Assessing individual differences in attitudes towards touch in treatment settings: Introducing the touch & health scale.

IF 1.9 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Health Psychology Open Pub Date : 2022-11-14 eCollection Date: 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1177/20551029221137008

Aikaterini Vafeiadou, Natalie C Bowling, Claudia Hammond, Michael J Banissy

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Individuals commonly receive touch in treatment settings, but there is limited research on how they perceive it. The current project sought to address this gap by: 1) developing the Touch & Health Scale (THS) - a novel instrument to measure attitudes to touch in treatment settings 2) assessing inter-individual differences in THS scores, and 3) examining the association between individuals' THS scores and wellbeing. Data of a large U.K. adults sample (N > 12,000) were used. THS showed Cronbach's α between 0.636 and 0.816 and significant correlations (p < 0.001) with day-to-day attitudes to touch. THS scores differed as a function of extraversion and avoidant attachment style. Participants with more positive attitudes to touch in treatment settings showed greater wellbeing. Overall, the study highlights the importance of a personalised approach to touch in treatment settings and provides a new scale that may act as a screening tool for this purpose.

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评估治疗环境中对触摸态度的个体差异：引入触摸与健康量表。

个人通常在治疗环境中接受触摸，但关于他们如何感知触摸的研究有限。目前的项目试图通过以下方法来解决这一差距：1)开发触摸与健康量表（THS）——一种测量治疗环境中触摸态度的新工具；2)评估触摸与健康评分的个体间差异；3)检查个体的触摸与健康评分之间的关系。使用了大量英国成年人样本（约1.2万名）的数据。THS显示Cronbach's α在0.636 ~ 0.816之间，与日常触摸态度显著相关（p < 0.001）。外倾型和回避型依恋类型对THS得分的影响不同。在治疗环境中，对触摸持更积极态度的参与者表现出更大的幸福感。总的来说，这项研究强调了在治疗环境中个性化触摸方法的重要性，并提供了一种新的量表，可以作为筛查工具。

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Health Psychology Open Psychology-Clinical Psychology

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期刊介绍： Health Psychology Open (HPO) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, online-only journal providing rapid publication. HPO is dedicated to publishing cutting-edge research in health psychology from around the world. HPO seeks to provide a platform for both traditional empirical analyses and more qualitative and/or critically oriented approaches to health psychology. All areas of health psychology are covered, but these topics are of particular interest: Clinical health psychology Critical health psychology Community health psychology Health psychology practice Health psychology through a social, cultural or regional lens The journal particularly favours papers that focus on health psychology in practice, including submissions concerning community and/or clinical applications and interventions. Review articles are also welcomed. There is no fixed limit to the length of manuscripts, which is normally strictly limited in other journals, for example HPO’s sister journal, Journal of Health Psychology (JHP). Studies published in this journal are required to obtain ethical approval from an Institutional Review Board. Such approval must include informed, signed consent by all research participants. Any manuscript not containing an explicit statement concerning ethical approval and informed consent will not be considered.