Clinical trial NCT03462485: Pilot Study of the Effects of Playing Golf on People With Dementia
Official title: Pilot Study on the Effects of Participating in a Dementia-friendly Golf Programme on People With Dementia and Their Informal Caregivers
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Dementia
Lead sponsor: University of Bedfordshire
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-03-12
Enrollment: 24
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Intervention model description: The project will be a randomised controlled trial with a partial crossover. Each condition will be followed for eight weeks, with the crossover occurring after eight weeks for the control group. The intervention group will continue for the full sixteen weeks.
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The research question for this study is whether golf is a suitable physical activity for people with dementia (PWD). It follows a qualitative pilot study in Lincoln where PWD enjoyed the activity and caregivers appreciated the service. Golf combines many desirable elements in a physical activity programme that include being outdoors, social, cognitively challenging, no reaction-time component, and being a typical everyday activity. The length of time that golf sessions last could also offer a potential respite from care for caregivers.

Participants will be people with dementia and their caregivers. Eligibility criteria will include having been clinically diagnosed with dementia, being able to stand on one leg for at least six seconds to ensure participants are able to balance sufficiently well to be able to play golf. The study will be undertaken at The London Shire Golf Club, with the golf training provided by the Golf Trust, which is a charitable foundation experienced in providing golf training to people with a range of different disabilities.

The randomised controlled trial study will last 16 weeks, with a partial crossover design. The experimental group with have two eight-week periods of golf while the control group will have eight weeks without golf, then the golf intervention. There will be two 150-min sessions each week, starting with 30 minutes socialising, then 90 minutes playing golf, then 30 minutes socialising. The golf sessions will progress from putting, to chipping, and then a full swing, with sessions taking place on a nine-hole golf course. Participants will be evaluated before and after each eight-week period for physical function, physical activity level, cognitive function, and quality of life. Their caregivers will also provide information related to the PWD in terms of quality of life and psychopathology in dementia, as well as their own quality of life.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Clinically diagnosed with dementia (any dementia)
* Receiving post-diagnostic support
* The capacity to give informed consent
* The physical capacity to play golf as determined by a single-leg stance test of balance

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable to give informed consent
* Without the physical capacity to play golf, as determined by a single-leg stance test of balance

Primary outcomes:
measure: Quality of life
timeFrame: 5 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB)
timeFrame: 10 minutes
measure: Assessment of Physical Activity in Frail Older People (APAFOP)
timeFrame: 5 minutes
measure: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
timeFrame: 10 minutes
measure: Caregiver assessment of quality of life (DEMQOL-Proxy)
timeFrame: 5 minutes
measure: The C-DEMQOL will be used to assess the quality of life of caregivers of PWD. Quality of life of caregivers (C-DEMQOL)
timeFrame: 5 minutes
measure: Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI-Q)
timeFrame: 5 minutes
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Luton
country: United Kingdom
facility: University of Bedfordshire
state: Bedfordshire
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