danceSing Care Evaluation: Testing the Feasibility

NCT05559203 | Completed Results DMC

• 1 other identifier: NICR 3735
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 47
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

• The investigators wanted to find out if digital music and movement resources could be delivered in care homes. They rolled out a 12-week programme to 10 care homes and had 47 care home residents participate in the research.
• The investigators also wanted to find out under what circumstances the digital music and movement resources would be most effective for the health and wellbeing of the care home residents.
• A survey measuring the number of falls in the past three months, activities of daily living and health, psychosocial wellbeing (anxiety, depression, stress and loneliness), sleep satisfaction and frailty measures such as appetite and weight loss) was completed before and after the intervention. Also, interviews with residents and focus groups with staff were done after the intervention to find out how they felt about the programme.

Conditions

Aged; Older Adults; Healthy Aging; Aging

Keywords

feasibility study; realist evaluation; care homes; clinical trial; physical activity; digital intervention; music and movement intervention; dance intervention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Participants' Programme Adherence as % Sessions Attended Out of the Possible Maximum Number of Sessions Delivered Per Care Home Aggregated as % Across All Care Homes.

  The activity coordinators will fill in participants' adherence after each session. The completed files will be sent through to the investigators. Individual participants' adherence is calculated as the number of sessions they individually attended out of the possible number of sessions available to them in their care home. This is reported as the percentage of attended sessions per person per care home out of those delivered averaged per care home then aggregated across all care homes.

  Will be evaluated after completion of the 12-week intervention period

• Number of Sessions Delivered, Assessed by Attendance Files

  The activity coordinators will fill in participants' adherence after each session. The completed files will be sent through to the investigators.

  Will be evaluated after completion after the completion of the 12-week intervention period

• Acceptability of the Intervention Assessed by Focus Groups - Semi-structured Questions Covering Subjective Views on Enjoyment, Motivation, Duration, Content Etc.

  Investigators will conduct focus groups with the activity coordinators to assess acceptability of the intervention. Guide questions included: Did you enjoy using the danceSing Care online activities? Did you manage to take part in the 3+1 sessions a week? If not, why? Would you say duration of sessions was appropriate? Did you complete most of sessions or have to stop at any point? What did you like about the DSC activities? Was there anything you did not like? If you could change something about this programme to make it work effectively here, what would you change and why? Why did you take part? What made you continue to take part? What do you consider the outcomes of this program to have been for you? Would you like to carry on engaging in the DSC activities? Why/why not? Do you feel part of the DSC family/champions? Has engaging in the DSC activities brought you closer to other residents and staff?

  1 month after completion after the completion of the 12-week intervention period

• Acceptability of the Intervention Assessed by Interviews - Semi-structured Questions Covering Subjective Views on Enjoyment, Motivation, Duration, Content Etc.

  Investigators will conduct focus groups/interviews with residents to assess acceptability of the intervention. Guide questions included: Did you enjoy using the danceSing Care online activities? Did you manage to take part in the 3+1 sessions a week? If not, why? Would you say duration of sessions was appropriate? Did you complete most of sessions or have to stop at any point? What did you like about the DSC activities? Was there anything you did not like? If you could change something about this programme to make it work effectively here, what would you change and why? Why did you take part? What made you continue to take part? What do you consider the outcomes of this program to have been for you? Would you like to carry on engaging in the DSC activities? Why/why not? Do you feel part of the DSC family/champions? Has engaging in the DSC activities brought you closer to other residents and staff?

  1 month after completion after the completion of the 12-week intervention period

Secondary Outcomes (8)

• Change in Fear of Falling Between Baseline and Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using the Falls Efficacy Scale - International (Short Form)(FES-I)

  Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

• Change in Participant's Activities of Daily Living and Health-related Quality of Life From Baseline to Within One Month of the Completion of the Intervention Using The Dartmouth COOP Charts

  Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

• Change in Participant's Activities of Daily Living and Health-related Quality of Life From Baseline to Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using EQ-5D-3L

  Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

• Change in Participant's Psychosocial Wellbeing From Baseline to Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

  Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

• Change in Participant's Psychosocial Wellbeing From Baseline to Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)

  Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

Study Arms (1)

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

Digital music and movement resources.

Behavioral: danceSing Care

Interventions

danceSing Care BEHAVIORAL

The programme was a digital movement and music programme with resources from danceSing Care and consisted of three movement sessions and one music session each week, the recommended dose agreed between danceSing Care and the Advisory group, each lasting about 20 minutes. Also, the danceSing care resources were designed to suit older adults with physical and cognitive impairments (residents with mobility aids and/or dementia). Movement sessions included chair and standing fitness, which started with a warm-up and finished with stretching exercises. Sessions were managed and supervised by care home activity coordinators.

Intervention group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• residents in care homes ≥ 65 years,
• able to complete 12 weeks of a movement and music program,
• having the capacity to give informed consent.

You may not qualify if:

• currently taking part in any other clinical trial which could potentially have an impact upon or influence the findings of the current study,
• pre-existing conditions or concurrent diagnoses which would profoundly impact their capacity to undergo the intervention, even once adaptations have been made,
• inability to understand written/spoken English adequately to participate in the measures and intervention (e.g., due to cognitive or sensory impairment).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Stirling: lead

Study Sites (1)

Balhousie Care Group

Perth, PH1 1RA, United Kingdom

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Ofosu EF, De Nys L, Connelly J, Ryde GC, Whittaker AC. A realist evaluation of the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial of a digital music and movement intervention for older people living in care homes. BMC Geriatr. 2023 Mar 6;23(1):125. doi: 10.1186/s12877-023-03794-5.

  PMID: 36879201 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Prof Anna C. Whittaker
• Organization: University of Stirling

a.c.whittaker@stir.ac.uk

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Study Officials

• Anna Whittaker

  University of Stirling

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: Yes

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 8, 2022
• First Posted: September 29, 2022
• Study Start: November 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2022
• Study Completion: June 1, 2022
• Last Updated: August 3, 2025
• Results First Posted: August 3, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-07

Locations

GB (1)