"What happens when Healing Touch and coaching skill sets are combined? Dowd, Kolcaba, Steiner, and Fashinpaur (2007) compared the effect of Healing Touch, coaching, and a combined intervention of both Healing Touch and coaching on comfort and stress in younger college students. The combined group showed an 85% improvement, followed by the Healing Touch group with a 67% improvement
and the coaching group with 58% improvement. (p. 199) The researchers found that “Healing Touch has better immediate results on stress and comfort, and that coaching had better carryover results on both outcomes.” (p. 201) However, the Healing Touch treatments did not include education on self-care Healing Touch techniques, which might have changed the level of improvement between the groups. One thing was clear, the combination of Healing Touch and coaching produced the largest improvement in physical and/or mental signs and symptoms including positive changes in appetite, sleep, anxiety, depres- sion, and academic performance. (p. 194) " Energy Magazine Sept/Oct 2015