Therapeutic Touch efficacy: A Systematic Review

Mohammad Ali  Cheraghi; Akram Sadat  Sadat Hosseini; Roya  Gholami; Imane  Bagheri; Nilofar  Binaee; Pegah  Matourypour; Mehdi  Ranjbaran

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Therapeutic Touch efficacy: A Systematic Review

Author(s):

Mohammad Ali Cheraghi¹,

Akram Sadat Sadat Hosseini¹,

Roya Gholami¹,

Imane Bagheri¹,

Nilofar Binaee¹,

Pegah Matourypour^2,*,

Mehdi Ranjbaran¹

1Iran

Medical-Surgical Nursing Journal:Vol. 5, issue 4; e67946

Published online:Aug 05, 2017

Article type:Review Article

Received:Feb 25, 2018

Accepted:Jul 04, 2017

How to Cite:Mohammad Ali CheraghiAkram Sadat Sadat HosseiniRoya GholamiImane BagheriNilofar BinaeePegah MatourypourMehdi Ranjbaranet al.Therapeutic Touch efficacy: A Systematic Review.Med Surg Nurs J.5(4):e67946.

Abstract

Background: Recently, the "Disruptions in the Energy Field" have been omitted from the list of nursing diagnoses published by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA). Therapeutic touch is a scientific nursing intervention. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the efficacy of therapeutic touch (TT) and investigate the tenability of omitting this diagnosis from the NANDA nursing diagnosis list.

Methods: For the purpose of the study, we employed the English and Persian articles in complementary therapy (Therapeutic Touch) area published within January, 2006-December, 2016. The articles were obtained by searching such databases as the Proquest, PubMed, Science Direct, SID, Magiran, and Iran Medex. The searches were performed using the following keywords and their MeSH equivalents: “Therapeutic Touch", "Aura Therapy", and "Energy Healing". Finally, 13 articles were selected based on the inclusion criteria. The articles were evaluated based on a standard checklist presented by the Cochrane database. The articles were presented based on PRISMA format.

Results: Out of the 3 review articles and 736 research articles, which were retrieved, 13 studies were examined in full-text with especial focus on the quality of methodology sections.

Conclusion: Based on the reviewed articles, that observing no significant impact following TT interventions does not mean that this approach is actually ineffective. It may just be due to inappropriate methodology and research design employed for investigation. Therefore, we need to focus on the methodologies of these randomized control trials rather than their final results.

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Systematic review

Therapeutic touch

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