Dancing With Health: Quality of Life and Physical Improvements From an EU Collaborative Dance Programme With Women Following Breast Cancer Treatment
Background: Women's health has received renewed attention in the last few years including health rehabilitation options for women affected by breast cancer. Dancing has often been regarded as one attractive option for supporting women's well-being and health, but research with women recove...
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| author | Vicky Karkou Irene Dudley-Swarbrick Jennifer Starkey Ailsa Parsons Supritha Aithal Joanna Omylinska-Thurston Helena M. Verkooijen Rosalie van den Boogaard Yoanna Dochevska Stefka Djobova Ivaylo Zdravkov Ivelina Dimitrova Aldona Moceviciene Adriana Bonifacino Alexis Matua Asumi Dolores Forgione Andrea Ferrari Elisa Grazioli Claudia Cerulli Eliana Tranchita Massimo Sacchetti Attilio Parisi |
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| description | Background: Women's health has received renewed attention in the last few years including health rehabilitation options for women affected by breast cancer. Dancing has often been regarded as one attractive option for supporting women's well-being and health, but research with women recovering from breast cancer is still in its infancy. Dancing with Health is multi-site pilot study that aimed to evaluate a dance programme for women in recovery from breast cancer across five European countries.Methods: A standardized 32 h dance protocol introduced a range of Latin American dances presented within a sports and exercise framework with influences from dance movement therapy. Fifty-four women (M age 53.51; SD 7.99) participated in the study who had a breast cancer diagnosis <3 years, chemotherapy >6 weeks, no indication of metastasis, or scheduled surgery/chemotherapy/radiation treatment for the duration of the intervention. Primary outcome data was collected for anthropometric and fitness measures next to cancer-related quality of life. T-tests and Wilcoxon signed ranked tests were used to establish differences pre and post intervention. Cohen's d was also calculated to determine the effect size of the intervention.Results: Statistically significant changes were found for: (i) weight, right and left forearm circumference and hip; (ii) 6 min walking, right and left handgrip, sit-to-stand and sit-and-reach; (iii) the EORTC-QLQ C30 summary score as well as the subscales of emotional and social functioning and symptoms. In all cases the direction of change was positive, while Cohen's d calculated showed that the effect of the intervention for these parameters ranged from intermediate to large.Conclusion: Changes on the above anthropometric, fitness and quality of life measures suggest that the intervention was of value to the participating women recovering from breast cancer. Results also advocate collaborative efforts across countries to further research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7100628751da4daa8c433848124196832022-12-21T23:06:11ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-02-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.635578635578Dancing With Health: Quality of Life and Physical Improvements From an EU Collaborative Dance Programme With Women Following Breast Cancer TreatmentVicky Karkou0Irene Dudley-Swarbrick1Jennifer Starkey2Ailsa Parsons3Supritha Aithal4Joanna Omylinska-Thurston5Helena M. Verkooijen6Rosalie van den Boogaard7Yoanna Dochevska8Stefka Djobova9Ivaylo Zdravkov10Ivelina Dimitrova11Aldona Moceviciene12Adriana Bonifacino13Alexis Matua Asumi14Dolores Forgione15Andrea Ferrari16Elisa Grazioli17Claudia Cerulli18Eliana Tranchita19Massimo Sacchetti20Attilio Parisi21Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United KingdomResearch Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United KingdomResearch Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United KingdomResearch Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United KingdomResearch Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United KingdomResearch Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United KingdomUniversity Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, NetherlandsUniversity Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, NetherlandsBulgarian Sports Development Association, Sofia, BulgariaBulgarian Sports Development Association, Sofia, BulgariaBulgarian Sports Development Association, Sofia, BulgariaBulgarian Sports Development Association, Sofia, BulgariaKlaipeda Regional Women's Information Center, Klaipeda, LithuaniaIncontraDonna, Rome, ItalyIncontraDonna, Rome, ItalyIstituto Europeo per lo Sviluppo Socio Economico, Alessandria, ItalyIstituto Europeo per lo Sviluppo Socio Economico, Alessandria, ItalyDepartment of Human Movement Sciences and Health, Università degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Human Movement Sciences and Health, Università degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Human Movement Sciences and Health, Università degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Human Movement Sciences and Health, Università degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Human Movement Sciences and Health, Università degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico, Rome, ItalyBackground: Women's health has received renewed attention in the last few years including health rehabilitation options for women affected by breast cancer. Dancing has often been regarded as one attractive option for supporting women's well-being and health, but research with women recovering from breast cancer is still in its infancy. Dancing with Health is multi-site pilot study that aimed to evaluate a dance programme for women in recovery from breast cancer across five European countries.Methods: A standardized 32 h dance protocol introduced a range of Latin American dances presented within a sports and exercise framework with influences from dance movement therapy. Fifty-four women (M age 53.51; SD 7.99) participated in the study who had a breast cancer diagnosis <3 years, chemotherapy >6 weeks, no indication of metastasis, or scheduled surgery/chemotherapy/radiation treatment for the duration of the intervention. Primary outcome data was collected for anthropometric and fitness measures next to cancer-related quality of life. T-tests and Wilcoxon signed ranked tests were used to establish differences pre and post intervention. Cohen's d was also calculated to determine the effect size of the intervention.Results: Statistically significant changes were found for: (i) weight, right and left forearm circumference and hip; (ii) 6 min walking, right and left handgrip, sit-to-stand and sit-and-reach; (iii) the EORTC-QLQ C30 summary score as well as the subscales of emotional and social functioning and symptoms. In all cases the direction of change was positive, while Cohen's d calculated showed that the effect of the intervention for these parameters ranged from intermediate to large.Conclusion: Changes on the above anthropometric, fitness and quality of life measures suggest that the intervention was of value to the participating women recovering from breast cancer. Results also advocate collaborative efforts across countries to further research.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635578/fullphysical activitydancedance movement therapybreast cancerevaluation |
| spellingShingle | Vicky Karkou Irene Dudley-Swarbrick Jennifer Starkey Ailsa Parsons Supritha Aithal Joanna Omylinska-Thurston Helena M. Verkooijen Rosalie van den Boogaard Yoanna Dochevska Stefka Djobova Ivaylo Zdravkov Ivelina Dimitrova Aldona Moceviciene Adriana Bonifacino Alexis Matua Asumi Dolores Forgione Andrea Ferrari Elisa Grazioli Claudia Cerulli Eliana Tranchita Massimo Sacchetti Attilio Parisi Dancing With Health: Quality of Life and Physical Improvements From an EU Collaborative Dance Programme With Women Following Breast Cancer Treatment Frontiers in Psychology physical activity dance dance movement therapy breast cancer evaluation |
| title | Dancing With Health: Quality of Life and Physical Improvements From an EU Collaborative Dance Programme With Women Following Breast Cancer Treatment |
| title_full | Dancing With Health: Quality of Life and Physical Improvements From an EU Collaborative Dance Programme With Women Following Breast Cancer Treatment |
| title_fullStr | Dancing With Health: Quality of Life and Physical Improvements From an EU Collaborative Dance Programme With Women Following Breast Cancer Treatment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dancing With Health: Quality of Life and Physical Improvements From an EU Collaborative Dance Programme With Women Following Breast Cancer Treatment |
| title_short | Dancing With Health: Quality of Life and Physical Improvements From an EU Collaborative Dance Programme With Women Following Breast Cancer Treatment |
| title_sort | dancing with health quality of life and physical improvements from an eu collaborative dance programme with women following breast cancer treatment |
| topic | physical activity dance dance movement therapy breast cancer evaluation |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635578/full |
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