Integration of Social Art Activities and Qigong for Older People in Nursing Home in Indonesia

Summary

This project will be a randomised controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness of an integrated programme by using social art activity (SA) and exercise, for instance, Qigong (QG, a traditional Chinese exercise) as a therapeutic medium.

This integrated programme aims to increase the well-being and reduce the depressive symptoms that are frequently ascertained in older people who live in nursing homes. The combination of SA and QG might be more beneficial to older people than either individual activity on its own, given that they are addressing different areas of functioning. The art activity focuses on self-expression in non-verbal activity using fine motor movement, whereas physical exercise like Qigong focuses on awareness of breathing and a calm state of mind. This is to help the older person achieve mental and physical relaxation by using gross motor movement. When the interventions are combined by utilising Qigong ahead of the art activities (thus, including both fine and gross motor movements) older people will reach a state of mental and physical relaxation, and moreover, will be able to express their feelings more simply in the social art activities.

Conditions

• Well-being
• Depressive Symptoms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Qigong and art activities

Participants join a 90-minute session of integrated Qigong and art activity consisting of 30 minutes Qigong followed by 60 minutes art activity.

BEHAVIORAL

Art activities

Participants join a 90-minute session that consists of 60-minute art activities followed by 30 minutes daily activities.

BEHAVIORAL

Qigong

Participants join a 90-minute session that consists of 30-minutes Qigong exercise followed by 60 minutes daily activities (watching television, reading or sitting together).

BEHAVIORAL

Daily activities

Participants do their daily activities routine for 90-minutes, such as watching television, reading and sitting together or participants can do free individual activities on their own.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universitas Tarumanagara

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Radboud University Medical Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Roswiyani Roswiyani, M.Psi · Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands; and Tarumanagara University, Jakarta, Indonesia

• Jan Spijker, Prof. dr. · Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands, and Pro Persona Mental Health Care, Depression Expertise Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

• Cilia Witteman, Prof. dr. · Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

50 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-01-31

Primary Completion

2017-11-30

Completion

2017-12-31

Countries

• Indonesia

Study Locations