| Abstract [eng] |
Background. More and more women with a diagnosis of breast cancer overcome the active treatment successfully and the society pays a greater attention to their biopsychosocial difficulties during remission. Dance-movement therapy offers a lot of methods for physical, emotional and social health promotion, but its application for women with breast cancer during remission is researched minimally, especially the interaction between the emotional and physical health. Objective. To reveal the individual impact of dance-movement therapy on the symptoms of anxiety, depression, somatization and a level of cardiovascular risk of the participants as well as to reveal their individual experience of dance-movement therapy. Participants. Six women with breast cancer during remission, from the age from 41 to 68. Methods. We measured the psychological health of the participants before and after the intervention using HAD anxiety and depression questionnaire and PHQ-15 somatization questionnaire. We evaluated the physical health before and after each session by measuring blood pressure and heart rate with automatic blood pressure monitors. The data of participants’ individual experience was collected by using the observation method and was described in the diary of the researcher. Results. Two participants experienced a high risk of somatization before the intervention and only one – after. The level of somatization increased in only one participant and in others – decreased. The results of somatization decreased up to 55%, the lowest positive change was 14%. After the intervention, the anxiety rates of the two subjects decreased by almost 27% and the depression rates of the two subjects decreased also, in one of them even 33%. Half of the participants showed cardiovascular risk before the intervention and there was no one with cardiovascular risk after. Conclusions. The most notable impact of the intervention was on the scores of somatization. The impact on some subjects’ anxiety, depression and cardiovascular risk was also observed. The possibility to reconnect with one’s body and the communion with others were observed as the key aspects of the therapy. |
