Nursing Interventions for Breast Cancer Patients with Postoperative Anxiety
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Therapeutic touch, quiet time, and dialogue: perceptions of women with breast cancer.
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To compare the perceptions of women with breast cancer to an experimental therapeutic touch (TT) plus dialogue nursing intervention with perceptions of a control quiet time plus dialogue nursing intervention. DESIGN Qualitative study based on the Science of Unitary Human Beings. SETTING Data collected as part of a larger experimental study of the effects of TT on pre- and...
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