Objective: Assessing the impact of art therapy on treatment outcomes and quality of life in Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Background: In addition to medical treatment, art therapy plays an extremely important role in Parkinson’s disease. Various procedures and methods are used to stimulate compensatory and redundancy mechanisms and neuroplasticity. Based on the results of numerous scientific researches, as well as empirically, the extremely positive effect of various forms of art on the treatment of PD has been confirmed, either by accepting (observing, listening to…) art, or through personal artistic-creative expression.

Method: The study was conducted on two groups of 30 patients with Parkinson’s disease. One group, in addition to drug therapy, goes through cycles of art therapy (art and graphic expression and music therapy) for three years, while the control group remains exclusively on drug therapy. The uric acid level was determined for all patients at the beginning of the study, which will be monitored during and after the study. All participants will be continuously evaluated by completing validated questionnaires and scales.

Results: Data collection is still in progress. At the time of the conference, we expect the results of the evaluation of the respondents after completing two cycles of art therapy.

Conclusion: The first results show a positive effect of art therapy on the subjects, but it is necessary to conduct more cycles of workshops in order to confirm their effectiveness.

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