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Anxiety and therapeutic touch

M Olson, N Sneed

    Issues in Mental Health Nursing
    |March 1, 1995
    PubMed
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    Therapeutic touch may help reduce anxiety in caregivers and students. While not statistically significant due to sample size, high-anxiety participants showed greater anxiety reduction with therapeutic touch.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Complementary Medicine

    Background:

    • Anxiety is a common issue among professional caregivers and students.
    • Therapeutic touch is a complementary therapy with potential anxiolytic effects.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic touch in reducing anxiety.
    • To assess the validity and equivalence of anxiety measurement tools.

    Main Methods:

    • A four-group, repeated-measures experimental design with 40 participants.
    • Participants were divided into high- and low-anxiety groups, and "therapeutic touch" and comparison groups.
    • Three self-report anxiety measures were used: Profile of Mood States, Spielberger's State/Trait Anxiety Inventory, and visual analogue scales.

    Main Results:

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    • Correlations among anxiety instruments were highly significant.
    • The high-anxiety group receiving therapeutic touch showed a greater reduction in anxiety compared to the control group.
    • Statistical significance was not reached due to a small sample size.

    Conclusions:

    • Therapeutic touch shows promise in reducing anxiety, particularly in high-anxiety individuals.
    • Further research with larger sample sizes is warranted to confirm these findings.
    • The anxiety measurement tools demonstrated good concurrent validity and equivalence for future studies.