Dance therapy benefits to older people
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- agingfrail elderlySP2.006.047
- Registration Number
- RBR-4k44npd
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade de Cruz Alta
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Elderly people included in the Viver 60+ project (screening project for functional decline of users of UNIMED Planalto Centro in partnership with Unicruz). Being a resident of Cruz Alta. Show signs of functional decline. Have been submitted to the pre-test evaluations of the project.
Exclusion Criteria
Elderly people who do not accept to participate in the program and those who have medical contraindications or who do not participate in at least 25% of the proposed sessions within the three-month period
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Assess mental health (evidence of depression) trough the questionnaire for screening risk for depression: Geriatric Depression Scale in abbreviated version of Yesavage. The score is considered according to the intensity of depressive symptoms: from 0 - 5 points: normal; 6-10 points: mild depression and from 11 points: severe depression. Test performed before starting and at the end of the 3-month intervention period. The results will be expressed by descriptive statistics and the comparison between pre and post tests will be done through the paired T test (data parametric) or Wilcoxon Test (non-parametric data), considering statistically significant analyzes with p =0.05
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method