Self-Soothing Touch Reduces Momentary Stress, Fatigue, and Loneliness Comparable to Brief Meditation: A Randomised Controlled Trial.

Stress Health · 2026 · PMC12865878 · PMID 41631519

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just failed to reach significancep = 0.052so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Looking at estimated trends over time, there was a significant decrease in pre‐session, but not post‐session stress levels over the course of 2 weeks in both control and intervention groups; however, after correcting for multiple comparisons, the pre‐session effect of the intervention group just failed to reach significance ( p = 0.052).

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highly significantno p-value reported

SST participants also showed a highly significant cumulative reduction in pre‐session momentary fatigue over the intervention period.

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