life and mixed effects were observed for frailty, while no significant effect was found for well-being.Clinical Trial Registration: Ethic committee of Shobi University, Tokyo (Japan), ref. A-2021-1; Clinical Trial Number NCT03679715.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2023.1188780/fullrandomized controlled clinicalwell-beingquality of lifefrailtyArt Museumproductive art engagement |
| spellingShingle | Yoko Hayashi Yoko Hayashi Jacqueline Matskiv Kevin Galery Olivier Beauchet Olivier Beauchet Olivier Beauchet Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trial Frontiers in Medicine randomized controlled clinical well-being quality of life frailty Art Museum productive art engagement |
| title | Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trial |
| title_full | Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trial |
| title_fullStr | Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trial |
| title_full_unstemmed | Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trial |
| title_short | Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trial |
| title_sort | productive arts engagement at the tokyo fuji art museum and its health effects on the older japanese population results of a randomized controlled trial |
| topic | randomized controlled clinical well-being quality of life frailty Art Museum productive art engagement |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2023.1188780/full |
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