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

N/A

Waitlist Available

Research Sponsored by University of California, Davis

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

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Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up post-intervention (immediately)/day 1

Awards & highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

This trialtests if looking at art in a virtual museum can reduce pain; participants will visit galleries with and without art, some are primed to feel socially connected.

Eligible Conditions

Chronic Pain
Social Isolation

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ post-intervention (immediately)/day 1

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~post-intervention (immediately)/day 1

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and post-intervention (immediately)/day 1 for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

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Primary study objectives

Social disconnection

Secondary study objectives

Change in pain during intervention

Pain intensity

Pain unpleasantness

+5 more

Other study objectives

Museum Visit Data - Object Interaction

Museum visit data - User Movement

Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

5Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Artwork present + social connection lowExperimental Treatment2 Interventions

Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of low social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with artwork for 10 minutes

Group II: Artwork present + social connection highExperimental Treatment2 Interventions

Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of high social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with artwork for 10 minutes

Group III: Artwork absent + social connection highExperimental Treatment2 Interventions

Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of high social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with no artwork for 10 minutes

Group IV: Artwork absent + social connection lowActive Control2 Interventions

Individuals participate in an exercise to prime a feeling of low social connection and then explore a virtual museum exhibit with no artwork for 10 minutes

Group V: Hanging control groupActive Control1 Intervention

Individuals will receive no exposure to any independent variables (i.e. artwork: present or absent; social connection prime: high or low) for 10 minutes before completing their final survey.

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

Artwork present

2022

N/A

~320

Social connection high

2022

N/A

~320