| Abstract [eng] |
Thesis title. Impact of Dance Movement Therapy for People Experiencing Chronic Pain The aim. To evaluate the effects of dance-movement therapy on people experiencing chronic pain. Objectives of the research: 1. To review the health problems and needs of people experiencing chronic pain and to evaluate the possibilities of applying dance-movement therapy to this population. 2. To evaluate the signs of anxiety and depression and the perception of body sensations in individuals experiencing chronic pain empirically by applying a model of dance-movement therapy work based on attentive awareness. 3. To reveal the experience of dance-movement therapy in people experiencing chronic pain. Participants. Eight women experienced different types of chronic pain. Methodology of investigation. A mixed study method was chosen. The quantitative research method was used to assess the signs of anxiety and depression and body sensation in chronic pain survivors before and after ten cycles of dance-movement therapy sessions and to indicate the effect of therapy, the qualitative research method exposed the dance-movement therapy experience in people experiencing chronic pain. For the quantitative part of the study, data were collected using HAD and MAIA questionnaires, for the qualitative part – individual semi-structured interviews were carried out to obtain data which was analyzed using the method of inductive thematic analysis according to Braun and Clarke (2013). The survey was conducted in November-December of 2021. Research results. There were statistically significant changes in eight aspects of body awareness, but no statistically significant changes in the symptoms of anxiety and depression after ten sessions of DMT. The experience of living with chronic pain revealed three main directions: 1) Pain calls for self-care; 2) Emotional experiences are a complex part of the problem of people experiencing chronic pain; 3) It is important to verbalize the pain. Keywords: chronic pain, dance-movement therapy, quantitative research, qualitative research. |
