danceSing Care Evaluation: Testing the Feasibility

NCT ID: NCT05559203

Last Updated: 2025-08-03

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 47 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-11-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-06-01

Brief Summary

• The investigators wanted to find out if digital music and movement resources could be delivered in care homes. They rolled out a 12-week programme to 10 care homes and had 47 care home residents participate in the research.
• The investigators also wanted to find out under what circumstances the digital music and movement resources would be most effective for the health and wellbeing of the care home residents.
• A survey measuring the number of falls in the past three months, activities of daily living and health, psychosocial wellbeing (anxiety, depression, stress and loneliness), sleep satisfaction and frailty measures such as appetite and weight loss) was completed before and after the intervention. Also, interviews with residents and focus groups with staff were done after the intervention to find out how they felt about the programme.

Detailed Description

The specific research objectives were to evaluate the following topics:

1. Feasibility: was the activity implemented and/or delivered as planned? Were the resources suitable for this setting? Were adherence rates at an acceptable level?

2. Context: what is the role of the care homes in providing resources to the Activity Coordinators (ACs)? In what circumstances would the programme have worked most efficiently? What were the potential barriers for care homes or ACs to provide these resources?

3. Mechanism: what underlying mechanisms made the danceSing Care programme work (or not)? Was it the situational context or the programme context?

4. Outcome: What were the results? Were the outcomes adequate and realistic for this programme?

5. Moderators: were moderating factors responsible? By moderating factors, we are referring to contextual factors that are out of the program's control but may help or hinder the achievement of the outcomes.

Conditions

Aged; Older Adults; Healthy Aging; Aging

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention group

Digital music and movement resources.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

danceSing Care

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The programme was a digital movement and music programme with resources from danceSing Care and consisted of three movement sessions and one music session each week, the recommended dose agreed between danceSing Care and the Advisory group, each lasting about 20 minutes. Also, the danceSing care resources were designed to suit older adults with physical and cognitive impairments (residents with mobility aids and/or dementia). Movement sessions included chair and standing fitness, which started with a warm-up and finished with stretching exercises. Sessions were managed and supervised by care home activity coordinators.

Interventions

danceSing Care

The programme was a digital movement and music programme with resources from danceSing Care and consisted of three movement sessions and one music session each week, the recommended dose agreed between danceSing Care and the Advisory group, each lasting about 20 minutes. Also, the danceSing care resources were designed to suit older adults with physical and cognitive impairments (residents with mobility aids and/or dementia). Movement sessions included chair and standing fitness, which started with a warm-up and finished with stretching exercises. Sessions were managed and supervised by care home activity coordinators.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• residents in care homes ≥ 65 years,
• able to complete 12 weeks of a movement and music program,
• having the capacity to give informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

• currently taking part in any other clinical trial which could potentially have an impact upon or influence the findings of the current study,
• pre-existing conditions or concurrent diagnoses which would profoundly impact their capacity to undergo the intervention, even once adaptations have been made,
• inability to understand written/spoken English adequately to participate in the measures and intervention (e.g., due to cognitive or sensory impairment).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Stirling

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Anna Whittaker

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Anna Whittaker

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Stirling

Locations

Balhousie Care Group

Perth, , United Kingdom

Countries

United Kingdom

References

Ofosu EF, De Nys L, Connelly J, Ryde GC, Whittaker AC. A realist evaluation of the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial of a digital music and movement intervention for older people living in care homes. BMC Geriatr. 2023 Mar 6;23(1):125. doi: 10.1186/s12877-023-03794-5.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 36879201 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

View Document

Document Type: Informed Consent Form

View Document

Other Identifiers

NICR 3735

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id