Benefits of Digital Dance Game by Older Adults

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aged

Treatments: Device: Dance somatosensory game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05411042

YM108123F_D

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to examine the clinical efficacy of dancing somatosensory videogames in improving physical health, cognitive performance, happiness, laboratory biomarkers, and structural brain imaging (magnetic resonance imaging, MRI) by a randomized controlled trial design, and hopefully to expand the scope of healthy aging intervention activities with strong scientific evidence.

Full description

This randomized controlled trial followed the CONSORT guidelines to compare the clinical efficacy of the intervention group with the control group. The intervention group and control group were randomly allocated (1:1) with no stratification. The intervention group received the dance somatosensory videogame (DSG) training program at the community health center, which consisted of two 30-minute sessions per week for 6 months. The control group were provided with health education for healthy aging and were followed by telephone survey for their daily activities every month during the study period.

The primary outcome of the trial was changes of gray matter volume of the brain done by 3T brain magnetic resonance imaging during the study period. The secondary outcomes included cognitive performance, quality of life, physical activities, resilience, and demoralization. For all outcome variables, the measurements at the baseline and 6-month follow-up were examined by a random intercept and a fixed slope, and the effect of the intervention was estimated by using the Generalized Estimating Equation.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55 to 76 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age ≥ 55 years old.
2. More than 6 years of formal education.
3. Can communicate in Mandarin and Taiwanese.
4. Can accept MRI examination without claustrophobia.
5. Can understand the research process, meet the requirements of the research, and can sign the consent form and participate in the subject.

Exclusion criteria

1. Have engaged in any video dancing games in the past three months.
2. Engaged in video dancing games more than three times per year in the past three years.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group intervened a dance somatosensory game (DSG), DANZ BASE developed by International Games System Company, at the Xinzhuang health center, which is a local bureau with outpatient clinic. The participants in experimental group played twice a week, each time requiring at least lasting 30 minutes, for half of a year.

Treatment:

Device: Dance somatosensory game

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group only performed routine data collection; the research assistant asked the subjects about their usual activities by telephone every month to understand their physical activity in this half of the year.