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Can Exposure to Inclusive Virtual Art Decrease Pain and Social Disconnection Among Individuals Living With Chronic Pain?

NCT05310747 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 311

Last updated 2025-04-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The proposed study is an experimental intervention to test for the effects of exposure to art by means of a virtual museum visit. It examines the fundamental question of whether exposure to virtual art can alleviate pain. Google Arts \& Culture has digitized the collections of over 2,000 museums, art galleries, and other cultural institutions. The platform is free and allows 'visitors' to explore art from around the world. For this study, the PIs have chosen artwork from this collection and created a virtual museum gallery such that research participants will visit the museum with or without art (i.e., we will remove all art from the virtual galleries). In addition, we hypothesize that individuals primed to experience social connection prior to art exposure will experience lower perceived social disconnection and pain than those who are not primed.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Artwork present

A virtual museum exhibit with a curated selection of artworks

BEHAVIORAL

Artwork absent

The same virtual museum exhibit space as the 'Artwork present' condition but with all of the artworks removed from the walls

BEHAVIORAL

Social connection high

Participants will identify a person from their life that makes them feel socially connected and then write (1) about that person and (2) an experience they had with that person that made them feel socially connected.

BEHAVIORAL

Social connection low

Participants will identify a person from their life that makes them feel socially disconnected and then write (1) about that person and (2) an experience they had with that person that made them feel socially disconnected.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of California, Davis

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-07
Primary Completion
2023-01-06
Completion
2023-01-06

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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