Symposium: Support groups for women with breast cancer: Traditional and alternative expressive approaches

Serlin, Ilene; Classen, Catherine; Frances, Barbara; Angell, Karyn

doi:10.1016/s0197-4556(99)00035-0

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“…The eight point score refers to the study of Molinaro et al 23 , as a clinical case report does not present statistical purposes, making it impossible to make a evaluation of results, which also happens to studies that use qualitative analyses, such as Serlin et al 32 , and Blázquez et al 27 . Blinding was one of the characteristics that had lower scores in the evaluation.…”

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“…Reports of interventions were found within the modalities of jazz, classical ballet 23 and Greek dance 24 , sacred dance 25 and ballrrom dance 26 . Nevertheless, the other seven articles described their intervention protocols based on techniques of dance/movement therapy [27][28][29][30][31][32][33] . There was a variation in terms of the intervention period (three weeks to 24 weeks), weekly rate (one to three sessions a week) and duration of the session (one to three hours).…”

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“…Research variables were categorized into psychological and physical in all included studies [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] , but investigation on both physical and physiological variables were identified only in four studies [23][24][25][26] . In relation to psychological aspects only, all 11 studies investigated these variables.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Favorable results were found for social functioning (p = 0.040), mental health (p = 0.040) and role emotional (p = 0.070) 26 , welfare aspect and mood (p < 0.050) 29 quality of life on psychological (p = 0.001) and environment (p = 0.029) 25 , general quality of life (p < 0.050), body image (p < 0.010) 31 , improvements in satisfaction with life (p = 0.001) and also a reduction in depressive symptoms (p = 0.010) 24 , fear of recurrence (p = 0.020) 28 , perceived stress (p < 0.050), pain severity and pain Some studies presented only qualitative perceptions on psychological variables, and statistical calculations were not carried. Two of them present benefits in relation to body image 23,33 , and other two promoted improvement in mental health as alleviation of depression and anxiety 27,32 . Eight studies investigated physical variables and showed important results after intervention with dance.…”

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“…Were found improvements in functional capacity (p = 0.030), physical activity (p = 0.010) 26 , force and fatigue (p < 0.050) 29 , range of motion of the arm affected (p < 0.001) 31 , physical function (p = 0.001), left and right hand grip strength (p = 0.001), volume of the left arm (p = 0.028) 24 , and physical aspects of quality of life (p < 0.001) 25 . Statistical calculations were not carried out in some studies, but they presented some qualitative improvemets in physical variables as Serlin et al 32 in fatigue, vigor and tension, Blázquez et al 27 in physical aspects, Ho et al 33 improvement in total functioning and physical symptoms. …”

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confidence: 99%

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Dance as treatment therapy in breast cancer patients – a systematic review

Boing¹,

Rafael²,

Braga³

et al. 2017

Rev Bras Ativ Fís Saúde

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This systematic review aimed to identify and analyse original articles which investigated the influence of dance as adjuvant therapy in breast cancer. The selected databases were PsycInfo, PubMed, The Cochrane Library, ScienceDirect and the Virtual Health Library (VHL). present in the titles or abstracts of the articles. The quality of the data was evaluated by means of the methodological criteria proposed by Downs and Black. We identified 69 articles initially, of which only 11 were selected and analyzed. The approach followed in methodologies were dance therapy movement, Greek dance, Sacred dance, ballroom dance, classical ballet and jazz. Favorable results were found for self-image, femininity, mood, self-esteem, physical well-being, perceived stress, pain, consciousness, depression, couples trust, anxiety and fear. It was observed better range of motion and strength in upper limp, and also improvement in functional capacity. The authors pointed dance as an effective alternative adjuvant treatment in breast cancer. Dance promotes psychological benefits in women in breast cancer, as well as improvements strength and range of motion in upper limbs. Future studies are recommended with best scientific evidence, in order to investigate interventions with dance during other treatment and disease stage and with other forms of dance. KeywordsBreast Cancer; Dancing; Therapeutics. Resumo Esta revisão sistemática teve como objetivo identificar e analisar os artigos originais que investigaram a influência da dança como terapia adjuvante no câncer de mama. Foram determinadas como bases de dados para as buscas: PsycInfo, PubMed, The Cochrane Library, ScienceDirect e a Biblioteca Virtual da Saúde (BVS). Os seguintes descritores foram utilizados [dance therapy] OR [movement therapy] OR [complementary therapies] AND [breast cancer] OR [cancer neoplasms] OR [breast tumor] OR [breast carcinoma] presentes nos títulos ou resumos dos trabalhos. A qualidade dos trabalhos foi investigada pela Escala metodológica Palavras-chaveCâncer de mama; Dança; Terapia.Dance as treatment therapy in breast cancer patients -a systematic review Dança como tratamento terapêutico em pacientes com câncer de mama -uma revisão sistemática

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confidence: 99%