• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.647-658
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Korean traditional dance movement training on balance, gait and leg strength in elderly women who are forced to remain at home. Fifteen elderly women of an experimental group between the ages 65 and 75 years who have normal vision and passed the hearing and Romberg test, participated in the 12 weeks' dance movement training. Fourteen subjects of a control group were selected. Korean traditional dance movement training was developed on the basis of Korean traditional dance and music by the authors. It took approximately 50 minutes to perform the dance movement program. The subjects of the experimental group practiced dance training for 3 times a week during 12 weeks. During the 50 minutes workout, the subjects practiced 15 minutes of a warm-up dance, 25 minutes of a conditioning dance, and 10 minutes of a cool-down dance. The intensity for the conditioning phase was between 60% and 65% of age-adjusted maximum heart rates. The balance, gait and leg strength were measured prior to and after the experimental treatment. Total balance scores of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group. Scores of sternal nudge, one leg standing balance and reaching up among 13 items have significantly increased after the dance movement training. Total scores of gait of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group following the korean traditional dance movement training. Scores of experimental group in step height, path deviation and turning while walking among 9 items have increased significantly following 12 weeks of dance movement training. The leg strength of experimental group was significantly higher than those of the control group following the Korean traditional dance movement training. The balance, gait and leg strength have significantly correlated in the experimental group following the Korean traditional dance movement training. The results suggest that Korean traditional dance movement training can improve balance, gait and leg strength in home bound elderly women.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.1299-1304
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to develop a exercise program adopted from Jazz dance and to analyze the effect of the Jazz dance program on the Body composition, Blood components and Bone metabolism and also to study the supplement effects of Iron with Jazz dance. The Jazz dance program was composed of warming-up (10 min), Jazz dance (40 min) and cooling-down (10 min) parts. The 21 adult women between 25 and 35 year were divided into three groups; Jazz dance + iron intake group (7), Jazz dance group (7) and control group (7). The Jazz dance program was applied three times a week and 80 mg intake per day were given. The results were as follows. The body weight and lean body mass were decreased in the Jazz dance + iron intake group. The body fat mass were increased in the Jazz dance + iron intake group. The lean body mass were decreased in the Jazz dance group. The RBC, WBC, Hb were increased in the Jazz dance+iron intake group. The MCV were decreased in the Jazz dance+iron intake group. The WBC, MCHC were increased in the Jazz dance group. The MCHC were decreased in the Jazz dance group. The Deoxypyridinoline, Osteocalcin were decreased in the Jazz dance+iron intake group and the Jazz dance group.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.429-444
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• 1999

This study was performed to explore the effects of a dance therapy on physical and psychological characteristics in the elderly. The design of this study was a non-equivalent pre-post test experiment. The subjects consisted of elderly persons living in a facility located in Suweon and Bucheon. Fifty eight subjects, aged between 65 and 93 years who had normal cognition, sensory function, balance, and resting blood pressure. They underwent tests of balance, flexibility, muscle strength, depression, and anxiety as baseline data before dance therapy, and at 6th week and at the end of the 12nd week after following dance therapy. Twenty seven elderly persons were assigned to the experimental group and participated with the dance therapy between April and July, 1998. The dance therapy was developed by the author with the help of a dance therapist and a physiatrist. This therapy was based on the Marian Chace's dance therapy and Korean traditional dance with music. The dance therapy consists of 50 minutes session, 3 times a week for 12 weeks. One session was consisted of warming-up, expression, catharsis, sharing, and closing stage. The intensity of the dance therapy was at the 40 % of age-adjusted maximum heart rates. Data were analysed with mead standard deviation, Chi-square test, unpaired t-test, repeated measures ANOVA, and Bonferroni multiple regression using SAS program. 1. The results related to the physical characteristics were as follows : 1) The balance (standing on one leg, walking on the balancing bar), flexibility and muscle strength (knee extensor, knee flexor, ankle plantarflexor and dorsiflexor) of the experimental subjects significantly increased over time mere than that of the control subjects. 2) The experimental group had significantly higher score for balance, flexibility, muscle strength of knee extensor, and knee flexor than the control group at the 12nd week after dance therapy. 3) The experimental group had significantly higher score for muscle strength of ankle dorsiflexor and plantarflexor than the control group at the 6th week and the 12nd week after dance therapy. 2. The results related to psychological characteristics were as follows : 1) Scores of Geriatric Depression Scale, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, and Zung's Self-rating Anxiety Scale of the experimental group were significantly decreased over time more than that of the control group. 2) The experimental group had significantly lower score for depression than the control group at the 12nd week after dance therapy. 3) The experimental group had significantly lower score for anxiety than the control group at the 6th week and the 12nd week after dance therapy. The findings showed that the dance therapy could be effective in improving the balances, flexibility, and muscle strength of lower limb, and effective in decreasing the depression and anxiety of the elderly. Additional merits of the dance therapy would be inexpensiveness, easy accessibility, and increasing interpersonal relationship. It can be suggested that the dance therapy is effective in the health promotion of the elderly.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.833-852
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• 1996

