A survey of therapeutic touch practitioners.
Therapeutic touch is the name of a specific nursing technique that was devised by Dr Dolores Krieger, an American nurse, in the early 1970s. This article provides a brief overview of therapeutic touch, and describes the responses received to a survey exploring the views and experiences of its practitioners in Britain.
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School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea.
D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D018579:Patient Selection; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D019124:Therapeutic Touch / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D006113:United Kingdom