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A Qualitative Study of the Views of Patients With Medically Unexplained Symptoms on The BodyMind Approach®: Employing Embodied Methods and Arts Practices for Self-Management

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Payne, Helen, Brooks, Susan Deanie Margaret·2020·Frontiers in Psychology
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.554566PMC PMC7750328
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The arts provide openings for symbolic expression by engaging the sensory experience in the body they become a source of insight through embodied cognition and emotion, enabling meaning-making, and acting as a catalyst for change. This synthesis of sensation and enactive, embodied expression through movement and the arts is capitalized on in The BodyMind Approach® (TBMA). It is integral to this biopsychosocial, innovative, unique intervention for people suffering medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) applied in primary healthcare. The relevance of embodiment and arts practices in TBMA are discussed in relation to the views of participants in the pursuit of self-management. If widely employed TBMA could have an enormous impact, reach, and significance for patients and global health services. This original pre-clinical trial of qualitative research reports on the perceptions of participant patients with generic MUS, a world-wide issue usually treated by either psychological therapy or physiotherapy. TBMA is not a therapy but a health education program founded upon the concept of an integration of psychological elements with physiological, bodily, and sensory experiences. Thematic analysis of qualitative data sets from open-ended questions in semi-structured interviews and a written questionnaire post intervention is presented. Five aspects which appear to be key to learning self-management were derived from analyzing the data: (1) body with mind connections; (2) importance of facilitation; (3) potential benefits; (4) preparedness for change; (5) self-acceptance/compassion. This article advances the discourse on the nature of self-management for MUS through changing the mind-set and the relationship participants have with their bodily symptom/s through employing embodied methods and arts practices, challenging current, and solely verbal, psychological conceptual frameworks. Rigor lies in the method of data analysis using cross verification of credibility between reported findings and scrutiny by stakeholders. We conclude that facilitated TBMA groups employing embodied methods and arts practices can act as a method for developing the self-management of MUS and improving wellbeing.

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  • TBMA identified five key factors responsible for successful self-management of patients with medically unexplained symptoms: body with mind connections, importance of the facilitator, positive benefits, preparedness for change, self-acceptance, and compassion.

    “The BodyMind Approach® (TBMA) (an approach that has been derived from DMT) has identified five key factors as responsible for successful self-management of patients with medically unexplained symptoms. These are: body with mind connections, importance of the facilitator, positive benefits, preparedness for change, self-acceptance, and compassion (Payne and Brooks, 2020).”

    From The Development of Mindful-Based Dance Movement Therapy Intervention for Chronic Pain: A Pilot Study With Chronic Headache Patients (2021) · cites this paper as Payne and Brooks, 2020

    The Findings (‘Key for Quotations’; page unavailable) identify exactly these five principles, treating self-acceptance and compassion as one principle. But the paper only proposes that their interaction leads toward self-management; it does not establish that they are responsible for successful self-management. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Payne, H., & Brooks, S. D. M.
Affiliations
University of Hertfordshire (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Payne, Helen
  • Brooks, Susan Deanie Margaret
ORCID
Payne, Helen
Venue
Frontiers in Psychology
Publisher
Frontiers Media SA
Published
2020-12-07
Volume
11
Pages
554566-554566
ISSN
1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.554566
PMC
PMC7750328
OpenAlex
W3112583091
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12
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76
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Language
en
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Funders
University of Hertfordshire
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Conservation › Art Therapy and Mental Health
Keywords
medically unexplained symptoms, self-management, embodiment, artistic practice, health education, patient perspectives, biopsychosocial intervention, primary care, facilitation, self-acceptance, well-being, mind-body problem

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