Regular long term dance movement could be one of ways to induce improvement of psychophysiological variables, resulting in improvement of quality of life. However, there have been few studies to evaluate the effect of dance movement training on both physiological and psychological variables in the elderly. This study was focused to determine the effect of Korean traditional dance movement training on psychophysiological variables-body weight, body fat, lean body mass, muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, agility, resting heart rate and blood pressure, depression and life satisfaction-in Korean elderly women. Thirty four subjects, aged between 65 and 75years who have normal cognition, sensory function, cerebellum function, cardiovascular function, participated in this study. Seventeen experimental group subjects were selected from E-elderly university in Kyung Gi province, and Seventeen control group subjects were selected from N-welfare facility in Seoul City. Seventeen experimental group subjects participated for 12weeks dance movement program. Korean traditional dance movement program was developed on the basis of Korean traditional dance and music by the author. The program consisted of approximately 50minutes of dance, 3times a week for 12weeks. During 50minutes workout, there were 15minutes of warm-up dancing, 25minutes of conditioning dance and 10minutes of cool-down dancing. The intensity for the conditioning phase was at between 60% and 65% of age-adjusted maximum heart rates. The body weight, body fat, lean body mass, muscle strength(grip strength, leg strength), muscle endurance, flexibility, agility, resting heart rate and blood pressure, depression and life satis-faction were measured prior to and following the experimental treatment. The participants in dance movement were interviewed focusing on subjective feeling following 12 week's regular dance movement. Data were analyzed with mean, standard deviation, percentage of change, X²-test, t-test, and ANCOVA test using SPSS PC/sup +/ program. Subjective feeling was categorized into cognitopsy-chological and physiological responses. Results were obtained as follows : 1) The body weight (F=15.52, p=.000), body fat (F=18.33, p=.000) and lean body mass (F=7.28, p=.011) of the experimental group were significantly lower than those of the control group following the dance movement training. 2) The leg strength (F=30.96, p=.000), muscle endurance (F=9.06, p=.005), agility(F=44.92, 000), flexibility(F=6.84, p=.014) of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group following the dance movement training. There was no significant difference of grip strength(F=.43, p=.515) between experimental and control groups. 3) The heart rate(F=26.96, p=.000), systolic (F=10.40, p=.000) and diastolic(F=3.99, p=.005) blood pressure at rest of the experimental group were significantly lower than those of the control group following the dance movement training. 4) No significant difference of score of depression (F=3.49, p=.071) was observed between experimental and control groups. 5) Score of life satisfaction of experimental group was remarkably higher than that of control group following 12weeks of dance movement training (p<0.05). 6) Thematic responses about the dance movement following the training were positive. "I feel good" was the most frequent among cognitopsychological responses and "I feel lightness of body" was the most frequent among physiological responses. The results suggest that Korean traditional dance movement training can improve psychophysiological variables of Korean elderly.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.1273-1283
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• 1999

This study was done to explore the effects of dance therapy on pulmonary and cognitive functions in the elderly. The design of this study was a non-equivalent pre-post test experiment. The subjects consisted of elderly persons living in a facility located in Kyoungi-Do. Fifty eight subjects had normal cognition, sensory function and resting blood pressure. They underwent tests of pulmonary and cognitive function as baseline data before dance therapy, and at 6th week and at the end of 12nd week after following dance therapy. Twenty seven elderly persons were assigned to the experimental group and participated with the dance therapy. This therapy was based on the Marian Chace's dance therapy and Korean traditional dance with music. The dance therapy consisted of 50 minutes session, 3 times a week for 12 weeks. One session consisted of warming-up, expression, catharsis, sharing and closing stage. the intensity of the dance therapy was at the 40% of age-adjusted maximum heart rates. Data were analyzed with mean, standard deviation, Chi-square test, unpaired t-test, repeated measures ANOVA, and Bonferroni multiple regression using SAS program. The results were as follows : 1. Pulmonary function(forced expiratory volume at one second and forced vital capacity) of the experimental subjects significantly increased over time more than that of the control subjects. 2. The experimental group had significantly higher score for pulmonary function than the control group at the 12nd week after dance therapy. 3. Cognitive function of the experimental subjects significantly increased over time more than that of the control subjects. 4. The experimental group had significantly higher score for cognitive function than the control group at the 6th week and 12nd week after dance therapy. The findings showed the dance therapy could be effective in improving the pulmonary and cognitive function of the elderly.

