ArticleFrontiers in medicine2022
Benefits of a 3-month cycle of weekly virtual museum tours in community dwelling older adults: Results of a randomized controlled trial.
Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05046288 (A 3-month Cycle of Weekly Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Guided Tours Oto Promote Social Inclusion, Well-being, Quality of Life and Health in Older Community Members Experiencing Social Isolation), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A 3-month Cycle of Weekly Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Guided Tours Oto Promote Social Inclusion, Well-being, Quality of Life and Health in Older Community Members Experiencing Social Isolation
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions against loneliness and social isolation in older adults- a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Non-Exercise-Based Interventions to Support Healthy Aging in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.The Gerontologist · 2024Pooled it
- Productive art engagement in a hybrid format: effects on emotions of older adults during COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Effects of museum-based art activities on older community dwellers' physical activity: the A-health randomized controlled trial results.European geriatric medicine · 2023Trial
- Hybrid Analysis of Videoconference Technology Use by Aging-in-Place Organizations to Promote Social Engagement for Older Adults: A Scoping Review with Latent Topic Modeling.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- From art to mental health: exploring the impact of a museum-based intervention on psychological well-being.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Physician-prescribed museum visit benefits on mental health: results of an experimental study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Leveraging the Metaverse for Enhanced Longevity as a Component of Health 4.0.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health · 2024Review
- Using Voice-Activated Technologies to Enhance Well-Being of Older Adults in Long-Term Care Homes.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Prefrontal engagement predicts the effect of museum visit on psychological well-being: an fNIRS exploration.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Understanding and Improving Older People's Well-Being through Social Prescribing Involving the Cultural Sector: Interviews from a Realist Evaluation.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023Article
- Research on recognition and intervention of behavior sequences in virtual museum learning.PloS one · 2023Article
- 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 · 2023Article
- Museum-based art activities to stay young at heart? Results of a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- The Arrival of the Metaverse in Neurorehabilitation: Fact, Fake or Vision?Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Museums and art therapy: A bibliometric analysis of the potential of museum art therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Background: Museums can be instrumental in fostering social inclusion and may improve the overall health of the older population. Over the course of the 2019 coronavirus pandemic, many older adults suffered as a result of confinement measures, which may have accelerated the processes that lead to physical frailty and increased mental health risks. This study aims to examine whether a 3-month cycle of weekly virtual tours of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) may have improved feelings of social inclusion, wellbeing and quality of life, and reduced physical frailty in older adults living within the community of Montreal. Methods and design: A total of 106 older adults, who were community-dwellers living in Montreal (Quebec, Canada), were recruited for a randomized controlled trial in two parallel groups (intervention with Results: The intervention group showed significant improvements in their social isolation, wellbeing, quality of life and frailty scores when compared to the control group, the highest benefits being observed with frailty. Conclusion: The results suggest that the 3-month cycle of weekly virtual MMFA tours may improve social inclusion, physical and mental health in community-dwelling older adults living in Montreal. Trial registration: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05046288, identifier NCT05046288.
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