Creative Dance Effects on Community-dwelling Older Adults

Community-dwelling Older Adults Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of a Creative Dance Program on Well-being, Physical Function, Body Awareness, and Rhythm Perception and Reproduction of Community-dwelling Older Adults

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04311931
• Other study ID #: UEvora Dance 2020
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: University of Évora
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of present study is to analyze the effect of a Creative Dance program on well-being, physical function, body awareness, and rhythm perception and reproduction of community-dwelling older adults. This quasi-experimental study is a controlled trial.

Participants will be allocated to two groups: experimental group (who attend the Creative Dance program) and control group (who maintain usual activity).

The Creative Dance program will run for 12 weeks (3 sessions/week of 60 minutes).

Participants will be assessed 1) at baseline and at 2) at 12 weeks.

Description:

An healthspan life obey older adults to adhere to an active ageing lifestyle because it combat the natural cognitive and physical losses associated with ageing (1-3). Exercise programs have shown to be effective interventions for healthspan (2) and its attendance is high recommended by health organizations (4). Several studies have analyzed the beneficial effects of exercise programs on physical and cognitive performance of older adults, and they concluded that multimodal programs involving both physical and cognitive stimulation are more benefic than single physical or cognitive program interventions (5). Dance involves both physical and cognitive stimulation, since the participants are engaged physical, intellectually, and emotionally tasks(6). Dance explore the movement elements (body, space, time, dynamic, and relationships) and particularly the Creative Dance explore it through tasks that allow the participants to create their own movements and express ideas and feelings through body language (7). In Creative dance, tasks can be simplified according to specificities/limitations of participants and considering a holist approach (6). This dance do not require any dance technique or prior training, and promote socioemotional interactions, stimulating positive feelings, joy, and pleasure; furthermore, is a safe practice, not requiring expensive resources (6). For these reasons, Creative Dance is becoming gradually recommended for older people by investigators (6-9). In fact, Creative Dance seems to increase proprioception (8), several physical fitness parameters (7, 9), mobility (9) and life satisfaction (7) of older people. Thus, although there are only few studies in Creative Dance for older adults, this form of dance seems to be a pertinent practice to revert their usual process of loss and decline of motor and mental skills (6). We hypnotized, that a Creative Dance program may contribute to the community-dwelling older adults' healthspan, particularly we hypnotized that such program may induce improvements on physical fitness, on body awareness, and on rhythm perception and reproduction, as well to promote improvements on well-being indicators.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 38
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: March 15, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants aged =60 years;

• Community-dwelling older adults living independently.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Presence of cognitive impairment (Mini-Mental State Examination) (11);

• Presence of motor impairment, neurological problems or diseases compromising the program participation;

• Participation in regular physical exercise during the previous 6 months;

• Unavailability to participate in the program.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Community-dwelling Older Adults

Intervention

Other:
• Active Dance Program
All Creative Dance sessions comprised five phases: 1) opening ritual (5 min), in which participants will be welcomed and will be informed about the objectives and structure of the session; 2) warm-up (15 min), in which body muscle groups will be activated through the introduction of basics elements of movement; 3) main phase (30 min), will be proposed individual, pair and group activities, in order to achieve the objectives described above. This phase will end with a choreography composition; 4) cool-down (5 min) with stretching and physiological parameters normalization; and 5) ending ritual (5 min), in which the participants will be invented to share their sessions' experience and they will fill a sheet with attendance, exercise intensity perception (Borg Scale) and satisfaction's (Caregiver Treatment Satisfaction questionnaire).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Portugal	Ana Cruz-Ferreira	Évora

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Évora	Comprehensive Health Research Center, Departamento de Desporto e Saúde, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, Horizon 2020 - Portugal 2020 (ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-000007 - Project: ESACA)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Portugal, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Life satisfaction	Change from Baseline, between and within groups comparison, in well-being outcome measure Life Satisfaction assessed by Satisfaction With Life Scale, ranging from 5 (worst) to 25 (best) points (10), Portuguese version (11).	[ 0, 12 weeks]
Primary	Affects	Change from Baseline, between and within groups comparison, in well-being outcome measure Positive Affects assessed by Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), ranging from 10 (worst) to 50 (best) points (12), Portuguese version (13).	[ 0, 12 weeks]
Primary	Affects	Change from Baseline, between and within groups comparison, in well-being outcome measure Negative Affects assessed by Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), ranging from 10 (best) to 50 (worst) points (12), Portuguese version (13).	[ 0, 12 weeks]
Primary	Depressive Status	Change from Baseline, between and within groups comparison, in well-being outcome measure Depressive Status assessed by the Short Form of Geriatric Depression Scale, ranging from 0 (best) to 15 (worst) points (14), Portuguese version (15).	[ 0, 12 weeks]
Primary	Balance	Change from Baseline, between and within groups comparison, in Physical Fitness outcome measure Balance assessed by the Fullerton Advanced Balance Scale, ranging from 0 (worst) to 40 (best) points (16, 17).	[ 0, 12 weeks]
Primary	Agility	Change from Baseline, between and within groups comparison, in Physical Fitness outcome measure Agility and Balance assessed by Timed Up and Go test (18).	[ 0, 12 weeks]
Primary	Coordination	Change from Baseline, between and within groups comparison, in Physical Fitness outcome measure Coordination assessed by an adapted form for older adults of the "Rhythm Test de Evaluación de la Habilidad Motora" from Ortega and Blázquez, ranging from 3 (worst) to 12 (best) points (19) while counting backward by one from 100.	[ 0, 12 weeks]
Primary	Rhythm perception and reproduction	Change from Baseline, between and within groups comparison, in rhythm perception and reproduction assessed by an adapted form for older adults of the "Rhythm Test of Batterie d'évaluations des fonctions neuro-psychomotrices", ranging from 0 (worst) to 6 (best) points (20)(21).	[ 0, 12 weeks]
Primary	Body Awareness	Change from Baseline, between and within groups comparison, in Body Awareness assessed by the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (22), ranging from 0 (worst) to 165 (best) points, Portuguese version (23).	[ 0, 12 weeks]