The effectiveness of Folk dance Expression program on some physiological variables and cortisol hormone to relieve psychological stress in refugee women

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1 Curriculum and Teaching Methods of Physical Education - Faculty of Physical Education for Girls -Alexandria University

2 Health Sciences Department - Faculty of Physical Education for Girls - Alexandria University

Abstract

This research aims to design a folk dance Expression program for refugee women in Canada and to find its impact on some morphological and physiological variables (cortisol level) for refugee and the psychological stress . The research also aims to study the effectiveness of the applied folk dance Expression program on these variables and Obtain self-Assessment on the folk dance program from the research sample of refugee .
The results are
1- The folk dance Expression program improved morphological and physiological variables in the range between (10.46%: 67.47%) in favor of post measurement.
2- The folk dance Expression program relieved some psychological stresses as economic stress improved by 47.26%, work stress improved by 19.35%, health stress improved by 18.06%. The overall score of the scale improved by 14.10% in favor of post measurements.
3- The self-Assessment of the program was positive, as the research sample of refugee agreed on the program at a rate ranging from (81.6% to 100%).
4- Defining a day each year dedicated to disseminating different Arab cultures (the second week of December every year) which contain a set of activities that help to stand by the Arab refugees "International Exhibition of Multiple Cultures".
Recommendations:
1- The necessity of paying attention to measuring psychological stress for different groups of society and the good planning to overcome it.
2- Caring for refugees, providing health care and psychological support to solve their problems .
3- Preparing more studies on refugees and providing more rehabilitation programs to help them .

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