Pilot Study Evaluating the Effect of Massage Therapy on Stress, Anxiety and Aggression in a Young Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Unit

Garner, Belinda; Phillips, Lisa; Schmidt, H.; Markulev, Connie; O'Connor, J.A.; Wood, Stephen J.; Berger, Gregor; Burnett, Peter; McGorry, Patrick D.

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“…This indicates that the STAI-Y instrument was sensitive enough to evaluate anxiety in small groups. Decrease in STAI-Y score after massage has been reported in other studies (Garner et al, 2008;Hatayama et al, 2008;Field et al, 2009).…”

Section: Stai-y: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 73%

Touch massage: a pilot study of a complex intervention

Lindgren

Lehtipalo

Winsö

et al. 2013

Nursing in Critical Care

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Section: Stai-y: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 73%

Touch massage: a pilot study of a complex intervention

Lindgren

Lehtipalo

Winsö

et al. 2013

Nursing in Critical Care

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“…28 A nonrandomized controlled study of a 20-minute seated massage in young adult psychiatric inpatients found significantly reduced self-reported anxiety and resting heart rate. 29 A larger literature reports benefits following full-body massage in a variety of patient populations and conditions: RCTs of full-body massage in patients report significantly decreased pain and improved function in patients with chronic low back pain; 30 significantly reduced pain, anxiety, and tension in postoperative cardiac patients; 31 significantly increased heart rate variability and improved mood in breast cancer survivors with cancer-related fatigue; 32 significantly reduced pain, increased muscle relaxation, and improved mood in hospice inpatients with metastatic bone pain; 33 significantly reduced depression in patients with breast cancer; 34 significantly decreased physical discomfort and fatigue 35 and perceived stress in breast cancer patients. 36 Significantly reduced pain and anxiety in patients with chronic nonmalignant pain following nurse-administered 15-minute back massage has been reported.…”

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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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“…From an autonomic perspective, touch determines the positive physiological effects toward vagal modulation, such as the decrement of heart rate (HR) and increment of heart rate variability (HRV) (Field et al, 1986; Tsao, 2007; Garnera et al, 2008; Russell et al, 2008). …”

Section: The Role Of Ct Fibers In Human Affective Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Human studies showed that the caress and moderate massages are utilized to enhance the wellbeing not only of people suffering from depression, chronic pain, stress, neurological or psychological disease, and for cancer patients receiving chemo- and radio-therapy, but also to reduce the stress experienced by healthy people (Belinda et al, 2008; Billhult et al, 2009; Diego and Field, 2009; Lindgren et al, 2010; Field, 2014; Schroeder et al, 2014). …”

Section: Non-human Primates Sweeping and Human Pleasant Touch: A Methmentioning

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From Sweeping to the Caress: Similarities and Discrepancies between Human and Non-Human Primates’ Pleasant Touch

Grandi

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Affective touch plays a key role in affiliative behavior, offering a mechanism for the formation and maintenance of social bonds among conspecifics, both in humans and non-human primates. Furthermore, it has been speculated that the CT fiber system is a specific coding channel for affiliative touch that occurs during skin-to-skin interactions with conspecifics. In humans, this touch is commonly referred to as the caress, and its correlation with the CT fiber system has been widely demonstrated. It has been hypothesized that the sweeping touch that occurs during grooming in non-human primates may modulate the CT fibers, with recent preliminary studies on rhesus monkeys supporting this hypothesis. The present mini-review proposes a comparison between the pleasant touch, caress and sweeping of humans and non-human primates, respectively. The currently available data was therefore reviewed regarding (i) the correlation between pleasant touch and CT fibers both in humans and non-human primates, (ii) the autonomic effects, (iii) the encoding at the central nervous system, (iv) the development from early life to adulthood, and (v) the potential applications of pleasant touch in the daily lives of both humans and non-human primates. Moreover, by considering both the similarities and discrepancies between the human caress and non-human primate sweeping, a possible evolutionary mechanism can be proposed that has developed from sweeping as a utilitarian action with affiliative meaning among monkeys, to the caress as a purely affective gesture associated with humans.

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Pilot Study Evaluating the Effect of Massage Therapy on Stress, Anxiety and Aggression in a Young Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Unit

Cited by 34 publications

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Touch massage: a pilot study of a complex intervention

Touch massage: a pilot study of a complex intervention

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

From Sweeping to the Caress: Similarities and Discrepancies between Human and Non-Human Primates’ Pleasant Touch

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