Recruiting

Dance Program

Sponsor:

University of British Columbia

Code:

NCT05295797

Conditions

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Dance Program

Study Details

Brief summary:

The Positively Dance study involves the assessment of the accessibility and feasibility of a 12-week randomized aerobic dance pilot program that will provide women living with HIV with the opportunity to take part in dance classes with women living with HIV as the dance instructors.

Conditions

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Study ID

NCT05295797

Start date

May 1, 2022

Status verified date

May, 2023

Completion date

Sep 1, 2023

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul 1, 2023

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Self-identify as women living with HIV
  • Are over the age of 18
  • Are able to speak and read English
  • Are able and willing to commit to participating in dance classes 2 times a week per week for 12 weeks
  • Be able to attend in person dance classes
  • Meet minimal risk clearance to engage in exercise (screened with the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire PARQ+)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Do not self-identify as a woman living with HIV
  • Are under the age of 18
  • Cannot speak and read English
  • Cannot attend in person dance classes
  • Do not meet minimal risk clearance to engage in exercise (screened with the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire PARQ+)

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Dance Program

Participants will take 2 in person dance classes led by peer dance instructors per week for 12 weeks

no intervention: Control

Participants in the waitlist control will be assigned to a waiting list and will be invited to participate in dance classes after the intervention arm 12-week dance program has ended

Interventions

Dance Program

Participants will take 2 in person dance classes led by peer dance instructors per week for 12 weeks

Primary outcome measure

  • Proportion of women who accept the invitation to participate in the research study [ Time Frame: Throughout the recruitment phase, up to 1.5 months ]
  • Number of women who initially participate in the intervention [ Time Frame: Week 1-12 ]
  • Proportion of women who participate in the dance classes, even after the active data collection phase is completed [ Time Frame: Week 13-24 ]
  • Acceptability and feasibility of the selected procedures (e.g. blood draws, questionnaires) by determining numbers who attend these sessions and complete the questionnaires [ Time Frame: Baseline (Week 0) and at the end of the program (Week 13) ]
  • Adverse events that may occur during the trial [ Time Frame: Week 1-24 ]
  • Continued participation of the peer dance instructors [ Time Frame: Week 1-24 ]
  • Individual semi-structured interviews asking participants their perceptions of and experiences with the program [ Time Frame: Once after Week 12, up to 4 weeks after ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Eli Puterman, PhD

604 822 2854eli.puterman@ubc.ca

Locations

University of British Columbia

Recruiting

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T1Z4

Contacts

Eli Puterman, PhD

604 822 2854eli.puterman@ubc.ca

More Information

Sponsor

University of British Columbia

Last update posted

May 11, 2023

Last verified

May, 2023

Keywords

  • HIV
  • dance
  • peer-led

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of British Columbia on 2023-05-11.