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Neuropsychological and Electrophysiological Effects of Dance Therapy With People With Severe Mental Disorders

NCT06219265 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 47

Last updated 2024-01-23

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Summary

A single-centre prospective randomised controlled trial will be conducted with a minimum of 47 patients with severe mental disorder (SMD) who will be randomly assigned into two groups, 1 intervention group receiving dance therapy (n=26) and 1 control group who will not receive any intervention or added treatment apart from continuing with their usual treatment (pharmacological), but will not receive intervention with dance therapy (n=21).

In summary, the groups are:

* Experimental group (n=26): people with SMD receiving dance therapy.
* Control group (n=21): people with SMD who do not receive the dance therapy intervention but do receive their usual pharmacological treatment.

Tests will be administered before the start of the study and at the end of the study, as well as 3 months after the end of the study in order to compare the results between groups.

Conditions

  • Severe Mental Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Dance Therapy

A single-centre prospective randomised controlled trial will be conducted with a minimum of 48 patients with severe mental disorder (SMD) who will be randomised into two groups, 1 intervention group receiving dance therapy (n=24) and 1 control group receiving no intervention or treatment (n=24). In addition, there will be an intervention group of healthy people who will receive dance therapy (n=20). All the tests, will be carried out with patients with SMD and only the EEG for healthy people, in order to determine their baseline state. The dance therapy program will last for 20 sessions over 10 weeks. The 44 people in the two experimental groups will participate in a 10-week intervention program with 2 sessions per week in which they will work for 1 hour on memory, attention and executive functions through dance and movement, ending with 10 minutes of Mindfulness. The 24 people in the control group will not receive any type of intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Asociación Canaria de Terapias Creativas (ASCATEC)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nayra Caballero Estebaranz · ASCATEC and European University of the Canary Islands

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-09-12
Primary Completion
2024-01-15
Completion
2024-09-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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