NCT05559203

danceSing Care Evaluation: Testing the Feasibility

Completed NA Results posted Last updated 3 August 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing danceSing Care in Aged in 47 participants. Completed in 1 June 2022.

Timeline

1 November 2021

Primary endpoint
1 June 2022

1 June 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Stirling
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	47
Start date	1 November 2021
Primary completion	1 June 2022
Estimated completion	1 June 2022
Sites	1 location across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

• danceSing Care

Conditions studied

• Aged — all drugs for Aged →
• Older Adults — all drugs for Older Adults →
• Healthy Aging — all drugs for Healthy Aging →
• Aging — all drugs for Aging →

Sponsor

University of Stirling

Who can join

65 and older, any sex, with Aged or Older Adults. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Results — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Per-arm endpoint measurements with 95% confidence intervals where reported. Source: trial results section.

Participants' Programme Adherence as % Sessions Attended Out of the Possible Maximum Number of Sessions Delivered Per Care Home Aggregated as % Across All Care Homes. Primary · Will be evaluated after completion of the 12-week intervention period

The activity coordinators will fill in participants' adherence after each session. The completed files will be sent through to the investigators. Individual participants' adherence is calculated as the number of sessions they individually attended out of the possible number of sessions available to them in their care home. This is reported as the percentage of attended sessions per person per care home out of those delivered averaged per care home then aggregated across all care homes.

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	116

Number of Sessions Delivered, Assessed by Attendance Files Primary · Will be evaluated after completion after the completion of the 12-week intervention period

The activity coordinators will fill in participants' adherence after each session. The completed files will be sent through to the investigators.

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	193

Acceptability of the Intervention Assessed by Focus Groups - Semi-structured Questions Covering Subjective Views on Enjoyment, Motivation, Duration, Content Etc. Primary · 1 month after completion after the completion of the 12-week intervention period

Investigators will conduct focus groups with the activity coordinators to assess acceptability of the intervention. Guide questions included: Did you enjoy using the danceSing Care online activities? Did you manage to take part in the 3+1 sessions a week? If not, why? Would you say duration of sessions was appropriate? Did you complete most of sessions or have to stop at any point? What did you like about the DSC activities? Was there anything you did not like? If you could change something about this programme to make it work effectively here, what would you change and why? Why did you take

Group	Value	95% CI
Single Arm Trial - Intervention Group n = 47 Participants Were Allocated the Intervention	1
Single Arm Trial - Intervention Group n = 47 Participants Were Allocated the Intervention	1
Single Arm Trial - Intervention Group n = 47 Participants Were Allocated the Intervention	1
Single Arm Trial - Intervention Group n = 47 Participants Were Allocated the Intervention	1

Acceptability of the Intervention Assessed by Interviews - Semi-structured Questions Covering Subjective Views on Enjoyment, Motivation, Duration, Content Etc. Primary · 1 month after completion after the completion of the 12-week intervention period

Investigators will conduct focus groups/interviews with residents to assess acceptability of the intervention. Guide questions included: Did you enjoy using the danceSing Care online activities? Did you manage to take part in the 3+1 sessions a week? If not, why? Would you say duration of sessions was appropriate? Did you complete most of sessions or have to stop at any point? What did you like about the DSC activities? Was there anything you did not like? If you could change something about this programme to make it work effectively here, what would you change and why? Why did you take part?

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group	1
Intervention Group	1
Intervention Group	1
Intervention Group	1

Change in Fear of Falling Between Baseline and Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using the Falls Efficacy Scale - International (Short Form)(FES-I) Secondary · Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

It is a 16 item questionnaire, useful to the researchers and clinicians interested in fear of falling, with a score ranging from minimum 16 (no concern about falling) to maximum 64 (severe concern about falling).

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	-.556	-4.199 – 3.088

Change in Participant's Activities of Daily Living and Health-related Quality of Life From Baseline to Within One Month of the Completion of the Intervention Using The Dartmouth COOP Charts Secondary · Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

Change in participant's Activities of daily living and health-related quality of life from baseline to within one month of the completion of the intervention using The Dartmouth COOP which has 5-point Likert-type scaling, with descriptors and cartoon illustrations of levels 1 through 5. Rating of "1" = no impairment, "5" = most impaired.

