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Table 2 Summary of feasibility of experimental group and outcome measures for included studies

From: Effects of dance therapy on cognitive and mental health in adults aged 55 years and older with mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author (year)

Country

Feasibility of experimental group

Outcome measures

Assessment time

Adherence

Dropout rate

Adverse events

Global Cognition

Memory

Attention

Executive function

Processing speed

Visuospatial Function

Language

Mental health

Quality of life

Aguiñaga (2017) [31]

Spain

85.00%

None

None

MMSE

Logical Memory I and II

DST SDMT

TMT-B Stroop

TMT-A SDMT

 

Word fluency

GDS-15

QoL-AD, SF-LLFDI

At baseline, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 8 months

Doi

(2017) [34]

Japan

86.00%

17.91%

None

MMSE

Story memory, Word list memory

 

TMT-B

TMT-A

    

At baseline and post-intervention

Lazarou (2017) [35]

Greece

Not reported

10.81%

Not reported

MoCA MMSE

RBMT1, RBMT2, RAVLT

TEA

  

ROCFT-copy, ROCFT-delay

FAS

GDS-30 NPI

 

At baseline and post-intervention

Dominguez (2018) [33]

Philippines

88.80%

17.40%

None

MoCA

     

BNT

GDS-30 NPI

 

At baseline and post-intervention

Wu

(2019) [36]

China

Not reported

6.90%

None

MoCA MMSE

WMS-RLM

DST SDMT

TMT-B

TMT-A SDMT

 

Word fluency

GDS-15

SF-36

At baseline, 3 months, and 6 months

Wang

(2020) [40]

China

80.29%

6.06%

None

MoCA MMSE

      

GDS-15

SF-12

At baseline, 1.5 months, and 3 months

Bisbe

(2020) [32]

Spain

95.10%

5.00%

Not reported

MMSE

WMS-III, RBANS

 

LVF

TMT-A

JLO

CVF

HADS-depression HADS-anxiety

SF-36

At baseline and post-intervention

Zhao

(2020) [37]

China

Not reported

12.90%

None

MoCA-P

      

GDS-30

 

At baseline and post-intervention

Fei

(2020) [38]

China

Not reported

Not reported

Not reported

MoCA MMSE

  

TMT-B

TMT-A

    

At baseline and post-intervention

Chang

(2021) [39]

China

Not reported

13.89%

Not reported

MoCA

      

GDS-15

SF-12

At baseline, 9 weeks, and 18 weeks

  1. Abbreviations: BNT Boston Naming Test, CCT Clinical Controlled Trial, CVF Category Verbal Fluency, DST Digit Span Test, FAS Verbal Fluency F-A-S Test, GDS-15 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale, GDS-30 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale, HADS Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale, JLO Judgement of Line Orientation Test, LVF Letter Verbal Fluency, MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination, MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment, NPI Neuropsychiatric Inventory, QoL-AD Quality of Life-Alzheimer’s Disease, RAVLT Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, RBANS Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status, RBMT Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test, RCT randomized controlled trial, ROCFT Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test, SDMT Symbol Digit Modalities Test, SF-12 12-Item Short Form Health Survey, SF-36 36-Item Short Form Health Survey, TEA Test of Everyday Attention, TMT-A Trail Making Test-A, TMT-B Trail Making Test-B, WMS-III Wechsler Memory Scale 3rd Edition, WMS-RLM Logical Memory subset from Revised Wechsler Memory Scale