Mental Health in Dancers; an Intervention Study

Summary

International studies reveal high prevalence of eating disorders (ED) and mental health issues amongst professional dancers, and the Norwegian National Ballet's house previously (2005) reported a lifetime prevalence of ED by 50% amongst female ballet dancers. Mental health issues and ED have been acknowledged for several years in most sports; still the same do not apply to dance sports. The objective of this study is to improve the knowledge on prevalence of mental health issues in professional dancers and the corresponding awareness of such among dance teachers. Additional objectives are to evaluate the effect of an intervention aimed to improve knowledge on nutrition, recovery strategies and mental health literacy among professional dancers and their teachers.

Conditions

• Mental Health Impairment
• Mental Health
• Eating Disorders
• Perfectionism
• Depression, Anxiety
• Coping Behavior
• Self Esteem
• Body Image
• Body Weight

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mental health literacy in dancers

Receive a designed informative intervention (3 workshops of 90min each) aimed at improving their knowledge and skills on proper recovery, performance nutrition, and mental health literacy.

BEHAVIORAL

Mental health literacy in dance teachers

Receive a designed informative intervention (3 workshops of 60min each) aimed at improving their knowledge and skills on how to identify and deal with mental health- and nutritional issues in dancers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Norwegian association for youth mental health

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Østfold University College

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Beate Anstensrud, MSc · Norwegian association for youth mental health

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

40 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-09-05

Primary Completion

2020-09-01

Completion

2021-01-31

Countries

• Norway

Study Locations