Effects of Music and Dance on Cognition, Frailty, and Burden in Elderly Caregivers Living in Rural Communities

NCT ID: NCT03068299

Last Updated: 2018-05-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 58 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2018-10-01

Brief Summary

This research aims to analyze the effects of senior dance on the cognition, frailty, and burden in elderly caregivers of rural communities. This is a randomized clinical trial to be conducted with a sample of 58 elderly caregivers residing in rural communities. Data collection will be performed in the homes of the elderly and/or in the dependencies of the Family Health units (USFs - primary health care systems). They will answer Socio-demographic characterization instrument, ACE-R Battery, and electroencephalography for cognitive evaluation, five Fragility criteria proposed by Fried et al and Zarit Burden Inventory. The dance protocol will be applied to the experimental group (n=29) in the USFs and the control group (n=29) will receive health care, including guidance on health care and practices. The protocols include 24 interventions, 60 minutes each, weekly, during 6 months. Analysis of effects comparisons will be conducted between groups and be comparing baseline with final measurements. Dance intervention is expected to exert important positive effects on all study variables (cognitive performance, fragility assessment, and caregiver burden), compared to the group. The intervention of the control group is expected to exert positive effects on some variables of the study (mainly, caregiver burden).

Detailed Description

Sample Variables above described of 58 participants will be measured. The participants will be randomized to the dance group (experimental) and to the health care guidance group (control). The group will be paired by age, sex, and schooling. This study focused on prevention of cognitive performance decline, frailty and burden.

Conditions

Cognitive Decline; Memory Loss; Frail Elderly Syndrome; Burden, Dependency

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Dance

n=29 participants randomized. Cognition performance, frailty and burden will be measured at baseline and after of interventions (6 months after baseline). Instruments of measurement described in Time Frame.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Dance

Intervention Type: OTHER

Sessions of sixty minutes each, which will take place weekly, totaling 24 weeks (6 months). Ten minutes from the start of each session will be reserved for initial exercises, with movements of the upper limbs, lower, accompanied by a motivational music. The process of identifying and memorizing the movements will be carried out as many times as the group deems necessary. The rhythms include combinations of circular and ballroom dances, including waltz, cha-cha-cha, cancan, among others. In all the sessions, the last fifteen minutes are reserved for a conversation about the dance learned/practiced in the day. It is expected to have reached the proposal of a practice of 15 different choreographies and that this was a pleasant moment for all the participants.

Health care guidance

n=29 participants randomized. Cognition performance, frailty and burden will be measured at baseline and after of interventions (6 months after baseline). Instruments of measurement described in Time Frame.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Health care guidance

Intervention Type: OTHER

Control group will receive attention, through guidelines for care and health practices for the caregiver and the elderly care recipient. This attention should occur in the same number of sessions of the dance and group intervention group. The control group should follow the same subdivision of the intervention group, in terms of the number of participants per subgroup. The subjects of the guidelines will be raised by the demand of the participants themselves and then worked in an interdisciplinary way.

Interventions

Dance

Sessions of sixty minutes each, which will take place weekly, totaling 24 weeks (6 months). Ten minutes from the start of each session will be reserved for initial exercises, with movements of the upper limbs, lower, accompanied by a motivational music. The process of identifying and memorizing the movements will be carried out as many times as the group deems necessary. The rhythms include combinations of circular and ballroom dances, including waltz, cha-cha-cha, cancan, among others. In all the sessions, the last fifteen minutes are reserved for a conversation about the dance learned/practiced in the day. It is expected to have reached the proposal of a practice of 15 different choreographies and that this was a pleasant moment for all the participants.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Health care guidance

Control group will receive attention, through guidelines for care and health practices for the caregiver and the elderly care recipient. This attention should occur in the same number of sessions of the dance and group intervention group. The control group should follow the same subdivision of the intervention group, in terms of the number of participants per subgroup. The subjects of the guidelines will be raised by the demand of the participants themselves and then worked in an interdisciplinary way.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. - Caregivers of elderly registered in Units of Family Health system in rural communities of São Carlos, Brazil.

2. - Over 60 years old.

3. - Living rural area.

Exclusion Criteria

1 - Sufficient sensory or language difficulties that impede the participation of the intervention and the measurement of the variables

• Minimum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 100 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Allan Gustavo Brigola

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Allan G Brigola, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Locations

Federal University of São Carlos

São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Brazil

Central Contacts

Allan G Brigola, Ph.D.

Role: CONTACT

allanbrig@gmail.com

+551633725782

Sofia CI Pavarini, Professor

Role: CONTACT

sofiapavarini@gmail.com

+55163306661

Facility Contacts

Sofia CI Pavarini, Professor

Role: primary

sofia@ufscar.br

551633066661

Study Documents

Document Type: Ethics Acceptance letter

Enter with number CAAE box (63133316.4.0000.5504) and access the official document of ethics acceptance letter of study.

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Other Identifiers

63133316.4.0000.5504

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id