A History of Massage in Nurse Training School Curricula (1860-1945)

Ruffin, Paula Thomas

doi:10.1177/0898010110377355

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“…54 Subsequently, because nursing has become more complex, technically challenging, and time consuming, what were once considered ''basics'' in nursing bedside care, such as the backrub and the bed bath are also being left behind. 55 Nursing leaders, recognizing the power of interpersonal touch 56 as important to patients' and their families' expectations of nursing and as an embodiment of compassionate and caring nursing, have sought to reintegrate the administration of caring touch back into bedside nursing by incorporating the ''basics'' into a nursingderived consensus-based ''Patient Care Essentials'' for nursing staff.…”

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Effect of a Brief Seated Massage on Nursing Student Attitudes Toward Touch for Comfort Care

Turkeltaub

Yearwood²,

Friedmann³

2014

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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Background: While massage has been removed from nursing curricula, studies have reported massage as safe and effective for stress reduction, relaxation, pain relief, fatigue, and quality of life. Objective: To compare the efficacy of two intensities of touch administered during two seated massages on the attitudes of nursing students toward touch for their self-care and patient care. Participants: Nursing students who volunteered gave institutional review board-approved written informed consent to undergo massage by a licensed massage therapist. Settings/location: A private room adjacent to the nursing lab in a school of nursing. Intervention: Brief seated massages of differing intensities. Each participant received low-intensity and highintensity touch in a two-block, randomized order, within-subjects design. Linear mixed models nested within subject and random intercept analyses were used to test hypotheses in this two-treatment, two-sequence, twoperiod crossover design. Outcome measures: Health questionnaires/visual analogue scales pertaining to physical/affective/and attitudinal status were completed before and after each massage. Results: Twenty-nine participants (93% female, 83% single) completed the study. Before massage, the optimal intensity of touch anticipated for self-comfort was 6.6 (0 = no pressure;10 = most intense pressure imaginable). The mean touch intensities were 6.7 for high-intensity massage and 0.5 for low-intensity ( p < 0.001). The overall percentage differences (feeling better or worse) following massage were as follows: low intensity, 37.5% better; high intensity, 62.7% better ( p < 0.001). Significantly more improvement was reported for energy, pain, stress, and feeling physically uptight after high-intensity compared with low-intensity ( p < 0.03). Participants were more likely to both receive touch for self-care and provide touch for patient care after experiencing high-versus low-intensity massage ( p < 0.01). Conclusions: High-intensity seated massage was more efficacious than low-intensity massage and positively influenced nursing student attitudes toward the inclusion of massage in self-care/patient care. The role of touch for self-care/patient care in the nursing curricula merits reconsideration.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of a Brief Seated Massage on Nursing Student Attitudes Toward Touch for Comfort Care

Turkeltaub

Yearwood²,

Friedmann³

2014

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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“…The British Medical Journal reported the benefits of massage in treating dyspepsia and insomnia in 1887 [29] and also the benefits of "scientific massage" to "arouse the slumbering activities of vital organs by energising the natural motive powers of the individual" in 1895 [30]. In the 19th century, massage was also included in nursing practice, and Florence Nightingale implemented massage as one of the basic indispensable 10 skills for nurse training, aiming particularly for bedside support and comfort [31]. Thus, before World War II, massage was commonly used in healthcare.…”

Section: Massage Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, before World War II, massage was commonly used in healthcare. However, the popularity of the scientific pharmacological solution, in tandem with the shift of massage from a basic nursing comfort measure to a specialised physiotherapy, led to the use of massage to become very limited and increasingly specified in healthcare [26] [31].…”

Section: Massage Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Positive Massage for Couples’ Wellbeing and Relationships: The Bridge between Positive Psychology and Massage

Naruse¹,

Moss²

2019

Health

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Although positive psychology interventions are generally aimed at individuals, when considering couples, a dyadic approach may be more effective. In terms of a couples' wellbeing, their relationship is one of the most important factors. As such, interventions targeted for both members' wellbeing via their relationship are likely to be of value. Currently, there exist limited dyadic positive activity interventions available in positive psychology, and notably, tactile intervention is lacking. Massage is the evidence based tactile health modality that has long history as a therapeutic intervention, as well as being one of the most natural human health-oriented behaviours. The current commentary argues for the link between positive psychology and massage, and that "Positive Massage" can be a bridge between the hitherto distinct entities of positive psychology and massage. Furthermore, based on the conceptual theoretical model of the link between Positive Massage and wellbeing, we propose that Positive Massage can be an effective positive intervention impacting on couples' wellbeing and enhancing their relationships.

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“…Rubbing the physical body was the primary form of medical treatment given until the pharmaceutical revolution in the 1940s (Field, 1998). By the 1930s, however, the use of massage began to decline, due to the new discipline of physical medicine (Ruffin, 2010). Historically, massage was used as a basic form of providing comfort in nursing care.…”

Section: Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Historically, massage was used as a basic form of providing comfort in nursing care. Maybe massage could be incorporated into nursing encounters, given that the application of so much medical technology may in part as a by-product have created a distance to the patient (Ruffin, 2010). In the literature, there are descriptions of a multitude of techniques for touching in nursing, such as healing touch (Hover-Kramer, 2002), TM (Ardeby, 2003), tactile stimulation (Birkestad, 2001), Therapeutic Touch (Krieger, 1993), and Reiki (Sword, 1999).…”

Section: Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%