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Effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients
AIMS: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of juggling therapy for anxiety disorder patients. DESIGN AND METHOD: Subjects were 17 female outpatients who met the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders. Subjects were treated with standard psychotherapy, medication and counseli...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1876467/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17470298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-1-10 |
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author | Nakahara, Toshihiro Nakahara, Kazuhiko Uehara, Miho Koyama, Ken-ichiro Li, Kouha Harada, Toshiro Yasuhara, Daisuke Taguchi, Hikaru Kojima, Sinya Sagiyama, Ken-ichiro Inui, Akio |
author_facet | Nakahara, Toshihiro Nakahara, Kazuhiko Uehara, Miho Koyama, Ken-ichiro Li, Kouha Harada, Toshiro Yasuhara, Daisuke Taguchi, Hikaru Kojima, Sinya Sagiyama, Ken-ichiro Inui, Akio |
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description | AIMS: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of juggling therapy for anxiety disorder patients. DESIGN AND METHOD: Subjects were 17 female outpatients who met the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders. Subjects were treated with standard psychotherapy, medication and counseling for 6 months. For the last 3 months of treatment, subjects were randomized into either a non-juggling group (n = 9) or a juggling therapy group (juggling group: n = 8). The juggling group gradually acquired juggling skills by practicing juggling beanbags (otedama in Japan) with both hands. The therapeutic effect was evaluated using scores of psychological testing (STAI: State and Trate Anxiety Inventry, POMS: Profile of Mood Status) and of ADL (FAI: Franchay Activity Index) collected before treatment, 3 months after treatment (before juggling therapy), and at the end of both treatments. RESULTS: After 6 months, an analysis of variance revealed that scores on the state anxiety, trait anxiety subscales of STAI and tension-anxiety (T-A) score of POMS were significantly lower in the juggling group than in the non-juggling group (p < 0.01). Depression, anger-hostility scores of POMS were improved more than non-jugglers. In the juggling group, activity scores on the vigor subscale of POMS and FAI score were significantly higher than those in the non juggling group (p < 0.01). Other mood scores of POMS did not differ between the two groups. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that juggling therapy may be effective for the treatment of anxiety disorders. |
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spelling | pubmed-18764672007-05-23 Effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients Nakahara, Toshihiro Nakahara, Kazuhiko Uehara, Miho Koyama, Ken-ichiro Li, Kouha Harada, Toshiro Yasuhara, Daisuke Taguchi, Hikaru Kojima, Sinya Sagiyama, Ken-ichiro Inui, Akio Biopsychosoc Med Short Report AIMS: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of juggling therapy for anxiety disorder patients. DESIGN AND METHOD: Subjects were 17 female outpatients who met the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders. Subjects were treated with standard psychotherapy, medication and counseling for 6 months. For the last 3 months of treatment, subjects were randomized into either a non-juggling group (n = 9) or a juggling therapy group (juggling group: n = 8). The juggling group gradually acquired juggling skills by practicing juggling beanbags (otedama in Japan) with both hands. The therapeutic effect was evaluated using scores of psychological testing (STAI: State and Trate Anxiety Inventry, POMS: Profile of Mood Status) and of ADL (FAI: Franchay Activity Index) collected before treatment, 3 months after treatment (before juggling therapy), and at the end of both treatments. RESULTS: After 6 months, an analysis of variance revealed that scores on the state anxiety, trait anxiety subscales of STAI and tension-anxiety (T-A) score of POMS were significantly lower in the juggling group than in the non-juggling group (p < 0.01). Depression, anger-hostility scores of POMS were improved more than non-jugglers. In the juggling group, activity scores on the vigor subscale of POMS and FAI score were significantly higher than those in the non juggling group (p < 0.01). Other mood scores of POMS did not differ between the two groups. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that juggling therapy may be effective for the treatment of anxiety disorders. BioMed Central 2007-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC1876467/ /pubmed/17470298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-1-10 Text en Copyright © 2007 Nakahara et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Nakahara, Toshihiro Nakahara, Kazuhiko Uehara, Miho Koyama, Ken-ichiro Li, Kouha Harada, Toshiro Yasuhara, Daisuke Taguchi, Hikaru Kojima, Sinya Sagiyama, Ken-ichiro Inui, Akio Effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients |
title | Effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients |
title_full | Effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients |
title_fullStr | Effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients |
title_short | Effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients |
title_sort | effect of juggling therapy on anxiety disorders in female patients |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1876467/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17470298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-1-10 |
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