The effect of therapeutic touch on pain and fatigue of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-381

  Aghabati, Nahid ^a   Mohammadi, Eesa ^a   Pour Esmaiel, Zahra ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

cancer patients; chemotherapy; pain and fatigue; therapeutic touch

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 77953845681     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nen006     Document Type: Article

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