NCT03987360

Educational and Cultural Engagement and Incidence of Health Adverse Events

Educational and Cultural Engagement and Incidence of Health Adverse Events: Results From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 30,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Jewish General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluated if the social and cultural activities decrease the incidence of dementia and frailty conditions.

Detailed description

The past decade has been characterized by the involvement of Museums in individual health prevention and promotion by using art-based activities to improve quality of life and well-being. Visiting museum or over cultural and educational activity could be used for health prevention and promotion. For the development of appropriate educational and cultural activities, there is a need, first, to improve knowledge about social and health condition of older adult, and second to examine the effects of engagement in educational and social activity on incidence of health adverse events.

Conditions

• Older Adults
• Depression
• Cognitive Decline

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Observational	Participants who attended different educational and cultural activities either in a community centers or public institutions like arts museums or universities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-31
• Primary completion: 2025-05-31
• Completion: 2025-07-31
• First posted: 2019-06-17
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada