Effect of dance movement therapy in anxiety and stress for the well-being of young adult population in Jalandhar, Punjab.

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Mogili. Surekha , Suresh Mani , Reinai Thaiba

Anxiety, Stress, Dance movement therapy, Hamilton anxiety scale, Perceived stress scale, International physical activity questionnaire.

ABSTRACT Background: Mental health illnesses such as anxiety and stress are the most common problems for most of the population in all over the world. Youth are the building blocks of the nation. Anxiety and stress are the initial aspects of affecting of healthy well-being of the individual. Traditional therapies conducted for anxiety and stress previously are psychological counselling cognitive behavioural therapy, creative art therapies, Jacobson’s relaxation techniques, and progressive relaxation exercises. Literature shows that mental health management needs more therapeutic methods for the population. Researchers in a few studies done on DMT shown that this therapy helps in the psychological outcomes of the individual. Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of dance movement therapy for anxiety and stress in young adult population. Research Methodology: 60 subjects were taken in the study three groups for anxiety, stress and both anxiety and stress were treated with DMT. Anxiety group (20 subjects), stress group (20 subjects) and anxiety and stress group (20 subjects) were given DMT for 15 sessions in 5 weeks. Individual and group sessions were conducted of DMT. Results: the analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to analyse the difference of efficacy of DMT between the three groups. There was a significant effect of DMT for anxiety and stress at the p-value of (p < 0.001). the study findings confirm that DMT is helpful for anxiety and stress subjects in young adults. Conclusion: The therapeutic experience with the subjects shows that DMT is more beneficial than other traditional therapies done previously for anxiety and stress management in young adults, but there is need to check the efficacy with a high-quality study on a larger sample size.

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Mogili. Surekha, Suresh Mani, & Reinai Thaiba (June-2024). Effect of dance movement therapy in anxiety and stress for the well-being of young adult population in Jalandhar, Punjab.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(6), d703-d725. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2406363.pdf

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Country: Phagwara, Punjab, India

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