Research Article
Tai-Chi for Residential Patients with Schizophrenia on Movement Coordination, Negative Symptoms, and Functioning: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 4
Themes and selected quotes on the subjective advantages and disadvantages of Tai-chi.
| Advantages of Tai-chi | Disadvantages of Tai-chi |
| (1) Improving physical well-being, flexibility and movement regulation | (1) Tiredness | Tai-Chi was good for my bones and ligaments | Classes were long and felt out of energy | Tai-Chi made me more flexible | (2) Bodily discomfort | I was able to regulate the rhythm | My arms and legs hurt and I felt dizzy | It improved my physical ability | (3) Difficulty of the Tai-chi movements | It made me healthier | Movements were hard to remember and follow | (2) Improving cognitive and psychological health | (4) Difficulty in practicing independently | It made me happier | I did not know how to practice by myself | It helped me relax | (5) Tai-chi being slow and mundane | I could think more openly | It was boring | I felt more alert | | (3) Possibility of becoming a leisure activity | | Tai-Chi was attractive | | It gave me something to do | | (4) Others | | It was the correct thing to do | | Tai-Chi was a form of exercise | |
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