• Korean Journal of Exercise Nutrition
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.69-73
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• 2010

The present study aims to discover the effects of Dance sports program upon the hormone reaction of middle aged women. For this aim, 18 women in their 40 s were randomly selected and assigned to the experiment group and control group, evenly. The experiment group underwent a 12-week lesson of Dance sports program. Before training, and 4, 8 and 12 weeks after the onset of the lesson, the effects of hormone reaction of the group were investigated and the outcomes of the analysis could be concluded as follows: Both estrogen and growth hormone in the experiment group 12 weeks later result compared with the control group 0 week that practiced Dance Sports programs increased significantly (p<.001). In conclusion, it may be said that the 12-week session of Dance sports program exercised a positive effect to training seems to suggest the possibility of the dance lesson to have effects on the increase of estrogen and growth hormone. The study indicates a number of further are as into understanding that is worked out in consideration of practice period and proper weight for more efficient results, instead of a program that is just composed of an aerobic exercise only.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.21-34
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• 2012

This study examined the effects of physical activities using Korean dance upon the motor abilities of young children. The subjects of this study were divided into 2 groups. The first group was an experimental group (boy=12, girl=13) who participated in the Korean dance class and the other group was a comparative group (boy=11, girl=14). Experiments were performed during 18 sessions for 9 weeks. The study findings are as follows. First, physical activities using Korean dance had positive effects upon the development of basic motor abilities in young children. In terms of these basic motor abilities, movement motor ability and whole muscle operation motor ability showed significant differences between the pre-test and post-test stage in the experiment group and between the experimental and comparative groups in the post-test stage. On the other hand, in terms of non-movement motor abilities, there was a significant difference between the pre- and post-test stages for the experimental group, but no significant difference in the post-test stage for the experimental or comparative groups. Second, physical activities using Korean dance had positive effects upon the development of perceptive motor abilities in young children. In other words, in the sub-variables of perceptive motor abilities, there were significant differences between the pre- and post-test stages of the experimental group which experienced physical activities using Korean dance. In conclusion, the study findings showed that physical activities using Korean dance had positive effects upon the increase of both basic motor abilities and perceptive motor abilities in young children. Additionally, the experimental group exhibited more positive effects in the various areas of motor abilities than the comparative group.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.73-80
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of motion-based dance game on static and dynamic balance in elderly women. The participants were randomly divided into 2 group, Motion Based dance game group(n=10), control group(n=10). After they were divided into an Motion Based dance game group and a control group the Motion Based dance game group participated in six-week period of time, three times a week, 60 minutes each, and the control group didn't exercise outside of their daily lives. To evaluated the balance ability of exercise, it was evaluated by using Berg Balance Scale(BBS), Functional Reach Test(FRT), Timed Up and Go test(TUG). The data was analysis using a paired t-test and independent t-test to determine the statistical significance. The results of this study between BBS, FRT, TUG and Motion Based dance game group had statistically significant difference rather than control group(p<.05). In conclusion, the Motion based Dance Game showed improvement on the balance ability in the elderly. Regular maintenance of the Dance Game "Dance Central" program for the elderly will assistance improve the balance. Consequently, studies on the development of dance games suitable for the elderly are believed to be necessary.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.624-639
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• 2015

This study was conducted as experimental research for testing the effects of a brain dance group program for cultivating human qualities on pre early childhood care teachers' self acceptance and self control. The subjects of this study were 20 students in the course for early childhood care teacher certificate at N University in G City who consented to participate in this study. and they were divided randomly into an experimental group n=10) and a control group n=10). Data were collected before and after the application of the brain dance group program for cultivating human qualities. and collected data were analyzed using SPSS 14.0 for Windows through paired sample t-test. According to the results. the brain dance group program was found to have a positive effect on self acceptance and self control. and this suggests that brain dance is a useful tool for enhancing pre early childhood care teachers' self-acceptance and self control. The findings of this study are expected to be used as basic information for tertiary education institutions' development of strategies to raise brain dance experts and educational experts who are to develop various education programs using brain dance.

• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.84-93
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• 2012

Purpose: This study was performed to identify the effects of dance sports programs on the parameters of health promotion (blood pressure, pulse, glucose, blood lipids, musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, self-efficacy, and depression) in rural women. Methods: A non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest experimental design was used. The study subjects were 38 women who were aged 45-78 and cultivating perilla leaves in a rural area. An experimental group (n=20) received the dance sports program from December 3rd, 2009 to June 3rd, 2010 and a control group (n=18) did not. Data was collected 3 times (before the program, 12 during and 24 weeks after the program) and were analyzed with $X^2$ test, t-test, and Repeated Measures ANOVA using SPSS/WIN 18.0. Results: For the experimental group, significant improvement was found in high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low density cholesterol (LDL-C), triglyceride (TG) musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, self-efficacy, and depression as compared to the control group. Conclusion: The findings of the study indicates that the dance sports program is effective on health promotion for rural women. Therefore, dance sports programs can be recommended for health promotion of rural residents.