Scrapings and Art Therapy: Preliminary Studies of Patients with Physical Illness Accompanied by Mental Disorders

Abstract

Comorbidity is a term that refers to the presence of disease symptoms that are accompanied by other cluster entities. Some people with chronic physical ailments such as migraine, cephalgia, bronchial asthma, angina pectoris, gastritis, exacerbation of chronic body pain may experience mental disorders. "Scraping" therapy combined with art therapy is expected to improve the health of patients with comorbid physical illnesses and anxiety disorders. This research has aimed to determine whether "scraping" and art therapy can reduce symptoms in patients with physical-mental comorbidities. The group used in this study was 30 people with physical-mental disorders, and "scraping" therapy and art therapy earned for three months. Any type of literature article (case report, case series, and observational or interventional study) reporting  to the commission of health research ethics faculty of medicine university brawijaya. The results obtained suggest the importance of a strong correlation between scrap therapy and art therapy in the pre-and post-treatment effects of physical illness and mental disorders. "Scraping" therapy and art therapy affect reducing the patient's physical-mental symptoms. The results show that acupressure and art therapy are effective and have the potential to reduce the symptoms of comorbid disorders that also apply to complement therapy and are safer because of their nature.