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  • Psychology
  • Healthcare

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  • Touch is a vital aspect of caregiving, recognized for its pain-reducing benefits.
  • However, nurses' perceptions and experiences regarding touch in their practice remain underexplored.
  • Understanding these perceptions is crucial for improving healthcare professional well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the connection between nurses' comfort levels with different types of touch and their overall well-being.
  • Specifically, to examine how task-oriented contact, physical comfort touch, and emotional containment touch relate to burnout and job satisfaction.

Main Methods:

  • A quantitative study involving 241 nurses participating in pain management training.
  • Utilized the Comfort with Touch (CT) scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and a Job Satisfaction measure.
  • Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the relationships between variables.

Main Results:

  • Touch providing emotional containment emerged as a significant predictor of emotional exhaustion.
  • Emotional exhaustion was positively associated with cynicism and negatively with job satisfaction.
  • A direct link was also found between emotional containment touch and cynicism.

Conclusions:

  • Nurses' ability to provide emotionally containing touch is a key factor influencing their emotional exhaustion and burnout.
  • Interventions aimed at enhancing nurses' comfort with emotionally supportive touch may improve their well-being and job satisfaction.
  • The findings underscore the psychological impact of touch in the nursing profession.