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The project implies that teenage girls with recurrent psychosomatic disorders can improve their health by participating in unpretentious dancing twice a week, without focusing on performance. The Stockholm Region offers support for succeeding in starting collaborations in the dance method as an initiative for young people's mental health. To date, the Stockholm Region has subsidized 40 training places in the initiative Dance without Requirements through the Competence Center for Culture and Health. They produced a handbook for municipalities that want to start up Dance without requirements programme and help to match dance instructors and municipalities when needed.
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The free dance gives the young people the opportunity to experience the body in a positive way. Focus on one's own problems decreases, instead self-confidence and belonging in the group grows. The results point to increased self-rated health, reduced pain, fatigue and stress but also reduced use of painkillers. A long term implementation would provide greater benefits, as the effort provides clear health-economic benefits on a lower cost. It can also provide savings in student health due to fewer visits to the school nurse.