Community Dance Program (CDP) for Older Adults

NCT ID: NCT05203848

Last Updated: 2024-10-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 54 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-09-09
• Study Completion Date: 2022-12-31

Brief Summary

Objectives:

The primary objective of the proposed project is to develop and evaluate a Community Dance Program (CDP) for community-dwelling older adults, which is aimed at promoting physical strength, balance, cognition, mental and psycho-social well-being of the older adults. A distinctive feature of our project is that a team of researchers across disciplines and community partners will collaborate to develop the program and bring benefits to the older adults living in the community.

Detailed Description

Research Design:

The research design consists of: (1) Development and implementation of CDP. A pilot cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted to assess the feasibility and primary effect of the program in enhancing the physical, mental, cognitive, and psycho-social health, quality of life, and social support among older adults. (2) Process Evaluation, follow-up focus group discussions will be conducted to assess the acceptability, strengths and limitations of CDP based on the participants' perspectives.

Data Collection and Analysis:

A set of questionnaires will be administered to the older adults. The data will be collected at two time points: baseline and 8-week follow-up. Descriptive statistics, Paired sample t-test, Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), General Linear Model (GLM) will be used to examine the difference between the baseline and post-intervention to compare outcome measures from pre to post-implementation. The audio-recorded focused group discussion will be transcribed verbatim respectively. Thematic analysis will be applied to provide an in-depth and rich analysis of the verbatim.

Potential Impact:

CDP will make a positive impact on the older adults' physical, mental and psychological wellbeing. Those impacts will then encourage older adults to live an active life and maximize their social capital within the community. Therefore, CDP promotes the health and wellbeing of the community-dwelling older adults and reduces geriatric-related conditions. The outcome of the study will have tremendous potential to be implemented at a larger scale in the community. Upon completion of the project, the investigators will work closely with community centres and senior activity centres to integrate CDP into their existing programs. CDP could then benefit a larger population given the evidence gathered from this research to enhance the physical, mental and psychological wellbeing of the older adults.

Conditions

Healthy Aging

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Dance program intervention

The community dance program (CDP) will be developed to promote older adults' physical and mental well-being through dancing. The contents of the program are developed based on the literature review (Rossberg-Gempton \& Poole, 2008). The CDP will be delivered over a period of 8 weeks.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Community Dance Intervention

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

The main dance instructor for the CDP is Yarra Ileto, who is the Artistic Director for NUS Dance Synergy. Yarra was trained at LASALLE College of the Arts, graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) Dance in 2008. Also, she has experience with crafting and conducting Community Dance Programs (CDP) for Seniors. Yarra will be developing the dance lesson plan and also training selected students from NUS Dance Synergy to guide the seniors during the dance sessions. Older adults will learn and practice the basic steps together for the first few weeks. Then, the student dance instructors will start teaching the dance formation. During each session, participants will need to warm up first to prevent injuries before practicing dance steps. Small group practicing is reserved for older adults to interact with each other. All the participants will do relaxation exercises before ending the session to cool down their bodies and release muscle tensions.

Control group

There will be no dance intervention among control group participants.

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Control group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Control group

Interventions

Community Dance Intervention

The main dance instructor for the CDP is Yarra Ileto, who is the Artistic Director for NUS Dance Synergy. Yarra was trained at LASALLE College of the Arts, graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) Dance in 2008. Also, she has experience with crafting and conducting Community Dance Programs (CDP) for Seniors. Yarra will be developing the dance lesson plan and also training selected students from NUS Dance Synergy to guide the seniors during the dance sessions. Older adults will learn and practice the basic steps together for the first few weeks. Then, the student dance instructors will start teaching the dance formation. During each session, participants will need to warm up first to prevent injuries before practicing dance steps. Small group practicing is reserved for older adults to interact with each other. All the participants will do relaxation exercises before ending the session to cool down their bodies and release muscle tensions.

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Control group

Control group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 55 to 85
• Able to understand and communicate in either English or Mandarin
• Able to give consent to participate (have sufficient mental capacity as assessed by the MoCA, with a score of 16 and above)
• Lives within the community setting
• Able to ambulate with minimal assistance
• Able to commit a total of 8 hours over the 8-week period dancing program

Exclusion Criteria

• Medical conditions which result in limitation of dancing
• Older adults with compromised balance and mobility (those who obtained a score of < 5 on the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB)
• Severe cognitive or psychiatric disorders
• Severe hearing or vision impairments
• Older adults from the control group who also participate in any other dance group during the intervention period
• Older adults who are uncomfortable with video-recording of the dance sessions

• Minimum Eligible Age: 55 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 85 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Lions Befrienders

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

National University of Singapore

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Vivien Xi WU, PhD

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

National University of Singapore

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Countries

Singapore

Other Identifiers

NUS-IRB-2020-808

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id