Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Depression among Elderly at Selected Old Age Home, Coimbatore
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Quasi experimental one group pre test and post test design was adopted for the present study conducted at St.Joseph old age home, Coimbatore. Using purposive sampling technique 28 subjects, who had mild and moderate depression were selected by using Geriatric depression scale. Therapeutic Touch procedure was administered for each elderly over a month period. After the intervention, the level of depression was reassessed using same scale. Pre and posttest on level of depression was assessed and Paired `t` test was used to find out the effect of Therapeutic Touch on depression among elderly.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016