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Theatre Is a Valid Add-On Therapeutic Intervention for Emotional Rehabilitation of Parkinson's Disease Patients.

Authors :
Mirabella G
De Vita P
Fragola M
Rampelli S
Lena F
Dilettuso F
Iacopini M
d'Avella R
Borgese MC
Mazzotta S
Lanni D
Grano M
Lubrani S
Modugno N
Source :
Parkinson's disease [Parkinsons Dis] 2017; Vol. 2017, pp. 7436725. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Nov 22.
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

Conventional medical treatments of Parkinson's disease (PD) are effective on motor disturbances but may have little impact on nonmotor symptoms, especially psychiatric ones. Thus, even when motor symptomatology improves, patients might experience deterioration in their quality of life. We have shown that 3 years of active theatre is a valid complementary intervention for PD as it significantly improves the well-being of patients in comparison to patients undergoing conventional physiotherapy. Our aim was to replicate these findings while improving the efficacy of the treatment. We ran a single-blinded pilot study lasting 15 months on 24 subjects with moderate idiopathic PD. 12 were assigned to a theatre program in which patients underwent "emotional" training. The other 12 underwent group physiotherapy. Patients were evaluated at the beginning and at the end of their treatments, using a battery of eight clinical and five neuropsychological scales. We found that the emotional theatre training improved the emotional well-being of patients, whereas physiotherapy did not. Interestingly, neither of the groups showed improvements in either motor symptoms or cognitive abilities tested by the neuropsychological battery. We confirmed that theatre therapy might be helpful in improving emotional well-being in PD.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2090-8083
Volume :
2017
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Parkinson's disease
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
29359066
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7436725