Mi SciELO
Servicios Personalizados
Articulo
Indicadores
- Citado por SciELO
Links relacionados
- Similares en SciELO
Compartir
Revista Información Científica
versión On-line ISSN 1028-9933
Resumen
CERNUDA LAGO, Amador y DE ANDRES TERAN, Ana Luz. The benefits of Cuban psychoballet in the treatment of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Psychometric validation. Rev. inf. cient. [online]. 2019, vol.98, n.2, pp. 171-183. ISSN 1028-9933.
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.
Palabras clave : affections; Alzheimer; dance; dementia; emotion; movement; psychoballet; Cuban.