2024 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 76-86
The purpose of this study was to clarify the use of therapeutic touch massage for chronic schizophrenic patients in clinical settings as well as aspects of interactions between patients and nurses through nursing practices. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the research participants, three nurses of psychiatric wards, and data were examined by qualitative and descriptive analysis. Consequently, 93 codes were categorized into “hesitation due to uncertainty about implementing massage care,” “decrease in sense of uncertainty and increase in sense of security,” “increase of mutual interaction,” “establishment of relationship between patients and nurses based on touch care,” “recovery of patients’independence,” “sense of fulfillment due to massage practice,” and “difficulties in providing care in psychiatric clinical practice.” This study suggested that continuous massage therapy enhanced mutual interactions as a supportive method to establish relationships between patients and nurses. However, it was suggested that the nursing practice of massage was perceived as a difficult care to provide in clinical practice.
