{"id":187223,"date":"2024-04-11T22:26:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/a-systematic-review-and-multivariate-meta-analysis-of-the-physical-and-mental-health-benefits-of-touch-interventions"},"modified":"2024-04-11T22:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:26:24","slug":"a-systematic-review-and-multivariate-meta-analysis-of-the-physical-and-mental-health-benefits-of-touch-interventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/a-systematic-review-and-multivariate-meta-analysis-of-the-physical-and-mental-health-benefits-of-touch-interventions","title":{"rendered":"A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis of the physical and mental health benefits of touch interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-systematic-review-and-multivariate-meta-analysis-of-the-physical-and-mental-health-benefits-of-touch-interventions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physical touch from both humans and animals can reduce pain, feelings of depression, and anxiety in adults and children, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in <i>Nature Human Behaviour<\/i>. Read the paper:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This pre-registered systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis examined the effects of receiving touch for promoting mental and physical well-being, quantifying the efficacy of touch interventions for different ways of administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical touch from both humans and animals can reduce pain, feelings of depression, and anxiety in adults and children, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Nature Human Behaviour. Read the paper: This pre-registered systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis examined the effects of receiving touch for promoting mental and physical well-being, quantifying the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}