Smart Taiko-Drum Playing for Older Adults With Cognitive Frailty

Cognitive Impairment Clinical Trial

Official title: Smart Taiko-Drum Playing for Older Adults With Cognitive Frailty for Improving Cognitive and Physical Functions: A Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective of this randomised controlled feasibility trial is to evaluate the feasibility of the Smart Taiko Drum-playing intervention embedding the cognitive-motor dual-task training concept for older adults with cognitive frailty, and identify the preliminary efficacy of the intervention on cognitive and physical functions and frailty status.

Clinical Trial Description

1. Study design:

• Randomized Control Trial

2. Participants:

• Community-dwelling older adults with cognitive frailty

3. Setting:

• Community centres for seniors

4. Intervention

• Playing Smart Taiko three times/weeks x 16 weeks for 30 - 45 minutes each session

• A Smart Taiko Drumming system has been developed for older adults to play the drumming game with their preferred music genres.

5. Waitlist-control group

• Will receive usual care

6. Health outcomes that will be assessed three times at baseline, during (8th week) and immediate post-intervention (16th week)

• cognitive functions

• physical functions

• mental health

• physical frailty status

• body composition

7. Feasibility evaluation

• recruitment

• retention

• satisfactory survey

• compliance with the survey

• safety

• focus group intervention with participants ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cognitive Impairment
• Frailty

• NCT number: NCT06115889
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Contact: Daphne Sze Ki Cheung, PhD
• Phone: 27664534
• Email: daphne.cheung@polyu.edu.hk
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2024
• Completion date: June 30, 2025