2014 Volume 34 Issue 1 Pages 255-262
Purpose: Verify the effectiveness if Healing Touch works for fatigued nurses after work.
Methods: The study was executed based on RCT (Randomized Controlled Trial). Targeted people were consisted of 76 full-time nurses who were working at a hospital in Tokyo, after day-time work. Nurses were randomly grouped into Healing Touch group or Placebo Healing Touch group, and intervened 20 minutes. Estimation was done on subjective and objective perspectives. As subjective estimation, tiredness (based on VAS: Visual Analogue Scale) and fatigue feeling (based on POMS: Profile of Mood States) were observed before and after the intervention. As for objective evaluation, plethysmogram of fingers was applied to measure Autonomic Nervous Activity such as Heart Rate, HF, LF/HF before, during and after the intervention.
Results: 1. Variance of VAS showed Healing Touch effected significantly against relaxing the fatigue (p<0.01). 2. Variance of POMS showed Healing Touch significantly improved TMD Score, which represented overall feeling status (p<0.05). 3. Healing Touch also worked for Autonomic Nervous Activity, showing significant increase in HF, resulting in improving Parasympathetic Nerve Activity (p<0.05). There was no significant move on Heart Rate and LF/HF.
Conclusion: Healing Touch was proved to be effective on relaxing fatigues of nurses who were after work.
