Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies

Abstract

In a stabilized phase of schizophrenia, negative symptoms are evident, on which 7 body-oriented therapies can act. This systematic review examines the scientific evidence 8 of the effects of all body-oriented therapies on the negative symptoms in people with 9 schizophrenia and the effects of each type of body-oriented therapies on the negative 10 symptoms in people with schizophrenia. To carry out this systematic review, the PRISMA 11 guidelines were followed. The research was carried out through Pubmed, Cochrane, Web 12 of Science, APAPsycNet, Science Direct, Scopus and the VHL Regional Portal. The 13 methodological quality of the studies was assessed using the PEDro scale and data 14 synthesis was performed. There were included 18 studies with the following interventions: 15 creative arts, mind-body interventions, and body psychotherapy. Negative symptoms 16 (total value), affective blunting, anhedonia, avolition, alogia, asociality, and psychomotor 17 slowing were studied. In conclusion, there is strong scientific evidence that: body- 18 oriented therapies do not promote positive effects on avolition, when it is assessed using 19 the SANS scale; and creative arts reduce the total value of negative symptoms, when 20 assessed by PANSS.