Healing Touch: A Strategy for Acute Care Nurses’ Stress Reduction
| Autor: | Randy L. Rosamond, Gloria Giarratano, Susan Orlando, Jane Sumner, Diedre Devier, Lee S. McDaniel, Diane Wind Wardell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Holistic Nursing. :089801012211421 |
| ISSN: | 1552-5724 0898-0101 |
| Popis: | The purpose of the study is to determine whether administering healing touch (HT) is more effective than deep breathing (DB) for reducing acute care nurses’ stress during a shift. A randomized cluster trial assessed 150 nurses’ vital signs and Visual Analog Scale for Stress (VASS) levels pre, post, and at follow-up to achieve a power of .7 and medium affect size. Open-ended questions following the intervention enriched quantitative findings describing the experience, facilitators, and barriers to potential use in nursing. The generalized estimating equation 1 (GEE1) comparisons of mean change over time, found that nurses in the HT intervention, had significantly lower VASS stress scores at posttreatment (−0.95, p = .0002) and at follow-up (−0.73, p = .0144) than the DB group, and the respiratory rate (RR) rate differences were nearly significant at post-intervention and significant at follow-up, respectively (1.36, p = .0568 and −2.28, p = .0011), indicating lower RR after HT. These findings support the use of HT as an effective stress reduction strategy as a relevant strategy to sustain a viable nurse work force post-COVID-19. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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