Dance and Movement Therapy in Patients With Schizophrenia (DMTinSchizo)

Amasya University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disabilities Mental; Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia; Dance Therapy

Treatments: Other: Dance and Movement Therapy (DMT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05500651

AmasyaU8

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction: Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that starts at a young age and progresses with positive (hallucination, delusion) and negative (decreased emotional participation, reluctance) symptoms. While drug therapy in schizophrenia targets positive symptoms; psychotherapies are needed in the treatment of negative symptoms. It is seen that especially art therapies such as occupational and music support recovery and rehabilitation. In addition, it is stated that dance and movement therapy is effective in ensuring social participation of patients. There are a limited number of studies demonstrating the effect of dance and movement therapy on schizophrenia patients.

Aim: This project was planned to examine the effects of dance and movement therapy techniques to be applied to patients with schizophrenia on patients' negative symptoms and disability.

Method: In this project, which was planned in a repetitive measure design with a pretest-posttest control group, dance and movement therapy techniques, consisting of 12 sessions in total, will be applied to schizophrenic patients in a Community Mental Health Center once a week. Negative symptoms and disability levels will be determined before, after and a month after the application. The findings obtained as a result of these three follow-ups will be evaluated.

Project Outputs: Reduction of negative symptoms and disability will enable schizophrenic patients to become individuals who can express themselves better in their family and society and have an increased quality of life. It is thought that these gains will increase patients' compliance with treatment, prevent recurrent symptoms and reduce hospitalizations. The results will also constitute a scientific source for the studies to be carried out in the field.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• have been diagnosed with schizophrenia for at least two years
• not have been hospitalized in the past 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• have a therapy/psychoeducation program that they attend regularly
• have a known physical or neurological disease
• having just started the Community Mental Health Center

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Dance and movement therapy is planned to be applied once a week as a total of 12 sessions of 60 minutes. First session; meeting, warming up, determining the group rules, explaining the principles, determining the expectations activities. Subsequent sessions; The greeting is completed with warm-up, initiation, continuation and closing activities. During the warm-up phase, the whole group comes together to form a circle, generally standing, in order to ensure the group dynamic. It starts with simple warm-up exercises such as breathing and muscle relaxation and continues with body awareness exercises. In the continuation (development of themes) stage, practices are included according to the characteristics and needs of the group.

Treatment:

Other: Dance and Movement Therapy (DMT)

Control group

No Intervention group