Hybrid Group Singing

Conditions

• Coronary Artery Disease
• Elderly

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

55 Years - 89 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• group singing (hybrid format) — BEHAVIORAL
  12-weeks of group singing, combination of in-person and virtual sessions, 3 times weekly
• instructional sing-along video series — BEHAVIORAL
  12-week solo singing video series done independently, 3 times weekly

Study Details

The overall objective of the planned future clinical trial is to test the investigator's central hypothesis that habitual singing over several weeks, similar to habitual exercise, will lead to sustained and favorable vascular adaptation, thereby lowering cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The overall objective of this study is to refine and protocolize the singing interventions and test the feasibility of the future trial design. The investigative team has previously studied solo singing. Collective singing, as in a choir or small group, is associated with a positive sense of social inclusion, well-being, and improved mood, including in older adults.

Key Dates

Start date

Apr 30, 2026

Status verified

Apr 2026

Primary completion

Feb 29, 2028

Completion

Feb 29, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment

32 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

OTHER

Arms

• Active Comparator: group singing (hybrid format)
  Group singing sessions are a hybrid of in-person and virtual participation with in-person participation encouraged. Intake forms will be used to assess musical preference, prior music experience, and pertinent medical conditions to consider. Songs will be selected based on music preference of the subjects. At the start of each session, the music therapist will review the importance of singing and lead the group in taking deep breaths together. Throughout sessions, the therapist will encourage subjects to sing as much as possible, explaining that it's not about how they sound but how they feel. Initially, the group singing format will be 40 minutes of singing (includes a vocal warm-up), three times weekly, for a total of 12 weeks. The total singing time is the same as in the solo singing video arm. Based on focus group feedback, the formats could change. However, we will aim to keep total singing time the same (i.e., 120 minutes of singing per week).
• Active Comparator: individual sing-along video series
  Participants in this arm watch and sing to an online video series independently. The video series is created by a professor of voice with older students in the videos. We plan to use REDCap to deliver the assigned videos at set times and frequencies and display the videos in an embedded audio player for the subjects. Use of REDCap will allow us to track when subjects are watching the videos with reminders sent up to five times. We will also include 2 questions at the end on how much they enjoyed the video (scale 1-10) and how much of the 40 minutes were sung. Inserting questions at the end confirms that participants likely viewed the entire video.

Primary Outcome Measure

Adherence [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]

Locations (1)

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