The Impact of Dancing in Parkinson's Disease

NCT ID: NCT05175365

Last Updated: 2022-07-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 68 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-01-31

Brief Summary

This clinical study intends to confirm the results of previous studies showing the positive effect of dance on patients with Parkinson's disease on both mental and physical health via a randomized controlled trial. Patients will be randomized into the intervention group (dance courses in addition to standard care) or in the control group (standard care).

Detailed Description

This is a clinical study on the benefits of dance in Parkinson's disease. In recent years, dance has become an interesting strategy to promote motor and non-motor functions in Parkinson's disease. More than a rehabilitation strategy, dance appears to be an optimal approach to promote functional outcomes as it combines physical, rhythmic, cognitive, emotional and social elements that could have a positive impact on multiple impairments in Parkinson's disease. The investigators believe that the notion of pleasure is crucial for rehabilitation, especially in people suffering from depression, and that it is often not taken into account in conventional rehabilitation strategies.

The goal of the present study is to confirm these preliminary results. This clinical study will run over two years, from January 2022 to January 2024, but an experimental session will last 4 months. The aim of this protocol is to better characterize the impact of dance on well-being, disease progression and possible neuronal reorganization in patients with Parkinson's disease. A better quality of life, a higher level of satisfaction and an improvement in functional status are expected in the experimental group.

During this study, three examinations will be carried out over 4 months. One at the start of the study, one at mid-term (after 8 weeks) and one at the end of the study. These evaluations will take place at the place of the dance lessons for the experimental group and within the university hospital for the control group.

Assessment will be done through different scales and questionnaires to assess well-being, satisfaction, feelings of happiness, functional status, cognitive functions and the correlation between functional and cognitive progress and neuronal activity.

This study is a "controlled and randomized" study that is to say that in a random manner, half of the participants will participate in weekly dance sessions lasting 60 minutes in addition to their conventional physiotherapy sessions while the control group will only receive conventional physiotherapy sessions during the first 4 months but will still benefit from dance sessions after the 4 months of evaluation.

Conditions

Parkinson Disease

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Dance

Patients allocated to this group will attend dance classes for patients with Parkinson's disease given once a week over a 4-month period for a total of 16 dance sessions.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Dance

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Each session consists of a 60-minute dance class taught by a professional dancer. Dance classes begin with a seated warm-up with various coordination, rhythm, range of motion, memorization and coordination exercises. The level of difficulty of the exercises increases as the sessions progress. Balance is also an important part of training as well as the feeling of being part of a group, of interacting with each other. The hour ends with stretching in a sitting position.

Control

The control group will receive its rehabilitation care.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Dance

Each session consists of a 60-minute dance class taught by a professional dancer. Dance classes begin with a seated warm-up with various coordination, rhythm, range of motion, memorization and coordination exercises. The level of difficulty of the exercises increases as the sessions progress. Balance is also an important part of training as well as the feeling of being part of a group, of interacting with each other. The hour ends with stretching in a sitting position.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patient with Parkinson's disease
• Hoehn & Yahr Stadium <3
• Signature of the written consent form

Exclusion Criteria

• No cardiac or respiratory or neurological or rheumatological disease incompatible with the practice of a physical activity
• Has not had any surgery interfering with motor function in the past 6 months
• Has no cognitive impairment - MoCA <26
• Does not present hearing problems that do not all

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Kinésiphilia

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Helena Cassol

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Site Ourthe-Amblève - CHU de Liège

Esneux, Liège, Belgium

Site Status: RECRUITING

CNRF

Tinlot, Liège, Belgium

Site Status: RECRUITING

CHU de Liège site Sart-Tilman

Liège, , Belgium

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Belgium

Central Contacts

Helena Cassol, PhD

Role: CONTACT

hcassol@chuliege.be

+32475474128 ext. +32

Olivier Bouquiaux, MD

Role: CONTACT

olivier.bouquiaux@chuliege.be

+32495501576 ext. +32

Facility Contacts

Helena Cassol, PhD

Role: primary

hcassol@chuliege.be

+32475474128 ext. +32

Olivier Bouquiaux, MD

Role: backup

olivier.bouquiaux@chuliege.be

0495501576 ext. +32

Helena Cassol, PhD

Role: primary

hcassol@chuliege.be

0475474128 ext. +32

Olivier Bouquiaux, MD

Role: backup

olivier.bouquiaux@chuliege.be

0495501576 ext. +32

Helena Cassol, PhD

Role: primary

hcassol@chuliege.be

+32475474128 ext. +32

Olivier Bouquiaux, MD

Role: backup

olivier.bouquiaux@chuliege.be

0495501576 ext. +32

Other Identifiers

2021-313

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id