Creative Dance Effects on Community-dwelling Older Adults

NCT ID: NCT04311931

Last Updated: 2024-03-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 38 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-03-01
• Study Completion Date: 2020-06-30

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

Community-dwelling Older Adults

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Experimental Creative Dance group

The experimental group intervention will attend the creative dance program. The program integrates 3 sessions / week of 60 minutes on alternated days.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Active Dance Program

Intervention Type: OTHER

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).

Control group

The control group will maintain the usually daily activities, not attending any exercise program.

After study end, the control group will have the opportunity to participate on an exercise program.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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.

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

Sponsors

Departamento de Desporto e Saúde, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Comprehensive Health Research Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Horizon 2020 - Portugal 2020 (ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-000007 - Project: ESACA)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Évora

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ana Cruz-Ferreira

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Ana Cruz-Ferreira, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Évora

Locations

Ana Cruz-Ferreira

Evora, , Portugal

Countries

Portugal

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Other Identifiers

UEvora Dance 2020

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id