NCT07137572Completed
Arts-based Social Prescribing for Mental Health
Arts-based Social Prescribing for Mental Health in Adults With Psychiatric Diagnoses
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a parallel-group randomised-controlled trial aiming to assess the effect of exposure to the arts on mental health and wellbeing of community dwelling recipients of mental health care. The trial constitutes a comparison of two arms: An Art Intervention arm, hereby the Active Group (AG), versus a waitlist control arm (WL).
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 541 (actual)
- First submitted
- 15 Aug 2025
- Start date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Primary completion date
- 25 Feb 2026
- Lead sponsor
- KAVADIA ELENI
- Diseases
- Schizophrenia, Autism
- NCT number
- NCT07137572
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 541
- From 4 Sept 2025 to the primary completion date, 25 Feb 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Patients that are not compliant in following their medication plans,
Other illness
- Current condition posing clinical risks (e.g. acute psychosis)
Other
- Current substance abuse dependence,
- Patients that are not able attend due to severe physical, cognitive or other impairments
- Patients not "affiliated" with a mental health professional therapist.
Who the study is looking for
- Recipients of mental health care in the community, or private practice with an F-category ICD-10 diagnosis referred to the trial by their mental healthcare provider
- Age range: \>=18 years
- Being able to communicate effectively in order to provide answers to questionnaires that he/she/they will be asked to complete
- Being able to participate in the activity alone (unaccompanied, without a carer)
- Being able to answer the questionnaires
- Having legal capacity to consent
Criteria the registry did not label
- The study will be advertised to public and private mental health professionals across Greece, including those in public hospitals, day care centres, and non-governmental and non-profit organisations. Clinicians will then refer potential participants to the study.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University Mental Health, Neurosciences and Precision Medicine Research Institute 'COSTAS STEFANIS' (UMHRI) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Athens | Greece | Unknown status |
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