NCT06130878

Rhythmic Exercise in Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment

Effects of a Rhythmic Exercise Program on the Physical, Mental and Cognitive Performance of Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Jaén · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Rhythmic physical exercise is a very promising non-pharmaceutical tool to prevent or reduce cognitive decline that occurs in people sixty years of age or older. The main objective is to determine the effect of a rhythmic exercise program on the physical, mental and cognitive performance of older adults with cognitive impairment. The main variables of the study will be: global cognitive function evaluated by the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA); attention and executive functions evaluated using the Trail Making Test (TMT) part A and B. As secondary variables, the functional abilities evaluated using the Senior Fitness Test (SFT) will be taken into account. Additionally, sociodemographic variables and variables related to health status will be evaluated. These will take into account the quality of sleep evaluated with the Pittsburgh index, the nutritional status evaluated using the Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form (MNA-SF) scale, and the Stress and anxiety levels will be assessed using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21). All variables will be evaluated before the intervention and after it. After the intervention, it is expected that the exercise program will improve the neurocognitive performance, as well as the functional and psychological abilities of older adults.

Conditions

• Cognitive Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Rhythmic exercise	A multicomponent rhythmic physical training will be carried out, with a predominance of QMT, following the principles of "Animal Flow" \[46\] and including the following components: wrist mobilizations; activations; specific stretching positions; special locomotor movements or "traveling forms"; interruptions and transitions with dynamic movements and choreographic sequences of "Flow". Aspects related to the control of intensity, volume and progression strategy have yet to be defined.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-01-08
• Primary completion: 2024-01-15
• Completion: 2024-04-05
• First posted: 2023-11-14
• Last updated: 2025-04-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain