Meta-Analysis: Touch Tied to Improved Mental, Physical Health

People who received touch interventions, such as massage or gentle stroking for adults and skin-to-skin contact for infants, experienced moderate reductions in pain, depression, and anxiety, according to a meta-analysis of more than 130 studies that involved about 13  000 participants. The results suggest that “touch interventions can be systematically employed across the population to preserve and improve our health,” the researchers wrote in Nature Human Behavior.
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research