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Massage Reduces Anxiety in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Patients

Year: 1992

Type: article

Abstract: A 30-minute back massage was given daily for a 5-day period to 52 hospitalized depressed and adjustment disorder children and adolescents. Compared with a control group who viewed relaxing videotapes, the massaged subjects were less depressed and anxious and had lower saliva cortisol levels after the massage. In addition, nurses rated the subjects as being less anxious and more cooperative on the last day of the study, and nighttime sleep increased over this period. Finally, urinary cortisol and norepinephrine levels decreased, but only for the depressed subjects.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199201000-00019

Authors: TIFFANY FIELD, CONNIE MORROW, CHAD VALDEON, SANDRA LARSON, CYNTHIA KUHN, SAUL SCHANBERG

Institutions: University of Miami, Duke Medical Center

Language: English

Topic: Stress Responses and Cortisol

Subfield: Behavioral Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,710