Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop: Improve Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge

Columbia University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Behavioral: Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop; Behavioral: My Plate

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03284112

AAAR5473

5R01AG054536 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the knowledge of parents and children with respect to dementia symptoms, risk factors, and response before and after an interactive dementia education program that uses music and dance to enhance a health education curriculum at 1-week and 3-months after the intervention.

Full description

Public awareness of cardinal Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms remains low. Adults often underestimate personal dementia risk; minority populations are more likely to have low dementia literacy and be unaware of it. Cultural dementia belief in minority groups are complex and pose barriers to diagnosis, with dementia symptoms being considered a part of normal aging, or that discussion may be taboo even when recognized. A key barrier to timely AD diagnosis in African Americans is delayed physician contact, often years-long, following the onset of first symptoms. Despite studies demonstrating that dementia concepts first develop in elementary school periods, apart from our work, no dementia awareness programs focus on children. This intervention therefore addresses a major gap regarding optimal approaches for shifting cultural perceptions of dementia in low-income minority populations and reducing barriers to its timely diagnosis.

All R01 aims have been completed in this study.

Enrollment: 2,244 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 4th and 5th-grade children (ages 9-11y) and their parents (age > 20 years).
• Selected New York City public schools with similar socio-demographic composition.

Exclusion criteria

• Schools have already received pilot OSHH and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programming.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,244 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

School population without the Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop program, but with the My Plate program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: My Plate

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

School population with the Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop