Therapeutic touch for anxiety disorders

Therapeutic touch for anxiety disorders.

BACKGROUND Anxiety disorders are a common occurrence in today's society. There is interest from the community in the use of complementary therapies for anxiety disorders. This review examined the currently available evidence supporting the use of therapeutic touch in treating anxiety disorders. OBJECTIVES To examine the efficacy and adverse effects of therapeutic touch for anxiety disorders. ...

Therapeutic Touch efficacy: A Systematic Review

Background: Recently, the "Disruptions in the Energy Field" have been omitted from the list of nursing diagnoses published by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA). Therapeutic touch is a scientific nursing intervention. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the efficacy of therapeutic touch (TT) and investigate the tenability of omitting this diagnosis from the N...

New therapeutic options for anxiety and mood disorders.

Therapeutic Advantages of Escitalopram in Depression and Anxiety Disorders

What are the therapeutic advantages of escitalopram, the purified S-enantiomer of the racemate citalopram? The biological activity and therapeutic effects of citalopram, which has been used for over a decade to effectively treat depression and other psychiatric disorders, have been shown to reside exclusively in escitalopram. Escitalopram has been shown in vitro to be more than twice as potent ...

[Anxiety disorders in the elderly: Clinical and therapeutic aspects].

Few studies have been specifically devoted to anxiety disorders in the elderly. Nevertheless, various factors can expose this population to relevant levels of anxiety: development of somatic disorders, bereavements, isolation, changes of life, use of anxiogenic drugs, etc. Prevalence rates weaker than in the general population are usually found, but with high rates, however, for generalized anx...