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Sailing for Rehabilitation of Patients with Severe Mental Disorders: Results of a Cross Over Randomized Controlled Trial

This study set out to evaluate the effectiveness of a sailing and learning-to-sail rehabilitation protocol in a sample of patients diagnosed with severe mental disorders. The study was a randomized, crossover, waiting-list controlled trial, following recruitment in the Departments of Mental Health o...

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Autores principales: Carta, Mauro G, Maggiani, Federica, Pilutzu, Laura, Moro, Maria F, Mura, Gioia, Cadoni, Federica, Sancassiani, Federica, Vellante, Marcello, Machado, Sergio, Preti, Antonio
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Publicado: Bentham Open 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4150377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25191520
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1745017901410010073
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author Carta, Mauro G
Maggiani, Federica
Pilutzu, Laura
Moro, Maria F
Mura, Gioia
Cadoni, Federica
Sancassiani, Federica
Vellante, Marcello
Machado, Sergio
Preti, Antonio
author_facet Carta, Mauro G
Maggiani, Federica
Pilutzu, Laura
Moro, Maria F
Mura, Gioia
Cadoni, Federica
Sancassiani, Federica
Vellante, Marcello
Machado, Sergio
Preti, Antonio
author_sort Carta, Mauro G
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description This study set out to evaluate the effectiveness of a sailing and learning-to-sail rehabilitation protocol in a sample of patients diagnosed with severe mental disorders. The study was a randomized, crossover, waiting-list controlled trial, following recruitment in the Departments of Mental Health of South Sardinia. Participants were outpatients diagnosed with severe mental disorders, recruited through announcements to the directors of the Departments of Mental Health of South Sardinia. Out of the 40 patients enrolled in the study, those exposed to rehabilitation with sailing during a series of guided and supervised sea expeditions near the beach of Cagliari (Sardinia), where the aim to explore the marine environment while sailing was emphasized, showed a statistically significant improvement of their clinical status (measured by BPRS) and, as well, of their general functioning (measured by HoNOS Scale) against the control group. The improvement was maintained at follow-up for some months only: after 12 months, the patients returned to their baseline values on the measures of psychopathology and showed a worsening trend of their quality of life. Sailing can represent a substitute of important experiences that the patients with severe mental disorders miss because of their illness.
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spelling pubmed-41503772014-09-04 Sailing for Rehabilitation of Patients with Severe Mental Disorders: Results of a Cross Over Randomized Controlled Trial Carta, Mauro G Maggiani, Federica Pilutzu, Laura Moro, Maria F Mura, Gioia Cadoni, Federica Sancassiani, Federica Vellante, Marcello Machado, Sergio Preti, Antonio Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health Article This study set out to evaluate the effectiveness of a sailing and learning-to-sail rehabilitation protocol in a sample of patients diagnosed with severe mental disorders. The study was a randomized, crossover, waiting-list controlled trial, following recruitment in the Departments of Mental Health of South Sardinia. Participants were outpatients diagnosed with severe mental disorders, recruited through announcements to the directors of the Departments of Mental Health of South Sardinia. Out of the 40 patients enrolled in the study, those exposed to rehabilitation with sailing during a series of guided and supervised sea expeditions near the beach of Cagliari (Sardinia), where the aim to explore the marine environment while sailing was emphasized, showed a statistically significant improvement of their clinical status (measured by BPRS) and, as well, of their general functioning (measured by HoNOS Scale) against the control group. The improvement was maintained at follow-up for some months only: after 12 months, the patients returned to their baseline values on the measures of psychopathology and showed a worsening trend of their quality of life. Sailing can represent a substitute of important experiences that the patients with severe mental disorders miss because of their illness. Bentham Open 2014-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4150377/ /pubmed/25191520 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1745017901410010073 Text en © Carta et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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Carta, Mauro G
Maggiani, Federica
Pilutzu, Laura
Moro, Maria F
Mura, Gioia
Cadoni, Federica
Sancassiani, Federica
Vellante, Marcello
Machado, Sergio
Preti, Antonio
Sailing for Rehabilitation of Patients with Severe Mental Disorders: Results of a Cross Over Randomized Controlled Trial
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title_full Sailing for Rehabilitation of Patients with Severe Mental Disorders: Results of a Cross Over Randomized Controlled Trial
title_fullStr Sailing for Rehabilitation of Patients with Severe Mental Disorders: Results of a Cross Over Randomized Controlled Trial
title_full_unstemmed Sailing for Rehabilitation of Patients with Severe Mental Disorders: Results of a Cross Over Randomized Controlled Trial
title_short Sailing for Rehabilitation of Patients with Severe Mental Disorders: Results of a Cross Over Randomized Controlled Trial
title_sort sailing for rehabilitation of patients with severe mental disorders: results of a cross over randomized controlled trial
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4150377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25191520
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1745017901410010073
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