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title: Efficacy Study of Standard Ballroom and Latin Dance Program in Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity
nct_id: NCT02021890
overall_status: COMPLETED
phase: NA
sponsor: University of Bologna
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
primary_condition: Diabetes
countries: Italy
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clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02021890"
ct_last_update_post_date: 2013-12-27
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# Efficacy Study of Standard Ballroom and Latin Dance Program in Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity

**Official Title:** A Standard Ballroom and Latin Dance Program to Improve Fitness and Adherence to Physical Activity in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity

**NCT ID:** [NCT02021890](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02021890)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 100
- **Lead Sponsor:** University of Bologna
- **Collaborators:** General Hospital, Gavardo, Villa Garda Hospital
- **Conditions:** Diabetes, Obesity
- **Start Date:** 2011-09
- **Completion Date:** 2013-03
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2013-12-27

## Brief Summary

to test the metabolic and clinical effects of a 6-month program of dancing in subjects with type 2 diabetes and/or obesity, chronically cared for in two diabetes/metabolic units. Self-selection of the leisure time activity program was allowed to increase adherence to the physical activity programs.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 40 Years
- **Maximum age:** 70 Years
- **Sex:** ALL
- **Healthy Volunteers:** No

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Inclusion Criteria:

* type 2 diabetes in fairly good metabolic control (glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) \< 8.5%) and/or obesity (Body Mass Index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m2 or waist circumference \>94 cm in males, \>80 in females), with/without prediabetes or minor alterations of HbA1c.

Exclusion Criteria:

* previous cardiovascular events, muscle-skeletal problems reducing physical ability, any general condition limiting systematic adherence
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## Arms

- **ballroom and Latin dance program** (EXPERIMENTAL) — two-hour dancing session twice a week
- **Self-selected physical activity** (ACTIVE_COMPARATOR) — self-selected program of physical activity

## Interventions

- **Dance program** (BEHAVIORAL) — two-hour dancing session twice a week, led by instructors in a private hall of a disco. Both solo and partner and group dances were performed during each session: an initial one-hour activity, chaired by two instructors who taught new steps and choreographies to patients (both individually and in group), was followed by a second hour, when patients danced in pairs both Latin and standard ballroom music
- **Self-selected physical activity** (BEHAVIORAL) — gym sessions (with the support of sports associations), exercising at home (cycling, stepping) or walking, jogging or cycling outside with/without group support

## Primary Outcomes

- **5% reduction in BMI or waist circumference** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **5% reduction in BMI or waist circumference** _(time frame: 6 months)_
- **improved physical fitness (physical activity exceeding 10 MET-hour/week** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **improved physical fitness (physical activity exceeding 10 MET-hour/week** _(time frame: 6 months)_

## Secondary Outcomes

- **0.3% reduction of HbA1c in the presence of diabetes** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **0.3% reduction of HbA1c in the presence of diabetes** _(time frame: 6 months)_
- **10% increase in 6-min walk test** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **10% increase in 6-min walk test** _(time frame: 6 months)_

## Locations (2)

- Unit of Metabolic Diseases and Clinical Dietetics, "Alma Mater Studiorum" University, Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Unit of Endocrinology and Diabetology, General Hospital, Gavardo, Brescia, Italy

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