Avaliação da qualidade de vida antes e após terapia com dança sênior em pacientes hemiparéticos pós-AVE

• Main Authors: Patrícia Cristina de Carvalho, Lucas Andreo Dias Dos Santos, Soraia Micaela Silva, Silvia Sper Cavalli, João Carlos Ferrari Corrêa, Fernanda Ishida Corrêa
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Nove de Julho 2012-01-01
• Series: ConScientiae Saúde
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=92924959007
• ISSN: 1677-1028; 1983-9324

Introduction. Dance can improve the quality of life (QOL) of people who have some psychomotor impairment, however, nothing has been found about dance for seniors in neurological patients. Objective. To assess the quality of life (QOL) in patients with hemiparesis resulting from a stroke, before and after dance therapy for seniors. Methodology. Eight hemiparetic patients answered two QOL questionnaires. SF-36 and SS-QOL. One-hour dance therapy sessions were then held twice a week at the physiotherapy clinic of Uninove, totaling 24 sessions. At the end of the sessions, the questionnaires were reapplied. Descriptive statistics were used to characterize the sample, afterwards, the data were tested for normality with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Wilcoxon tests. The significance level was set at 5%. Results. There was a statistically significant difference in QOL. SF-36 (p = 0.05) and SS-QOL (p = 0.01). Conclusion. The study showed positive results, because there was a significant improvement in the quality of life of patients who participated in the dance therapy.