danceSing Care Evaluation: Testing the Effectiveness

University of Stirling

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging; Quality of Life; Depression, Anxiety; Older Adults; Stress, Physiological; Healthy Aging

Treatments: Behavioral: danceSing Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05601102

dC 3735

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot randomised controlled trial aims to compare the effectiveness of a 12-week music and movement intervention in older adults in care homes compared to a waitlist control group.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Do salivary cortisol and DHEAS levels improve after the intervention, compared to the waitlist control group?
• Do feelings of anxiety and depression improve after the intervention, compared to the waitlist control group?
• Does the quality of life improve after the intervention, compared to the waitlist control group?
• Does physical function improve after the intervention, compared to the waitlist control group?

Participants will engage in music and movement sessions three times per week for 12 weeks. Researchers will compare the intervention group to the waitlist control group to see if any effects occur.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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 as assessed by care staff and confirmed in discussion about the project with the research team using the British Psychological Society capacity checklist

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 adequately understand written/spoken English to participate in the measures and intervention (e.g., due to cognitive or sensory impairment).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The programme was a digital movement and music programme with resources from danceSing Care (https://dancesingcare.uk/) and consisted of two movement sessions and one music session each week, 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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: danceSing Care

Waitlist control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Waitlist for 12 weeks before participating in the digital movement and music programme with resources from danceSing Care (https://dancesingcare.uk/).