TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding the impact of visual arts interventions for people living with dementia
T2 - A realist review protocol
AU - Windle, Gill
AU - Gregory, Samantha
AU - Newman, Andrew
AU - Goulding, Anna
AU - O'Brien, Dave
AU - Parkinson, Clive
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported in this paper is part of a large programme of research titled ‘Dementia and Imagination’, funded as ‘Dementia and Imagination: Connecting Communities and Developing Well-being through Socially Engaged Visual Arts Practice’, Grant ref: AH/K00333X/1, by the AHRC and ESRC, as a part of the Cross-Council Connected Communities Programme (Principal Investigator G. Windle; Co-Investigators: A. Newman, C. Parkinson, V. Burholt, M. Baber, V. Tischler, B. Hounsome, D. O’Brien). For more information, see the website at Dementia Services Development Centre [http://dsdc.bangor. ac.uk/di-project.php.en].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Windle et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
PY - 2014/8/15
Y1 - 2014/8/15
N2 - Background: Arts-based activities are being increasingly suggested as a valuable activity for people living with dementia in terms of countering the negative aspects of their condition. The potential for such programmes to improve a broad range of psychosocial outcomes is suggested in some studies. However, there is largely an absence of rigorous methodology to demonstrate the benefits, and research results are mixed. Practice variability in terms of the content, contexts and implementation of such interventions raises challenges in terms of identifying an optimal arts programme model that could be adopted by other service providers. Understanding how interventions may have the best chance at broad implementation success and uptake is limited.Methods/Design: A realist review will be undertaken. This aims to understand how visual arts interventions influence outcomes in people living with dementia. The review will explore how the context, that is the circumstances which enable or constrain, affect outcomes through the activation of mechanisms. An early scoping search and a stakeholder survey formulated the preliminary programme theory. A systematic literature search across a broad range of disciplines (arts, humanities, social sciences, health) will be undertaken to identify journal articles and grey literature. Data will be extracted in relation to the programme theory, contextual factors, mechanisms and outcomes and their configurations, background information about the study design and participant characteristics, detail about the quantity ('dose') of an intervention, theoretical perspectives proposed by the authors of the paper and further theorising by the reviewer. Thematic connections/patterns will be sought across the extracted data, identifying patterns amongst contextual factors, the mechanisms they trigger and the associated outcomes.Discussion: Along with stakeholder engagement and validation, this review will help inform the development of an optimal, replicable arts intervention for people with dementia as part of our broader research programme, titled 'Dementia and Imagination' (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council). Forthcoming work under this programme of research will test this theoretically informed intervention in three different geographical areas of the UK. The production of freely available practice guidance is a key aspect of dissemination. Trial registration: PROSPERO registration number CRD42014008702.
AB - Background: Arts-based activities are being increasingly suggested as a valuable activity for people living with dementia in terms of countering the negative aspects of their condition. The potential for such programmes to improve a broad range of psychosocial outcomes is suggested in some studies. However, there is largely an absence of rigorous methodology to demonstrate the benefits, and research results are mixed. Practice variability in terms of the content, contexts and implementation of such interventions raises challenges in terms of identifying an optimal arts programme model that could be adopted by other service providers. Understanding how interventions may have the best chance at broad implementation success and uptake is limited.Methods/Design: A realist review will be undertaken. This aims to understand how visual arts interventions influence outcomes in people living with dementia. The review will explore how the context, that is the circumstances which enable or constrain, affect outcomes through the activation of mechanisms. An early scoping search and a stakeholder survey formulated the preliminary programme theory. A systematic literature search across a broad range of disciplines (arts, humanities, social sciences, health) will be undertaken to identify journal articles and grey literature. Data will be extracted in relation to the programme theory, contextual factors, mechanisms and outcomes and their configurations, background information about the study design and participant characteristics, detail about the quantity ('dose') of an intervention, theoretical perspectives proposed by the authors of the paper and further theorising by the reviewer. Thematic connections/patterns will be sought across the extracted data, identifying patterns amongst contextual factors, the mechanisms they trigger and the associated outcomes.Discussion: Along with stakeholder engagement and validation, this review will help inform the development of an optimal, replicable arts intervention for people with dementia as part of our broader research programme, titled 'Dementia and Imagination' (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council). Forthcoming work under this programme of research will test this theoretically informed intervention in three different geographical areas of the UK. The production of freely available practice guidance is a key aspect of dissemination. Trial registration: PROSPERO registration number CRD42014008702.
KW - Art interventions
KW - Art programmes
KW - Creative activities
KW - Dementia
KW - Imagination
KW - Realist review
KW - Realist synthesis
KW - Visual art
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84928044176&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/2046-4053-3-91
DO - 10.1186/2046-4053-3-91
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25128286
AN - SCOPUS:84928044176
SN - 2046-4053
VL - 3
JO - Systematic Reviews
JF - Systematic Reviews
IS - 1
M1 - 91
ER -