NCT01939717

A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial Comparing Irish Set Dancing to Usual Care for People With Parkinson's Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Limerick · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Primary aim is to conduct a pilot trial to determine: 1. The feasibility and efficiency of randomisation procedures and study design 2. If recruitment rates are sufficient to adequately power a larger trial The secondary aim is to determine the efficiency of set dancing in comparison to a control for people with Patkinson's disease.

Conditions

• Parkinson's Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dance group	Participants will attend ten weeks of set dancing classes. Each class will be one and half hours. Family members will be invited to partner each participant with Parkinson's disease during the class. Set dancing steps and sets will be thought and progressed in line with the participants abilities. Frequent rests will be taken during the classes. Participants will be given a home exercise programme which will involve chair based exercises, mental rehearsal, listening music, watching a dance DVD and practicing dance material thought in class.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2016-01-01
• First posted: 2013-09-11
• Last updated: 2016-06-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ireland