TY - JOUR
T1 - Dance movement psychotherapy intervention protocol for the caregivers of children on the autism spectrum
T2 - Development and fidelity evaluation
AU - Aithal, Supritha
AU - Karkou, Vicky
AU - Parsons, Ailsa
AU - Moula, Zoe
AU - Powell, Joanne
N1 - Funding Information:
This was part of the doctoral thesis of SA and it was supported by Edge Hill University , Graduate Teaching Assistant/PhD Studentships (Performing Arts) GT122-0117 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023
PY - 2023/9/25
Y1 - 2023/9/25
N2 - Caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face significant challenges as the demands of their role often surpass the resources available to them. Aiming to support the emotional and social wellbeing of caregivers, such as parents and teachers of children with ASD, a dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) intervention protocol was developed and implemented in a feasibility and process evaluation project. This article describes the development, and discusses the fidelity assessment, of the DMP intervention protocol. The fidelity assessment was conducted by calculating inter-rater reliability between three raters (therapist, researcher and external expert) on a 5-point Likert questionnaire through retrospective video analysis of the sessions. The results showed good agreement among the raters with a maximum mean difference of 0.57. High (75 % and above) adherence to the protocol was noted for 11 out of 12 criteria. The article critically evaluates the strengths and challenges of conducting a fidelity assessment of an intervention protocol. The overall structure and components of all the sessions of the protocol are illustrated in line with the template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guidelines to offer growing opportunities for replicable DMP intervention-based studies.
AB - Caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face significant challenges as the demands of their role often surpass the resources available to them. Aiming to support the emotional and social wellbeing of caregivers, such as parents and teachers of children with ASD, a dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) intervention protocol was developed and implemented in a feasibility and process evaluation project. This article describes the development, and discusses the fidelity assessment, of the DMP intervention protocol. The fidelity assessment was conducted by calculating inter-rater reliability between three raters (therapist, researcher and external expert) on a 5-point Likert questionnaire through retrospective video analysis of the sessions. The results showed good agreement among the raters with a maximum mean difference of 0.57. High (75 % and above) adherence to the protocol was noted for 11 out of 12 criteria. The article critically evaluates the strengths and challenges of conducting a fidelity assessment of an intervention protocol. The overall structure and components of all the sessions of the protocol are illustrated in line with the template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guidelines to offer growing opportunities for replicable DMP intervention-based studies.
KW - Autism spectrum disorders
KW - Caregivers
KW - Dance movement psychotherapy
KW - Protocol development
KW - Wellbeing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85172397022&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.aip.2023.102082
DO - 10.1016/j.aip.2023.102082
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85172397022
SN - 0197-4556
VL - 86
JO - ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
JF - ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
M1 - 102082
ER -
