1. La danse thérapie pour développer les dimensions perceptives chez les patients obèses.
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Muller-Pinget, Solange and Golay, Alain
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OBESITY treatment , *BARIATRIC surgery , *PATIENT education , *CLINICAL trials , *QUALITY of life , *POSTOPERATIVE period , *CONSCIENCE , *DANCE therapy , *SELF-perception - Abstract
Introduction: Obese patients retreat in reduced self-perception due to the weight of their suffering. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of dance therapy on self-perception and quality of life in obese patients and patients at post bariatric surgery. Methods: Four groups similar in weight and age did participate in a dance therapy group. One 36weeks program without control group, one 16weeks program with a control group and one 18 weeks program for patients at one year post bariatric surgery. We measured self esteem, body esteem, quality of life, body awareness, and mental representation of body shape before and after dance therapy in each group. Results: Dance therapy improves all these elements except the mental representation of body shape which stayed inadequate in each group. The control group did not improve neither the qualilty of life nor the self-esteem. Conclusion: A short or a long program in dance therapy contributes to the transformation of self-perception which improves the quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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