Chinese Art Activities or Combined With Peer Group Participation on Psychological Well Being

Summary

The goal of this trial is to evaluate the effects of two interventions : routine care plus Chinese Art Activities(+CAA) and routine care plus Chinese Art Activities combined with Peer Group Participation (+CAA+PGP) on psychological well-being, loneliness, happiness, relaxation, and salivary cortisol levels in elderly participants (aged 60-85, new residents with ≤1 year of stay). The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does the +CAA intervention improve psychological well-being and related outcomes compared to routine care?
* Does the +CAA+PGP intervention provide additional benefits over +CAA alone? Researchers will compare three groups (Group A: +CAA, Group B: +CAA +PGP, Group C: routine care) to see if the interventions lead to immediate and sustained improvements in the measured outcomes.

Participants will:

* Undergo baseline assessments of psychological well-being(PWB), loneliness, happiness, relaxation, and salivary cortisol levels.
* Receive their assigned intervention over three sessions within one week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday).
* Complete outcome measures 30 minutes before and after each session.
* Participate in a final follow-up assessment one week after the last session to evaluate sustained effects.

Conditions

• Aging

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Chinese Art Activities

This activity based on Recreation therapy, aims to heal the psychological symptom cluster and enhance the PWB of the old Chinese transit to the elderly center. The activity follows the usual care during the process with the addition of Chinese art activities. It employed the following two main activities: (1) Traditional Chinese landscape painting; (2) Calligraphy. The activity will be conducted 50min by researchers. It can be conducted at hall, conference room, etc. in the elderly center (EC), and it is a group intervention

BEHAVIORAL

Chinese Art Activities combined with Peer Group Participation (PGP)

The activity follows the usual care during the process with the addition of Chinese art activities combined with Peer Group Participation. The activity will be conducted 80min by researchers. In groups of 5 people, after the painting and calligraphy activity, under the organization of peers, each group member will show their works and talk about their feelings and views on their works. They will also share the reasons why they chose these words or sentences. Everyone must say words of comfort and encouragement to others' work.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Prince of Songkla University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Liping Pu · Phd candidate of Faculty of Nursing Prince of Songkla University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

60 Years

Max Age

85 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-07-09

Primary Completion

2025-07-19

Completion

2025-08-09

Countries

• China

Study Locations