Palo-Bengtsson L, Winblad B, Ekman S L
Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Family Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 1998 Dec;5(6):545-54. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2850.1998.560545.x.
Dementia causes serious impairments and the inability to perform those activities which give meaning to a person's life. Therefore, these persons are in need of professional nursing care interventions as well as a special supporting environment. In this study, social dancing has been regarded as a nursing intervention that supports persons with dementia in nursing home settings. The aim was to find out how persons with dementia functioned in social dance sessions, in order to understand the reasons behind the use of social dancing as a nursing intervention in a nursing home setting. Six persons with dementia were videotaped during four dance sessions in one nursing home. The qualitative content analyses were carried out deductively, using a guide developed from the variables in the Gottfries, Bråne and Steen rating scale (GBS scale). The findings show that, for persons with dementia, retained abilities were prominent in dancing. It was obvious that social dancing was supportive and seemed to have meaning to both patients and their carers. Social dancing seems to be a nursing intervention that supports patients' positive feelings, communication and behaviour. The carers' preunderstanding of the patients' levels of dementia and the wholeness of the situation was of importance.
痴呆症会导致严重的功能障碍，使人无法从事那些赋予生活意义的活动。因此，这些人需要专业的护理干预以及特殊的支持性环境。在本研究中，社交舞蹈被视为一种护理干预措施，用于支持养老院中的痴呆症患者。目的是了解痴呆症患者在社交舞蹈活动中的表现，以便理解在养老院环境中使用社交舞蹈作为护理干预措施的背后原因。在一家养老院的四次舞蹈活动中，对六名痴呆症患者进行了录像。采用从哥特弗里德、布拉内和斯滕评定量表（GBS量表）中的变量开发的指南，进行了演绎式的定性内容分析。研究结果表明，对于痴呆症患者来说，在舞蹈中保留的能力很突出。很明显，社交舞蹈具有支持作用，而且对患者及其护理人员似乎都有意义。社交舞蹈似乎是一种支持患者积极情绪、沟通和行为的护理干预措施。护理人员对患者痴呆程度和整体情况的预先了解很重要。
