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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02919748
Date of registration: 19/09/2016
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: National University, Singapore
Public title: Choral Singing For the Prevention of Dementia
Scientific title: Choral Singing For the Prevention of Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Date of first enrolment: July 2015
Target sample size: 360
Recruitment status: Unknown status
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02919748
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Prevention. Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Singapore
Contacts
Name:     Lei Feng, Medicine
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  National University, Singapore
Name:     Lei Feng, Medicine
Address: 
Telephone: 65-67723491
Email: pcmfl@nus.edu.sg
Affiliation: 
Name:     Elisabeth Ow, Nursing
Address: 
Telephone: 65-67910134
Email: pcmokte@nus.edu.sg
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Community-living elderly aged 60 years and above, and

2. Subjective cognitive complaints based on self-report, or

3. Objective cognitive impairment based on neuropsychological test scores (Z score < 0
and >-1.5), or

4. Multiple risk factors of dementia such as family history, depression, etc., and

5. Not demented: Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) global score=0

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Any terminal illness, OR

2. Stroke, OR

3. Aphasia, OR

4. Marked hearing impairment, OR

5. Participating in another interventional study



Age minimum: 60 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Cognitive Decline
Dementia
Intervention(s)
Other: Choral Singing
Other: Health Education Program
Primary Outcome(s)
Changes in cognitive performance [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Changes in Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Changes in Montreal Cognitive Assessment [Time Frame: Baseline, 6 month, 1 year, 2 year]
Changes in biological markers [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Changes in Symbol Digit Modality [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Anxiety symptoms [Time Frame: Baseline, 6 month, 1 year, 2 year]
Changes in Block Design [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Changes in Boston Naming [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Stress [Time Frame: Baseline, 6 month, 1 year, 2 year]
Changes in brain structure and function [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Changes in Digit Span [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Neuropsychiatric symptoms [Time Frame: Baseline, 6 month, 1 year, 2 year.]
Sleep quality [Time Frame: Baseline, 6 month, 1 year, 2 year]
Changes in Mini-Mental State Examination [Time Frame: Baseline, 6 month, 1 year, 2 year]
Depressive symptoms [Time Frame: Baseline, 6 month, 1 year, 2 year]
Changes in Color Trails [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Severity of symptoms of dementia [Time Frame: Baseline, 1 year, 2 year]
Secondary ID(s)
NUS-IRB: B-14-304
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ministry of Health, Singapore
University of Cambridge
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Nanyang Technological University
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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