Comparison of a Healing Touch, coaching, and a combined intervention on comfort and stress in younger college students

Holistic Nursing Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 194-202

  Dowd, Therese ^a   Kolcaba, Katharine ^a   Steiner, Richard ^a   Fashinpaur, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coaching; College health centers; College students; Comfort theory; Healing Touch; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STUDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COUNSELING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; OHIO; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; THERAPEUTIC TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 34447621971     PISSN: 08879311     EISSN: 15505138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HNP.0000280931.75883.ae     Document Type: Article

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