디스코 춤을 이용한 간호중재가 정신질환자의 행동에 미치는 영향 = The Effect of the Disco Dance Therapy on the Psychiatric Patient's Behavior

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of the disco dance therapy on psychiatric patient's behavior.
The subjects of this study were selected from the 2 neuropsychiatric wards of Seoul National University Hospital.
The experimental group was 19 patients, who received the disco dance therapy of 45 minutes twice a week for 3 weeks. The control group was 18 patients, who did not receive the disco dance therapy.
An adapted Wyatt and Kupper's Behavior Rating Scale was used as a tool for this study. Wyatt and Kupper's Behavior Rating Scale consisted of 26 items, including 6 factors: anxiety, bizarre behavior, suspicious behavior, anger, depression and withdrawal behavior. The data were collected from July,2,to August, 2,1992.
The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS/PC+ program.
It was confirmed by Cronbach's αanalysis that Wyatt and Kupper's Behavior Rating Scale was a suitable tool to analyze the psychopathic behavior of the subjects (Cronbach's α=.9088).
Chi-Wquare Test, Fisher's Exact Test, and T-Test were used to test the homogeneity of the general characterstics, therapeutic related variables, and the behavioral score before treatment between the two groups. There was no significant difference in homogeneity test between the ??groups. Therefore, it was proved that the experimental and the control group were homogeneous.
The results of the study were as follows:
There was significant difference in psychiatric behavior between the experimental and the control group. In datail, there was significant difference in anger, depression and withdrawal behavior between the experimental and the control group. But there was no significant difference a anxiety, bizarre behavior and suspicious between the two groups.
On the basis of these findings, the following suggestions are proposed.
1. It is necessary to implement the dance therapy as nursing intervention to improve psychiatric patient's behavior because it was proved that disco dance therapy was effective to improve(??) general behavior of psychiatric patient's by this study.
2. Another study will be needed to test the effectiveness of disco dance therapy on not only to psychiatric behavior but also the physical conditions such as vital signs and muscular tension the psychiatric patient.