Influencing Adolescent Girls´ With Creative Dance Twice Weekly

NCT ID: NCT01523561

Last Updated: 2015-07-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE3
• Total Enrollment: 150 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2009-10-31
• Study Completion Date: 2013-01-31

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate if creative dance twice weekly can influence girls wellbeing. The focus lies on girls 13-18 years old that suffer from repeatedly psychosomatic problems and/or stress.

Specific objectives are

• To assess the effect of the dance intervention in reducing psychosomatic problems (such as pain in the head, neck, shoulder or stomach), stress and depression
• Determine which factors are important for continuing dancing and keeping up new habits
• A cost-effectiveness analyse of the health outcome.

Geographical area: Örebro County (population 276,000)

Detailed Description

The school nurses asked girls aged 13-18 years old, who searched for psychosomatic problems, if they wished to participate in the dance project. Recruitment of girls where also carried out in information about the project at parent meetings and in school classrooms. 143 girls completed the base-line questionnaire, 138 met the inclusion criteria and were included. Randomization was carried out to intervention and control group.

The quantitative data collection is carried out with a questionnaire. Participants in the dance intervention and the control group will response to this questionnaire at 7 times during the study, at start and every six months over a total period of 3 years.

Girls who are found to be at risk of having severe depression (> 34 points) in the depression scale CES-DC met with an experienced licensed psychologist. This was to explore if there was a need for extended support and help and the girl's parents and Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Care was contacted in most cases and if there was a risk for suicide. The results from the depression scale at base - line (CES-DC) showed that 81% of the girls in the study had depressive symptoms and 29% had high levels of depressive symptoms.

The qualitative interviews were performed in order to explore the girls experience of the dance lessons and to assess if and/or how dance intervention has affected her self-esteem in any way. These interviews were conducted on a strategic sample of 20 girls who participated in the dance intervention.

The dance intervention took place in a gym in Örebro twice weekly for a period of 1 year under the guidance of two dance class teachers (one at a time). The duration of the class was 75 minutes and the dance training was always carried out to popular and suitable music. The dance choreography was adjusted to the level of the participants' skills in order to make them feel successful in their exercise. During the intervention year, the theme of dance styles varied from hip hop, jazz, aerobic dance and contemporary dance. African dance, to the music of African drums, was used in the warm up section. The dance class always ended with a 10-min-relaxation training. The dance intervention had a strong focus on emphasizing the participants' resources and creates a feeling of affinity. The dance teachers encouraged them to listen to signals from the body, reducing focus on the performance and "become part of the movement".

Conditions

Adolescent - Emotional Problem

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

usual care

The participants in the no intervention group were informed that they should continue living as usual

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

dance intervention

The dance intervention took place twice weekly for a period of 1 year under the guidance of two dance class teachers. The duration of the class was 75 min. and the dance training was always carried out to popular music. The dance choreography was adjusted to the level of the participants' skills in order to make them feel successful in their exercise. During the intervention year, the theme of dance styles varied from hip hop, jazz and contemporary dance. African dance was used in the warm up section. The dance class always ended with a relaxation. The dance intervention had a focus on emphasizing the participants' resources and creates a feeling of affinity. Listening to signals from the body, reducing focus on the performance and "become part of the movement" was encouraged.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

dance group

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The dance intervention took place twice weekly for a period of 1 year under the guidance of two dance class teachers. The duration of the class was 75 min. and the dance training was always carried out to popular music. The dance choreography was adjusted to the level of the participants' skills in order to make them feel successful in their exercise. During the intervention year, the theme of dance styles varied from hip hop, jazz and contemporary dance. African dance was used in the warm up section. The dance class always ended with a relaxation. The dance intervention had a focus on emphasizing the participants' resources and creates a feeling of affinity. Listening to signals from the body, reducing focus on the performance and "become part of the movement" was encouraged.

Interventions

dance group

The dance intervention took place twice weekly for a period of 1 year under the guidance of two dance class teachers. The duration of the class was 75 min. and the dance training was always carried out to popular music. The dance choreography was adjusted to the level of the participants' skills in order to make them feel successful in their exercise. During the intervention year, the theme of dance styles varied from hip hop, jazz and contemporary dance. African dance was used in the warm up section. The dance class always ended with a relaxation. The dance intervention had a focus on emphasizing the participants' resources and creates a feeling of affinity. Listening to signals from the body, reducing focus on the performance and "become part of the movement" was encouraged.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• The study population comprised adolescent girls with internalizing problems who had recurrent visits to the school nurse due to psychosomatic symptoms such as:

• pain in the head, stomach, neck, back and/or shoulder.
• persistent feelings of tiredness
• being worried

Exclusion Criteria

• severe hearing impairment
• intellectual disability
• difficulties with the Swedish language or
• if the CAP had advised against participation.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 13 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Örebro County Council

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Margareta Moller

professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Margareta HL Moller, professor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Örebro County Council

Locations

Centre for health care Sciences

Örebro, Närke, Sweden

Countries

Sweden

References

Philipsson A, Duberg A, Moller M, Hagberg L. Cost-utility analysis of a dance intervention for adolescent girls with internalizing problems. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2013 Feb 20;11(1):4. doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-11-4.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 23425608 (View on PubMed)

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Other Identifiers

MMO027

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id