Let the Body Talk: Preliminary Data of an Open Trial of Dance Movement Therapy for Eating Disorders DOI Open Access

Ilaria Bastoni,

Anna Guerrini Usubini,

Maria Gobetti

et al.

Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(1), P. 5 - 5

Published: Dec. 19, 2023

Background: There is growing support for considering Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) as an effective approach to improving physical and psychological symptoms in eating disorders (ED), but additional evidence needed. The current study aims investigate the effectiveness of a DMT intervention inpatients with ED during in-hospital rehabilitation program reducing emotion dysregulation alexithymia interoceptive awareness. Methods: Forty-nine consecutive inpatient young women (aged between 18 34 years) recruited from clinical center obesity received four group sessions intervention. All participants completed Difficulties Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), Toronto Alexithymia (TAS), Multidimensional Assessment Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) before (Time 0) after 1). Paired-sample t-tests were run assess differences Time 0 1. Results: From pre-to-post interventions, there was significant reduction means all subscales DERS, suggesting improvement regulation competencies, only exception difficulties awareness that increased (p = 0.016). We also found alexithymia, proved by total score TAS < 0.001), improvements suggested scores noticing 0.043), emotional body listening trusting 0.001) MAIA. Conclusion: Overall, our results point towards efficacy dance/movement disorders. Our findings suggest dancing can be considered useful increase regulation, reduce enhance

Language: Английский

Let the Body Talk: Preliminary Data of an Open Trial of Dance Movement Therapy for Eating Disorders DOI Open Access

Ilaria Bastoni,

Anna Guerrini Usubini,

Maria Gobetti

et al.

Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(1), P. 5 - 5

Published: Dec. 19, 2023

Background: There is growing support for considering Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) as an effective approach to improving physical and psychological symptoms in eating disorders (ED), but additional evidence needed. The current study aims investigate the effectiveness of a DMT intervention inpatients with ED during in-hospital rehabilitation program reducing emotion dysregulation alexithymia interoceptive awareness. Methods: Forty-nine consecutive inpatient young women (aged between 18 34 years) recruited from clinical center obesity received four group sessions intervention. All participants completed Difficulties Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), Toronto Alexithymia (TAS), Multidimensional Assessment Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) before (Time 0) after 1). Paired-sample t-tests were run assess differences Time 0 1. Results: From pre-to-post interventions, there was significant reduction means all subscales DERS, suggesting improvement regulation competencies, only exception difficulties awareness that increased (p = 0.016). We also found alexithymia, proved by total score TAS < 0.001), improvements suggested scores noticing 0.043), emotional body listening trusting 0.001) MAIA. Conclusion: Overall, our results point towards efficacy dance/movement disorders. Our findings suggest dancing can be considered useful increase regulation, reduce enhance

Language: Английский

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