Community Galleries - Art and Children in Action: Study Protocol

Associação para o Apoio à Integração Social e Comunitária

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self-concept; Health Related Quality of Life; Psychological Adjustment

Treatments: Other: Visual arts

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07165704

ESPACOT1220425

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this trial is to evaluate whether a community-based visual arts intervention can improve self-concept, psychological adjustment, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children aged between 6 and 12, from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does the intervention improve children's psychological adjustment, as the primary outcome?
• Does the intervention improve self-concept and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as the secondary outcomes?
• Is the intervention cost-effective compared to the waitlist control?

Researchers will compare children receiving the visual arts intervention (intervention group) with children not receiving the intervention (waiting list control group) to see if the program leads to measurable improvements in psychological adjustment, self-concept, and health-related quality of life.

Participants will:

• Take part in one-hour weekly visual arts sessions for nine months, led by professional artists;
• Participate in community art exhibitions at the end of the program;
• Complete questionnaires on psychological adjustment, self-concept, HRQoL, and societal resource use at baseline and post-intervention;
• Teachers/technicians will complete questionnaires on children's psychological adjustment.

Enrollment: 172 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be enrolled in elementary school and registered as a participant or student in one of the 10 schools or institutions, partners of the Community Galleries project.

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive deficit, neurological disease or global developmental disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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172 participants in 2 patient groups

Visual Art Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The arts intervention will consist of two parts: (a) implementation of one-hour session of Visual Arts (e.g., painting, drawing, printing techniques exercises). (b) Children's final artistic products will be displayed in Community Galleries in their neighbourhood in an opening ceremony.

Treatment:

Other: Visual arts

Waitlist Control

No Intervention group