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Creative Dance Effects on Community-dwelling Older Adults

NCT04311931 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 38

Last updated 2024-03-28

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Summary

The aim of present study is to analyze the effect of a Creative Dance program on well-being, physical function, body awareness, and rhythm perception and reproduction of community-dwelling older adults. This quasi-experimental study is a controlled trial.

Participants will be allocated to two groups: experimental group (who attend the Creative Dance program) and control group (who maintain usual activity).

The Creative Dance program will run for 12 weeks (3 sessions/week of 60 minutes).

Participants will be assessed 1) at baseline and at 2) at 12 weeks.

Conditions

  • Community-dwelling Older Adults

Interventions

OTHER

Active Dance Program

All Creative Dance sessions comprised five phases: 1) opening ritual (5 min), in which participants will be welcomed and will be informed about the objectives and structure of the session; 2) warm-up (15 min), in which body muscle groups will be activated through the introduction of basics elements of movement; 3) main phase (30 min), will be proposed individual, pair and group activities, in order to achieve the objectives described above. This phase will end with a choreography composition; 4) cool-down (5 min) with stretching and physiological parameters normalization; and 5) ending ritual (5 min), in which the participants will be invented to share their sessions' experience and they will fill a sheet with attendance, exercise intensity perception (Borg Scale) and satisfaction's (Caregiver Treatment Satisfaction questionnaire).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Departamento de Desporto e Saúde, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Comprehensive Health Research Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Horizon 2020 - Portugal 2020 (ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-000007 - Project: ESACA)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Évora

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ana Cruz-Ferreira, PhD · University of Évora

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-03-01
Primary Completion
2020-03-15
Completion
2020-06-30

Countries

  • Portugal

Study Locations

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