iBAILA - Investigating Brains & Activity to Improve Latino Aging

University of Illinois

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cognitive Impairment; Sedentary Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: BAILAMOS©

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04544358

2015-0497

Details and patient eligibility

About

Examine the impact of the BAILAMOS (TM) dance program on lifestyle physical activity

Full description

Examine the impact of the BAILAMOS (TM) dance program on lifestyle physical activity (PA). Hypothesis 1: Intervention group will demonstrate greater improvement in Lifestyle PA than controls. 2) Test the impact of BAILAMOS (TM) on cognitive function and quality of life. Hypothesis 2: Intervention group will demonstrate greater improvement in cognitive function and quality of life than controls. 3) Test the impact of BAILAMOS (TM) on brain network functional connectivity. Hypothesis 3: Intervention group will demonstrate enhanced Default Mode Network (DMN), Executive Network (EN), and sensorimotor network connectivity vis a vis controls.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age > 60 years;
• Latino/Hispanic;
• ability to speak Spanish;
• participation in <150 minutes/week of aerobic exercise;
• adequate cognitive status as assessed by the Mini Mental State Examination (>14/21);
• danced < 2 times/month over the past 12 months;
• willingness to be randomly assigned to treatment or control group;
• no plans to leave the U.S. > two weeks during the study.

Exclusion criteria

• uncontrolled cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus;
• pacemaker or metallic implants (infusion pumps, metal prostheses, metallic-backed transdermal patches or metallic shrapnel); - claustrophobia that precludes MRI;
• stroke within the past year;
• healing or unhealed fracture(s);
• hip or knee replacement within the past 6 months;
• heart failure;
• recurrent falls within the past year;
• regular use of a walker or wheelchair;
• weigh more than 300 pounds, as unable to fit into MRI. The EASY (Resnick et al., 2008) will be used to learn if physician consent is needed for program enrollment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

BAILAMOS©

Experimental group

Description:

BAILAMOS© includes a 4-month, twice-weekly dance program. The PI and a professional dance instructor co-developed an extensive BAILAMOS© Dance Manual and class-by-class schedule.

Treatment:

Behavioral: BAILAMOS©

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Randomized to wait list, received BAILAMOS© program after data collection.