Dance and Parkinson’s Disease: what are the effects on quality of life?

• Autor(a) principal: Möhler, Camila Cardozo
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Buratto-Silveira, Marjoe, Delabary, Marcela dos Santos, Costa, Rochelle Rocha, Rodrigues, Luciano Palmeiro, Haas, Aline Nogueira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbqv/article/view/13013
• topic: Ciências da Saúde - Educação Física; Doença de Parkinson; Dança; Terapia através da dança; Qualidade de vida.; Parkinson disease; Dance; Dance therapy; Quality of life.

OBJECTIVE: To verify the effects of dance on quality of life in people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD).METHODS: Nine participants with PD, both sexes, were divided into two groups: experimental (EG; n = 5; 70.60 ± 8.01 years) which received 15 dance classes, for 8 weeks; and control (CG; n = 4; 71.00 ± 13.34 years), which received no intervention. The Parkinson Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) was performed to evaluate quality of life pre and post intervention. Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) analysis was used to compare the groups, pre and post, level of significance a = 0.05. SPSS version 22.0 was performed to analyse the data.RESULTS: Both groups showed a significant decrease in the quality of life total score after the intervention period (p = 0.047). Significant differences were found between groups in the social support and mobility domains, showing better scores in the EG when compared to CG.CONCLUSIONS: The results showed significant improvements in the overall quality of life score after 8 weeks of intervention.