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Community Choirs To Promote Healthy Aging; Community of Voices Chorus

NCT01869179 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 390

Last updated 2020-01-18

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Summary

The investigators will recruit 450 older adults and will utilize 12 Administration on Aging (AoA)-supported senior centers to implement a multisite, cluster randomized (by center), wait-list clinical trial. Centers will be randomized to receive the choir program immediately (intervention group) or after a 6-month delayed intervention phase (control group). The community choirs will be led by professional music directors. The investigators will assess both primary and secondary outcomes at baseline, 6 and 12 months, with the main intervention group comparison being at 6 months. The investigators will also evaluate the start-up and ongoing program costs for senior centers, including cost/person served and determine quality adjusted life years.

The hypotheses are:

1. Compared to delayed intervention controls, participation in a community choir program will be associated with improvements/maintenance on the primary outcomes of physical function (balance, walking speed, strength), depressive symptoms, and cognition (executive function and memory) at 6 months. The investigators also predict within-group improvements on these primary outcomes at 12 months.
2. Compared to delayed intervention controls, participation in a community choir program will be associated with improvements in the secondary outcomes of well-being (depressive symptoms, loneliness, resilience, social participation, health-related quality of life, shortness of breath, functional status, falls, and health services use) at 6 months. The investigators also predict within-group improvements on these secondary outcomes at 12 months.

Conditions

  • Well Being

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Community of Voices choir program

Attend weekly choir sessions for 12 months at the Senior Center. All choir sessions will include activities that focus on cognitive, psychosocial, and physical engagement components Choir sessions will last 90 minutes each with a 10 minute break. Take part in 3-4 informal choir concerts.

BEHAVIORAL

Wait-list control group

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Julene K Johnson, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-02-28
Primary Completion
2016-12-01
Completion
2018-08-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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