The benefits of Cuban psychoballet in the treatment of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Psychometric validation
Keywords:
affections, Alzheimer, dance, dementia, emotion, movement, psychoballet, CubanAbstract
Introduction: there is a need for studies with scientific rigor that evaluate the benefits of psychoballet in people with dementia and also a vacuum of studies that directly measure the emotional state of the patient and not through an observer.
Objective: to analyze the possible differences in the scores of the participants before and after the psychoballet sessions through the Profile of Mood States (POMS).
Method: it is an almost experimental design. The POMS was administered to 36 people with dementia before and after four psychoballet sessions.
Results: after the psychoballet sessions the stress, depression and confusion factors of the POMS were reduced, while vigor increased significantly. The size of the effect varied from small to moderate-high. There was no effect on fatigue and anger.
Conclusions: the results indicate that psychoballet can be a beneficial non-pharmacological therapy for people with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
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