Mental Health in Dancers; an Intervention Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 190
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in symptoms of eating disorders
研究概览
简要总结
International studies reveal high prevalence of eating disorders (ED) and mental health issues amongst professional dancers, and the Norwegian National Ballet's house previously (2005) reported a lifetime prevalence of ED by 50% amongst female ballet dancers. Mental health issues and ED have been acknowledged for several years in most sports; still the same do not apply to dance sports. The objective of this study is to improve the knowledge on prevalence of mental health issues in professional dancers and the corresponding awareness of such among dance teachers. Additional objectives are to evaluate the effect of an intervention aimed to improve knowledge on nutrition, recovery strategies and mental health literacy among professional dancers and their teachers.
详细描述
It is well documented that professional dancing increases the risk for, or strongly associates to, mental health issues like eating disorders, anxiety, and compulsive-obsessive disorders. As much as the international sport society has acknowledged the challenges on ED in sport, the same do not apply to dance. The point prevalence of ED in the general european population is about 0.3-4.0%, with a corresponding prevalence amongst professional dancers of 12.0-26.5%. Furthermore, the highest risk for ED among dance discipline is found to be within ballet. There are no reports on prevalence in Norwegian dancers; however, the Norwegian National Ballet's house reports a lifetime prevalence of 50% amongst ballet dancers. Previous studies have identified low knowledge and practice on performance nutrition and weight regulation strategies among dancers and their teachers. Findings indicates high risk of low energy availability, implying a high risk for the many associated negative effects on physical and mental health and performance capacity. Additionally, studies finds high levels of body dissatisfaction, body weight concern, perfectionism and low self-esteem, and also high prevalence of anxiety and depression.
Several intervention studies finds positive effect on body dissatisfaction, disordered eating behaviour, nutritional intake in sport athletes, and also in ballet dancers in the US and Canada. Nevertheless, so far there haven't been any intervention in Norwegian dancers.
The objective with this study is to explore mental health in professional dancers and their knowledge on recovery strategies and nutritional needs, and to implement and evaluate the effect of an intervention designed to improve these aspects. A group of performance art students serves as control to the intervention effect. Additionally this study evaluates the knowledge of these issues amongst dancers and how to deal with such issues, in dance teachers, and aims to implement and evaluate the effect of an intervention designed to improve the knowledge on these aspects.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
By using id-numbers for each respondent in this trial, the outcome assessor will not be able to identify the group of responders.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 40 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •professional dancers at the Norwegian University of dance
- •dance teacher at the Norwegian University of dance
- •art student at the Oslo National Acadmey of the Arts
排除标准
- •Not student or dance teacher at the Norwegian University of dance, or student at the Oslo National Acadmey of the Arts
结局指标
主要结局
Change in symptoms of eating disorders
时间窗: Pre-intervention, post-intervention (4-months), and follow up (6-months post-intervention)
Eating disorder examination questionnaire (EDE-q) by Prof. Fairburn validly assesses the frequency and severity of ED features to produce ED diagnoses according to the DSM-5. It constitutes 22 items scored on a Likert scale from 0-6 and 6 items in which a number of frequency is given for a given eating behavior. The questionnaire is averaged with a global scale and 4 subscales, in which a higher value indicates higher clinical severity. The global score cut-off score indicating probability of an eating disorder in the Norwegian female population is 2.5.
次要结局
- Change in resilience(Pre-intervention, post-intervention (4-months), and follow up (6-months post-intervention))
- Change in energy availability(Pre-intervention, post-intervention (4-months), and follow up (6-months post-intervention))
- Change in self esteem(Pre-intervention, post-intervention (4-months), and follow up (6-months post-intervention))
- Change in body appreciation(Pre-intervention, post-intervention (4-months), and follow up (6-months post-intervention))
- Change in perfectionism(Pre-intervention, post-intervention (4-months), and follow up (6-months post-intervention))
- Change in depression and anxiety(Pre-intervention, post-intervention (4-months), and follow up (6-months post-intervention))
研究者
Professor Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen
Professor
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences