Biodance in elderly adults with chronic diseases for the promotion of health

Biodanza en adultos mayores con enfermedades crónicas para la promoción de la salud

Objectives: to reveal the meaning that a participation in the Biodanza Workshop had for a group of elder adults and the relationship between their opinion and the living lines of the Biodanza, second semester of 2015, Faculty of Medicine, University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Materials and methods: qualitative research, by means of natural semantic networks technique. Population of 19 older adults with chronic diseases, all of them from different sectors of the city, who individually - with prior informed consent - were asked to write in five minutes six words related to the stimulus question: What did you feel when you participated in the biodance workshop? prioritizing them later from one to six, corresponding one of greater value. Analysis carried out by means of progressive reduction of the information according to the before mentioned technique. The rigor of the study was guarded by triangulation of researchers. Results: the meaning of the Biodance for the participants is to achieve a rewarding emotional state feeling free and autonomous. Their expressions reflect the agreement with the five experiential lines.