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Effects of Tactile Massage in Long-Term Care Facilities

NCT05052138 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 73

Last updated 2023-03-27

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Summary

The older residents in the long-term care facilities frequently experience loneliness, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Improving residents' psychological health problems is one of the important tasks for nursing staff. Individual experiences a sense of security and feels of being cared for after tactile massage (TM).The randomized controlled trial research design and convenience sampling will be employed. Through skin-to-skin contact, the oxytocin can be induced to make individual feel relaxed, reduce anxiety, and feel pleasure. The randomized controlled trial research design and convenience sampling will be employed. The eligible residents will be randomly assigned to intervention group and comparison group (usual care). The intervention group will receive two 15-min tactile massages per week for 4 weeks. The comparison group will receive regular care and activities.

Conditions

  • Loneliness

Interventions

OTHER

Tactile massage

Tactile massage will receive two 15-min tactile massages(hand massage) per week for 4weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Taipei Medical University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pi-Hua Huang · Taipei Medical University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-08-01
Primary Completion
2022-12-13
Completion
2022-12-25

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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