The impact of healing touch on pediatric oncology patients

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-30

  Wong, Joyce ^a   Ghiasuddin, Asad ^b   Kimata, Chieko ^c   Patelesio, Bonnie ^c   Siu, Andrea ^c  

^a Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Hawai'i Pacific University   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety stress; biofield therapy; fatigue; Healing Touch; pain; pediatric cancer

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALING TOUCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PARENT; PLAY THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATIGUE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THERAPEUTIC TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871656423     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735412446864     Document Type: Article

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