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Commencement Program 1983 (School Of Allied Health Professions), Loma Linda University
Commencement Program 1983 (School Of Allied Health Professions), Loma Linda University
Commencement Programs
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The Effect Of Therapeutic Touch On Anxiety And Physiological Measures, Marie Nicholas Bremner
The Effect Of Therapeutic Touch On Anxiety And Physiological Measures, Marie Nicholas Bremner
Ellmer School of Nursing Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of therapeutic touch to anxiety, blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate of 30 hospitalized women between the ages of 30 and 65 with the medical diagnosis of cancer. Subjects were matched into three intervention groups; three consecutive days subjects received a five minute intervention by therapeutic touch, casual touch, or no touch. A-trait and A-state anxiety were measured by the Self-Evaluation Questionnaires developed by Spielberger, Gorsuch, and Lushene. A factorial two-way analysis of variance revealed that subjects who received intervention by therapeutio touch experienced a significant reduction in A-state …