Id		2552
Author		Niranjan V.; Tarantino G.; Kumar J.; Cassidy N.; Galvin L.; O’Dowd G.; Barnes T.; O’Neill F.; Cullen M.; O’Connor R.; O’Regan A.
Title		Dancing for Health and Wellbeing: A Feasibility Study of Examining Health Impacts of Online Dancing among Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients
Reference		Niranjan V.; Tarantino G.; Kumar J.; Cassidy N.; Galvin L.; O’Dowd G.; Barnes T.; O’Neill F.; Cullen M.; O’Connor R.; O’Regan A. Dancing for Health and Wellbeing: A Feasibility Study of Examining Health Impacts of Online Dancing among Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients,International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 20
Keywords		Aged; Dancing; Feasibility Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Pulmonary Fibrosis; Quality of Life; Surveys and Questionnaires; disease; mental health; public health; quality of life; adult; aged; anxiety; Article; chronic disease; Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire; Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire Self Administered Standardised Format; clinical article; controlled study; dancing; depression; disease control; dyspnea; emotion; European Quality of Life 5 Dimensions 3 Level questionnaire; fatigue; feasibility study; female; health status; human; Ireland; lung fibrosis; male; mental health; middle aged; online system; outcome assessment; quality of life; Student t test; very elderly; visual analog scale; wellbeing; lung fibrosis; psychology; quality of life; questionnaire
Link to article		https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140901042&doi=10.3390%2fijerph192013510&partnerID=40&md5=7eaa8e3dca58b14d35f796eb79d89304
Abstract		Background: Physical activity (PA) is recommended in the management of patients with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) to improve health outcomes. Dance is one such form of PA which is meaningful, valuable, enjoyable and has demonstrated positive physical and mental health effects. Methods: With pre-post design, 16 patients, members of the Irish Lung Fibrosis Association, were enrolled in this study. Once weekly, 75-min dance sessions were delivered for eight weeks via Zoom by an experienced choreographer. Participants completed Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire Self-Administered Standardised Format (CRQ-SAS) and European Quality of Life 5 Dimensions 3 Level Version (EQ-5D-3L) to assess self-rated quality of life. A paired-sample t-test was employed to assess the mean differences between the pre-and post-intervention scores. Results: Most patients (78.57%) were aged over 60 years; with 71.43% diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis more than 3 years ago. We performed an analysis of 10/16 participants who completed the intervention (5 males, 5 females). On CRQ-SAS scale we found, (a) dyspnoea—small to moderate magnitude improvement of 0.5–1.0 among 50%, (b) fatigue—small to moderate magnitude improvement of 0.5–1.0 among 40%, (c) emotional function—small to high magnitude improvement of 0.5–2.0 among 50%, (d) mastery—small magnitude improvement of 0.5 among 20%. Participants reported their health moderate to best on Visual Analogue Scale of EQ-5D-3L which improved by 1–3 scale among 40%. Mental health improved as percentage of not feeling anxious or depressed rose post event from 42.86% to 72.73%. Conclusion: Our findings demonstrate that a virtual dance intervention is acceptable, enjoyable and feasible for improving health outcomes among PF patients. More organised and continuous events in future may reveal cost-benefit ratio and impact on health outcomes. © 2022 by the authors.
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DOI		10.3390/ijerph192013510
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