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Conditions
Brief summary
The current controlled study aim to compare whether 50-hours folk dancing from the Basque Country and an education group on physical activity for health will show differences in motor efficiency, intra-individual variability in high demanding functional and mobility test (i.e. CSRT, while walking, in the TU&G, and TU&G cognitive), fall risk, executive function and memory in Parkinson's disease who are cognitively intact with high physical performance levels. It was hypothesized that members of the folk dance group will achieve a higher physical and functional performance, executive function, better memory, cognitive status and lower physiological fall risk, compared with the education group on Physical activity. We speculate that folk dance group will achieve as well a higher intensity doing physical activity compared with the physically active group.
Interventions
The intervention group participants will be enrolled for the first time in Folk dances from the Basque Country. They will receive lessons in groups delivered by a licensed experienced dance professor that supervise and control each lesson during the intervention period.
The participants receive two dance lesson of 90 min per week for 20weeks.
The lessons are performed in stable groups of 12-14 participants per lesson led by the same professor.
To monitor continuity a registry of attendance to d
The intervention group participants will be enrolled for the first time in Folk dances from the Basque Country. They will receive lessons in groups delivered by a licensed experienced dance professor that supervise and control each lesson during the intervention period. The participants receive two dance lesson of 90 min per week for 20weeks. The lessons are performed in stable groups of 12-14 participants per lesson led by the same professor. To monitor continuity a registry of attendance to dance lessons will be used. To analyze the intensity of dance lessons and obtain heart rate, watches and heart rate sensors will be used every 10 classes. They will receive three education lessons on physical activity for health, all of them after baseline test. The lessons will be in a group and over multiple sessions on a lecture class style. An exercise physiologist or physiotherapist will be responsible for them. The First class (on the 1st intervention week) the participants will be taught on the minimum requirements of physical activity for health according to the WHO guide 2010. The second class (2nd intervention week) the participants will compare their habitual physical activity to the minimum requirements of exercise for health. The third class (second week) they will be given advice on exercise safety: footwear and clothing, hydration and nutrition, on the signs and symptoms to stop the exercise and, safety under hot or cold weather conditions. They will be advised to preserve their regular routines and to do 150min per week of physical activity for the 20 weeks follow-up intervention and the year after the conclusion of the intervention. Monthly calendars will be given to the participants so that they could register physical activity and sedentary time. The participants will be encouraged to continue with their habitual routines and regular activities including physical activities. Previous beginning they will receive 3 educational classes on exercise
Sponsors
The Basque Country University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
50 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Community living men and women, over 50 years with independence to walk continuously for 6 minutes without walking aids, and able to cover 300m. Walk 8m test over or equal to 0.8m per second velocity Participants have to score between 1 and two in Hoehn and Yahr scale. Less than 4 risk factors determined by the Quick screen (copyright). All participants must have high physical performance (score 6 or more in the Short Physical Performance Battery). Previous the beginning of the intervention, neither participants in control group nor the participants in the intervention group, could have been involved during the previous year in any continuous (weekly) activity related with dances or with music accompaniment.
Exclusion criteria
Participants in both groups will be excluded if they score less than 1 in Hoehn and Yahr scale or more than two. Have high fall risk determined by quick screen (5 or more fall risk factors), Have cognitive impairment determined by MMSE <24, Terminal disease Unstable medical conditions involving neuromuscular, skeletal or cardiovascular system Other known neurodegenerative disease apart from Parkinson's Absolute or relative contraindications for exercise, Participants enrolled previously in dance activities, or with music involvement (i.e. Aerobic, step,...), also those in the control group that become participants of dance activities during intervention period or follow-up.
Outcome results
None listed