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	1.167	-.664 – 2.998

Change in Participant's Activities of Daily Living and Health-related Quality of Life From Baseline to Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using EQ-5D-3L Secondary · Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

The EQ-5D-3L descriptive system comprises the following five questions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. Each question has a 3-point scale for rating it: no problems, some problems, and extreme problems (1-3). The patient is asked to indicate his/her health state by ticking the box next to the most appropriate statement in each of the five dimensions. This decision results into a 1-digit number that expresses the level selected for that dimension. The digits for the five dimensions are then combined to describe the patient's health state, with a hi

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	.278	-.714 – 1.270

Change in Participant's Psychosocial Wellbeing From Baseline to Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) Secondary · Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

The HADS questionnaire has seven items each for depression and anxiety subscales. Scoring for each item ranges from zero to three, with three denoting highest anxiety or depression level. A total subscale score of \>8 points out of a possible 21 denotes considerable symptoms of anxiety or depression. No total score is reported. Anxiety and Depression sub-scale totals are calculated separately by summing responses to the applicable 7 items each. The range for each sub-scale is 0-21. A higher score indicates a worse outcome.

Anxiety

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	2.111	.373 – 3.850

Depression

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	3.0	1.303 – 4.697

Change in Participant's Psychosocial Wellbeing From Baseline to Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) Secondary · Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

Individual scores on the PSS can range from 0 to 40 with higher scores indicating higher perceived stress.

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	4.167	.318 – 8.016

Change in Participant's Psychosocial Wellbeing From Baseline to Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using the Brief UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6) Secondary · Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

Using a 4-point rating scale (1= never; 4 = always), participants answer 6 questions, such as "How often do you feel left out?" and "How often do you feel part of a group of friends?". The Brief UCLA Loneliness scale is summed across items to give one total score. The range for total score is 6-24. A higher score indicates worse loneliness, i.e. a worse outcome.

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	1.667	.067 – 3.267

Change in Participant's Sleep Satisfaction From Baseline to Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using the National Sleep Foundation's Sleep Satisfaction Tool (SST) Secondary · Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

9-item questionnaire (scoring 1 not satisfied to 4 very satisfied) to assesses the general population's sleep satisfaction. The SST scale is summed across items to give one total score. The range for total score is 9-36.

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	-6.667	-9.174 – -4.159

Change in Participant's Appetite From Baseline to Within One Month of Completing the Intervention Using the Simplified Nutritional Appetite Questionnaire (SNAQ) Secondary · Baseline and within 1 month of completion of the 12-week intervention period

This is used for limited frailty testing, a self-assessment nutritional screening tool that predicts weight loss, scoring 1 (very poor) to 4 (very good) on appetite-related topics.

Group	Value	95% CI
Intervention Group n = 47 Allocated	.167	-1.078 – 1.411

Sponsor's own description

* The investigators wanted to find out if digital music and movement resources could be delivered in care homes. They rolled out a 12-week programme to 10 care homes and had 47 care home residents participate in the research.
* The investigators also wanted to find out under what circumstances the digital music and movement resources would be most effective for the health and wellbeing of the care home residents.
* A survey measuring the number of falls in the past three months, activities of daily living and health, psychosocial wellbeing (anxiety, depression, stress and loneliness), sleep satisfaction and frailty measures such as appetite and weight loss) was completed before and after the intervention. Also, interviews with residents and focus groups with staff were done after the intervention to find out how they felt about the programme.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. A realist evaluation of the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial of a digital music and movement intervention for older people living in care homes.
   Ofosu EF, De Nys L, Connelly J, Ryde GC, et al · · 2023 · cited 8× · PMID 36879201 · DOI 10.1186/s12877-023-03794-5
2. A realist evaluation of the feasibility of a digital music and movement intervention for older people living in care homes
   Ofosu EF, De Nys L, Connelly J, Ryde GC, et al · · 2022 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2118920/v1