Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop: Improve Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Dementia
• Interventions: Behavioral: Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop; Behavioral: My Plate

• Registration Number: NCT03284112
• Lead Sponsor: Columbia University

Brief Summary

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the knowledge of parents and children with respect to dementia symptoms, risk factors, and response before and after an interactive dementia education program that uses music and dance to enhance a health education curriculum at 1-week and 3-months after the intervention.

Detailed Description

Public awareness of Cardinal Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms remains low. Adults often underestimate personal dementia risk; minority populations are more likely to have low dementia literacy and be unaware of it. Cultural dementia belief in minority groups are complex and pose barriers to diagnosis, with dementia symptoms being considered a part of normal aging, or that discussion may be taboo even when recognized. A key barrier to timely AD diagnosis in African Americans is delayed physician contact, often years-long, following the onset of first symptoms. Despite studies demonstrating that dementia concepts first develop in elementary school periods, apart from our work, no dementia awareness programs focus on children. This intervention therefore addresses a major gap regarding optimal approaches for shifting cultural perceptions of dementia in low-income minority populations and reducing barriers to its timely diagnosis.

All R01 aims have been completed in this study.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-09-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-09-13
• Study First Posted: 2017-09-15
• Study Start: 2018-09-18
• Primary Completion: 2023-07-14
• Study Completion: 2023-08-31
• Status Verified: 2024-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-04-19
• Last Update Posted: 2024-04-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2244

Inclusion Criteria

• 4th and 5th-grade children (ages 9-11y) and their parents (age > 20 years).
• Selected New York City public schools with similar socio-demographic composition.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Schools have already received pilot OSHH and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programming.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop	School population with the Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop program.
Control	My Plate	School population without the Old SCHOOL Hip-Hop program, but with the My Plate program.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Dementia Symptom and Response Knowledge Assessment Score	Baseline, 1 week, 3 months	An instrument with multiple choice questions to assess knowledge of recognition of 6 key signs/symptoms and ability to formulate the correct action plan in response to recognizing dementia.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Columbia University Medical Center; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States