Impact of the Implementation of Dance Therapy Workshops on the Quality of Life of Adults With Disabilities Institutionalized Within the Medico-social Establishments of the Univi Group: Longitudinal Intervention Study
Impact of the Implementation of Dance Therapy Workshops on the Quality of Life of Adults With Disabilities Institutionalized Within the Medico-social Establishments of the Univi Group: Longitudinal Intervention Study
Dance is a multimodal activity involving motor, cognitive, sensory and sensory-motor skills as well as emotional and social skills. A growing body of research shows that the creative arts and physical exercise are able to alleviate disability, improve social interactions.
The Associative Group UNIVI wants to evaluate through this study the effects of the practice of dance on the quality of life of the disabled adults accomodates in social medical establishments of UNIVI group
this research is an interventional study involving the human person of category 2 involving only minimal risks and constraints, it is multicentric and longitudinal prospective. This is a before/after study to measure the effects of the implementation of a dance therapy activity on the quality of life of the adults with disabilities housed in the 5 establishments of the univi group.
The dance therapy will be deployed in all the medico-social establishments participating in the study over a period of 12 weeks.
To do this, dance therapists will be recruited to provide these classes.
The dance-therapy will be carried out:
in groups of 10 to 12 people who have given their informed consent,
at least twice a week per group,
over a period of 30 to 45 minutes maximum twice a week for 3 months. Several groups per establishment can be planned depending on the number of people who can and want to be included in the dance workshop.
940 participant in the study will be inclued and followed at 1 month, 3 months and 6 months after the end of the dance therapy workshops.
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