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| Id | 177 | |
| Author | Thomson, L. J. M.; Chatterjee, H. J. | |
| Title | Well-Being With Objects: Evaluating a Museum ObjectHandling Intervention for Older Adults in Health Care Settings | |
| Reference | Thomson, L. J. M., & Chatterjee, H. J. (2016). Well-Being With Objects: Evaluating a Museum Object-Handling Intervention for Older Adults in Health Care Settings. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 35(3), 349–362. |
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| Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0733464814558267 |
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| Abstract | The research objective was to conduct museum object handling with older adults in differing health care settings and measure therapeutic benefits using valid and reliable clinical scales. Previous quantitative research into museum interventions found well-being improvements in acute and elderly (Thomson, Ander, Lanceley, et al., 2012) and residential care (Thomson, Ander, Menon, et al., 2012), but participants from psychiatric care were not included in the studies. The current study compared older adults receiving psychiatric care with those in acute and elderly and residential settings. Findings showed increased positive emotion and wellness for acute and elderly and residential though not psychiatric care and increased happiness and decreased negative emotion for all settings. Participants were not diagnosed with dementia as in the Camic et al. (2014) and Eeckelaar et al. (2012) studies but analysis of audio recordings implied similar cognitive gains of enhanced confidence, social interaction, and learning. The study allowed people who would not otherwise have engaged with museums to benefit from access to museum objects albeit the intervention only measured short-term gain. It is recommended that a longitudinal study taking measures over several weeks is conducted within a randomized controlled trial to endorse the current findings. |
The research objective was to conduct museum object handling with older adults in differing health care settings and measure therapeutic benefits using valid and reliable clinical scales. although museums have sufficient means to embrace individual and societal well- being their contribution should be supported by appropriate research to quantify the therapeutic impact of museum-focused interventions chatterjee & noble.a review and trial of clinical scales of well-being quality of life qol and health status thomson ander menon lanceley & chatterjee found that optimum measures for museum-focused health care interventions were the positive affect and negative affect schedule panas; watson clark & tellegen and visual analogue scale vas; euroqol group. research with female participants receiving cancer care demonstrated enhanced well-being for tactile over visual interventions using the same mea- sures thomson ander lanceley menon & chatterjee. participants read infor- mation leaflets signed consent forms washed hands soap or alcohol gel and completed presession measures. thematic analysis revealed potential reasons why acute and elderly care settings showed well-being improvements; partici- pants asked questions engaged in meaningful conversation held amulets they wanted to keep and spontaneously commented on the value of object handling.
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