Injuries
Conditions
Keywords
Dance Injuries, Injury Prevention Workshops, Motor Skill Theory, Gross Motor Skills
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALInjury Prevention Workshops
Each workshop will last 90 minutes and consist of approximately 20-30 minutes of lecture, 30 minutes of movement, no more than 20 minutes for a pre-test (workshop 1) or post-test (workshop 2), and remaining time for Q&A.
Sponsors
NYU Langone Health
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* 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.
Exclusion criteria
* Under the Age of 18
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed