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Meehan, Therese Connell. (1993) Therapeutic touch and postoperative pain: A Rogerian research study. Nursing Science Quarterly, 6(2), 69-78

This study utilized a conceptualization of therapeutic touch within Martha Roger’s science of unitary human beings and investigated the effects of therapeutic touch on pain in postoperative patients. A single trial, single-blind, three-group design was utilized. One hundred and ninety-three people consented to participate in the study and 108 qualified by requesting pain medication during the evening hours of data collection. Subjects were primarily Caucasian and ranged in age from 23 to 79. Subjects were randomly assigned to one three groups of equal size including therapeutic touch, a mimic therapeutic touch placebo group or standard intervention (according to circumstance) analgesic medication. There were no significant differences between the groups according to age, sex, ethnocultural identification, previous pain experience, length and type of surgery, or other selected variables. Acute pain was measured before and one hour after interven-