"We're All Here to Be Dancers Together": Perspectives on Facilitating Dance Classes for Individuals With Parkinson's.

IF 1.7 3区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI:10.1123/apaq.2024-0116

Jenna Magrath, Sarah J Kenny, Meghan S Ingstrup, Lindsay Morrison, Vanessa Paglione, Meghan H McDonough, Cari Din

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Abstract

Parkinson's is a progressive neurological disorder impacting physical, cognitive, emotional, and sensory functions. Dance is a form of physical activity that can offer social, psychological, and physical benefits and enhance quality of life for individuals with Parkinson's. This study explored program facilitators' perceptions and experiences facilitating a community dance class for individuals with Parkinson's through the lens of physical literacy. Six program facilitators (four instructors, one volunteer, and one musical accompanist) of a weekly community dance class participated in semistructured interviews. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis, generating three themes: (a) Dance as tuning into one's self: Enriching the body, mind, and spirit; (b) Everybody can dance: Feeling successful and fostering confidence; and (c) Looking forward to Tuesdays: Promoting connection, belonging, and community. This study provides insight into the teaching practices, as well as the design and facilitation of community dance classes for individuals with Parkinson's.

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Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly 医学-康复医学

CiteScore

3.00

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10.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： APAQ is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry relating to physical activity that is adapted in order to enable and enhance performance and participation in people with disability. Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement including physical education, recreation, exercise, sport, and dance. The focus of adaptation may be the activity or task that is to be performed, environment and facilities, equipment, instructional methodology, and/or rules governing the performance setting. Among the populations considered are persons with motor, intellectual, sensory, and mental or other disabilities across the life span. Disciplines from which scholarship to this aim may originate include, but are not limited to, physical education, teacher preparation, human development, motor behavior and learning, biomechanics, exercise and sport physiology, and exercise and sport psychology. Scientific inquiry may originate from quantitative or qualitative inquiry, as well as from multimethod designs.