Educating the Educator to Reduce Risk of Dance Student Injury
- Conditions
- Injuries
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Injury Prevention Workshops
- Registration Number
- NCT03223259
- Lead Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
- Brief Summary
A group of dance educators will attend two dance injury prevention workshops hosted by the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (HCDI), NYU Langone Medical Center, during which participants will learn strategies to help them train their students in safe ways and impart injury prevention information through their dance classes to their students. The educators will take pre- and post-workshop tests to assess knowledge and perceptions of dance medicine. Several weeks later, participants will take a follow-up survey to assess knowledge implementation and workshop effectiveness.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 11
- Teach dance to children in at least one private dance school
- Must be able to receive email and complete a survey online
- Must believe that students lack access to dance injury prevention resources
- Must teach at least one group of students that takes class from them a minimum of twice a week and must teach those students regularly in September and October, 2017.
- Under the Age of 18
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Injury Prevention Workshops Injury Prevention Workshops Subjects will attend two Injury Prevention Workshops
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Score on Injury Prevention Workshop Pre-Test and Post-Test 20 Minutes The test will ask subjects questions about their dance teaching background and ascertain their current knowledge of dance anatomy and injuries.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
New York University School of Medicine
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States