Community Choirs To Promote Healthy Aging; Community of Voices Chorus
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Well Being
In brief
The investigators will recruit 450 older adults and will utilize 12 Administration on Aging (AoA)-supported senior centers to implement a multisite, cluster randomized (by center), wait-list clinical trial. Centers will be randomized to receive the choir program immediately (intervention group) or after a 6-month delayed intervention phase (control group). The community choirs will be led by professional music directors. The investigators will assess both primary and secondary outcomes at baseline, 6 and 12 months, with the main intervention group comparison being at 6 months. The investigators will also evaluate the start-up and ongoing program costs for senior centers, including cost/person served and determine quality adjusted life years. The hypotheses are: 1. Compared to delayed intervention controls, participation in a community choir program will be associated with improvements/maintenance on the primary outcomes of physical function (balance, walking speed, strength), depressive symptoms, and cognition (executive function and memory) at 6 months. The investigators also predict within-group improvements on these primary outcomes at 12 months. 2. Compared to delayed intervention controls, participation in a community choir program will be associated with improvements in the secondary outcomes of well-being (depressive symptoms, loneliness, resilience, social participation, health-related quality of life, shortness of breath, functional status, falls, and health services use) at 6 months. The investigators also predict within-group improvements on these secondary outcomes at 12 months.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01869179
- Run by
- University of California, San Francisco
- People needed
- 390
- Starts
- 2013-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-01-18
Who can join
Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Age 60 and older
- Living independently
- Have adequate visual and auditory acuity (with correction) to complete testing
- Speak English or Spanish (including both bilingual and monolingual Spanish speakers)
You may not qualify if…
- A baseline diagnosis of dementia, determined by the screening tool or self-report of diagnosis
- Have an unstable or serious medical condition that would limit participation in the weekly choir sessions or assessments, including current (but not prior) severe psychiatric disorder
- Currently singing in a choir, within the last 6 months
- Plans to move out of the area within 12 months
Where it is running
- UCSF Institute for Health & Aging — San Francisco, California, United States
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