Clinical trial NCT04281654: Effects of Arts Engagement on Physical Performance, Cognition, Social Isolation, and Self-Perception in Older Adults
Official title: Effects of Arts Engagement Programs on Physical Performance, Cognition, Social Isolation, and Self Perception in Older Adults
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Social Isolation
Mental Status Change
Cognitive Impairment
Physical Activity
Quality of Life
Self-Perception
Keywords: Dance
Music
Social Conversation
Lead sponsor: George Mason University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Endowment for the Arts, United States
First posted: 2020-02-24
Enrollment: 64
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 65
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this community-engaged project is to examine how taking part in different arts (dance \& music), compared to control (no arts) affects older adults' Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL using the Short Form-20(SF) form), physical performance (Short Physical Performance Battery-SPPB), cognition (using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment-MoCA), social engagement (National Social Life, Health, \& Aging Project-NSHAP survey), and perceptions of self (focus interviews).

Detailed description: In this Randomized-Controlled-Trial, 60 adults (20/condition) will take part in 20, 45-minute sessions (ballroom dance, ukulele/guitar playing, or control- i.e. social conversation), 2 times/week for 10 weeks.

While the investigators know that arts participation improves function in older adults, exact effects of different arts programs on health outcomes remains unclear.

The investigators plan to fill this gap by studying how different arts participation affect health outcomes.

The overall aim is to study how arts engagement helps older adults remain active and influences physical, psychological, and emotional functioning.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Be healthy,
* \> 65 years of age and able to take part in learning music, or ballroom dance.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Presence of a co-morbid mental health diagnosis or other physical or behavioral challenges that the study staff assess as rendering the participant unable or unsafe to participate in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Physical Performance using the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB)
timeFrame: Pre (Week 0), Post 1 (Week 10) and Post 2 (Week 15) Intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Cognition using Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) survey
timeFrame: Pre (Week 0), Post 1 (Week 10) and Post 2 (Week 15) Intervention
measure: Change in Self-Perception Post Intervention Focus Interview
timeFrame: Post 1 (Week 10) and Post 2 (Week 15) Intervention
measure: Change in Social Connections using the Social Connections Survey
timeFrame: Post 1 (Week 10) and Post 2 (Week 15) Intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Manassas
country: United States
facility: Hylton Performing Arts Center
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: George Mason University
name: Jatin P Ambegaonkar, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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