Status:
RECRUITING
Arts-based Social Prescribing for Mental Health
Lead Sponsor:
KAVADIA ELENI
Conditions:
Mental Health Issue
Anxiety Disorders
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This is a parallel-group randomised-controlled trial aiming to assess the effect of exposure to the arts on mental health and wellbeing of community dwelling recipients of mental health care. The tria...
Detailed Description
Design: This is a randomised controlled trial with two arms: art intervention (any of the arts interventions, see below), which is hereby called Active Group (AG) vs waitlist control (WL). This is a ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- The study will be advertised to public and private mental health professionals across Greece, including those in public hospitals, day care centres, and non-governmental and non-profit organisations. Clinicians will then refer potential participants to the study.
- Recipients of mental health care in the community, or private practice with an F-category ICD-10 diagnosis referred to the trial by their mental healthcare provider
- Age range: \>=18 years
- Being able to communicate effectively in order to provide answers to questionnaires that he/she/they will be asked to complete
- Being able to participate in the activity alone (unaccompanied, without a carer)
- Being able to answer the questionnaires
- Having legal capacity to consent
Exclusion
- Current substance abuse dependence,
- Current condition posing clinical risks (e.g. acute psychosis)
- Patients that are not compliant in following their medication plans,
- Patients that are not able attend due to severe physical, cognitive or other impairments
- Patients not "affiliated" with a mental health professional therapist.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2025
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
January 1 2026
Estimated Enrollment :
512 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT07137572
Start Date
September 1 2025
End Date
January 1 2026
Last Update
September 3 2025
Active Locations (1)
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The University Mental Health, Neurosciences and Precision Medicine Research Institute 'COSTAS STEFANIS' (UMHRI)
Athens, Greece, 11527