100
Participants
Start Date
September 30, 2011
Primary Completion Date
July 31, 2012
Study Completion Date
March 31, 2013
Dance program
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
gym sessions (with the support of sports associations), exercising at home (cycling, stepping) or walking, jogging or cycling outside with/without group support
Unit of Endocrinology and Diabetology, General Hospital, Gavardo
"Unit of Metabolic Diseases and Clinical Dietetics, Alma Mater Studiorum University", Bologna
General Hospital, Gavardo
UNKNOWN
Villa Garda Hospital
OTHER
University of Bologna
OTHER