Patient Engagement Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Royal Conservatory's ARTS-REHAB Project Research Study
The ARTS-REHAB Project Research Study examines how meaningful engagement in a creative process might impact inpatients in rehabilitation centres. Participants in this random control trial study will be recruited from a slow-stream rehabilitation patient population. The study intervention will consist of The Royal Conservatory's Living Through the Arts program. Data will be collected using structured and semi-structured questionnaires along with observational logs and focus groups. This study will explore the effects of the program, comparing the intervention and control group participants' sense of hope and optimism for returning to their daily lives, as well as their sense of engagement in their physical recovery.
The question to be answered through the proposed ARTS-REHAB Project Research Study is: how
can meaningful engagement in a creative arts program impact the personal and social wellness
of patients in rehabilitation? The ARTS-REHAB Project is a random control trial study that
aims to describe and interpret the expectations and experiences of patients' evolving sense
of self in recovery as informed by their participation in The Royal Conservatory's Living
Through the Arts program. Living Through the Arts is an inter-arts program designed to
empower individuals and communities through artistic self-expression and creativity. For
those patients receiving this arts intervention in addition to their rehabilitation
activities, we expect to see a difference in the following primary measures of their
evolving sense of self in recovery compared to patients in a control group. That is, we
expect to find an increased sense of hope and optimism; increased sense of future purpose;
as well as increased engagement in their rehabilitation. In addition, we will also explore
potential attending benefit of functional improvements through a measure of an anticipated
decrease in patients' length of hospital stay. Given the complexity of the ARTS-REHAB
Project, the study is being conducted in two phases: Phase 1 (now completed) was an 8-week
pilot study, conducted at West Park Healthcare Centre and Bridgepoint Active Healthcare
between July and October 2014. This pilot evaluated strictly the operational feasibility of
implementing an arts program and collecting data with a slow-stream rehabilitation patient
population. Phase 2 expands on the learning from the pilot study and involves a
two-and-a-half-year Random Control Trial (RTC) study with a total of 8 hospitals (including
St. Peter's Hospital in Hamilton, four Toronto hospitals, and 3 other hospitals from across
the province). Unlike the pilot study of feasibility, the focus of the two-and-a-half-year
study is on the research measures of personal and social wellness described above.
As an extension of a growing literature on arts and healthcare, the proposed research
contributes to the knowledge of the transformative potential of creative arts programs /
interventions in healthcare settings. Perceptual psychologist Rudolph Arnheim wrote that,
"by demonstrating what it can do for the distressed, art reminds us what it is meant to do
for everybody" (Arnheim,1986, p. 257). Arnheim's observation aptly captures the spirit of
the literature on the contributions of creative arts to the health of individuals with
illness and disability (Daykin, Byrne, Soteriou, & Sullivan-Marx, 2006 for review; McNiff,
2009; Malchiodi, ed., 2000; Moon, 2008). However, much of this literature focuses on
specific art forms as medical therapy for specific illnesses (e.g., dementia, schizophrenia)
and specific demographics (seniors, children). There appears to be a need for studies that
examine more broadly how engagement in a creative process serves the whole person and not
strictly the disability during recovery / treatment. The ARTS-REHAB Project Research Study
takes up this approach by exploring recovery not only in terms of patients' physical needs,
but also in terms of their emotional and psychological needs for healing and returning to
their daily lives and communities.
Given the "whole person" approach of this study, the degree of a patient's engagement in
their recovery must be considered. A diverse literature on patient motivation and compliance
has shown that patient engagement can play a role in determining the success of their
treatment (O'Gorman, 1975; Meichenbaum & Turk, 1987 for review; McClean & Pound, 2000;
Skolasky, et al., 2008). Building on this literature, the proposed study will examine the
influence of participation in the arts intervention on patients' motivation and perseverance
in their rehabilitation treatment.
A third body of literature relevant to this study explores psycho-social indicators of
wellbeing in illness/recovery. Within that broad literature, the concept of optimism emerges
as playing an important role in coping with stressful life events. Optimism is characterized
by an orientation toward the future where positive explanations are offered even for
negative outcomes. Simply put, it is the general expectation that good rather than bad will
happen (Sheier & Carver, 1985). According to the literature, optimism has been associated
with improved quality of life in the form of lower anxiety/depression for cancer patients
(Carver, Pozo, Harris, 1993; Applebaum et al, 2014) and patients with traumatic brain injury
(Peleg, et al., 2009), greater satisfaction with a treatment regime for patients suffering
myocardial infarction (Barry, et al., 2007), and lower suicidal ideation for university
students (Range & Penton, 1994). Much of the optimism literature, however, tends to focus on
patients with traumatic chronic illness or mental illness (Eisner, et al., 2009; Johnson, et
al., 2009). There is room to build on the evidence with a different patient population,
namely, patients undergoing physical rehabilitation. Furthermore, there is room to explore
optimism in the context of a specifically arts-based intervention, over and above the
prescribed medical treatment.
For the past ten years, the Living Through the Arts program has successfully served
different demographic communities (e.g. seniors with dementia, homeless or low income
individuals, people with mental illnesses or intellectual disabilities) across Ontario. In
keeping with the Living Through the Arts program, the ARTS-REHAB Project will use a variety
of art forms and a curriculum of storytelling to help patients in rehabilitation imagine and
creatively express their path to recovery in a manner that promotes a strong sense of
personal capacity and meaning. More specifically, the curriculum for the ARTS-REHAB Project
arts program will consist of themes of health, recovery, and new identities that enable
patients to create new stories, shape their sense of purpose, and generate positive images
of the future.
The expected outcomes for participants in the arts program of the study include generating:
a greater increase in optimism for their recovery; a positive outlook for the future; and a
shorter length of stay in hospital when compared to patients who were not involved in the
arts program.
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Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
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