Effect of Dance Movement Therapy on Depression and Anxiety for Persons with Dementia: A Systematic Review

Dance movement therapy（DMT）is a physical and psychological intervention, but there was no meta-analysis of RCTs in the systematic review of DMT for dementia, and the results of RCTs were inconsistent. The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of dance movement therapy on depression and anxiety of persons with dementia in comparison to no treatment, standard care. Six electronic databases (Cochrane, PsycINFO, Web of Science, PubMed, EBSCO, CNKI) were searched through January 2021. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in Chinese and English language were considered, including: (1) population is women and men of all age with dementia and MCI; (2) intervention is dance movement intervention; (3) comparison is no treatment or standard care; (4) outcome is depression or anxiety. The four review authors independently reviewed studies on an abstract/title level and again after reading the full paper, and we independently evaluated methodological quality. Six randomized controlled trials were identified on depression and anxiety symptoms in persons with dementia. The target sample size was 29-842 older adults. Meta-analysis showed there were significant differences in favor of dance in depression (SMD = 1.17, 95% CI: 0.39 to 1.95, P = 0.003), but not in outcomes of anxiety. Trials of high methodological quality, large sample sizes, and clarity in the way the intervention is put together and delivered are needed to assess whether dance movement therapy is an effective intervention on depression and anxiety for persons with dementia.

Psychological Perceptual Analysis Based on Dance Therapy Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Dance is an embodied activity when applied therapeutically, and it can have numerous specific and unspecific health assistances. Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) is a psychotherapeutic process used for the individual’s emotional, cognitive, and physical integration. To automatically synthesize dance movements according to the music, it needs to solve some computational challenges. This paper proposes the Artificial Intelligence assisted Dance Movement Therapy (AIDMT) to predict an individual’s psychological condition. The complete aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of recreational/general dance and dance movement therapy (DMT) on well-being, anxiety, and depression by a convolution neural network (CNN). The research results support the potential usefulness of DMT as a multi-faceted intervention for enhancing different facets of functioning in adolescence with diminishing cognitive abilities. The absence of advantageous effects for our long-term DMT and exercise intervention effects discover the requirement to preserve persistent activity levels with sufficient duration and intensity. Conclusion — The experimental result suggests that AIDMT achieves the highest classification accuracy of 98.03%.

Dance/Movement Therapy as an Intervention in Breast Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review

Aim. In this paper, we systematically review the evidence looking at the effect of dance/movement therapy (DMT) and mental health outcomes and quality of life in breast cancer patients. Method. The literature search was done with the databases PubMed (MEDLINE), EBSCO, and Cochrane Central by using the following search words: “dancing/dance/movement therapy,” “breast cancer/neoplasms/carcinoma/tumour” or “mammary cancer,” “mental health,” and “quality of life.” Ninety-four articles were found. Only empirical interventional studies (N = 6) were selected for the review: randomised controlled trials (RCT) (n = 5) and non-RCT (n = 1). PRISMA guidelines were used. Results. Data from 6 studies including 385 participants who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, were of an average age of 55.7 years, and had participated in DMT programmes for 3–24 weeks were analysed. In each study, the main outcomes that were measured were quality of life, physical activity, stress, and emotional and social well-being. Different questionnaires were used for the evaluation of outcomes. The mental health of the participants who received DMT intervention improved: they reported a better quality of life and decreased stress, symptoms, and fatigue. Conclusion. We found only six studies for review, and some had a small number of participants. However, our findings indicate that DMT could be successfully used as a complimentary therapy in addition to standard cancer treatment for improving the quality of life and mental health of women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. More research is needed to evaluate the complexity of the impact of complimentary therapies. It is possible that DMT could be more effective if used with other therapies.