Astin, John A/ Harkness, Elaine/ Ernst, Edzard, The efficacy of distant healing: a systematic review of randomized trials, Annals of Internal Medicine 2000, 132, 903-910.
  http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/06jun00/astin.htm
   Includes TT in meta-analysis of distant healing.

Bowers, Diane Patricia, The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on State Anxiety and Physiological Measurements in Preoperative Clients (Master’s thesis), San Jose, CA: San Jose State University 1992.

* Bowers, Diane Patricia M.S., The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on State Anxiety and Physiological Measurements in Preoperative Clients, San Jose State University 1992.

Brown, Patricia Ricciuti, The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on Chemotherapy-induced Nausea and Vomiting: A Pilot Study (Master’s thesis), Reno: University of Nevada 1981.

Bush, Anita M./ Geist, Charles R. Geophysical variables and behavior: LXX. Testing electromagnetic explanations for a possible psychokinetic effect of therapeutic touch on germinating corn seed, Psychological Reports 1992, 70, 891-896

* Christian, Lois Marlene M.S.N., Therapeutic Touch for Treatment of Chronic Pain Related to Fibromyalgia, Grand Valley State University 1999.

Collins, J. W. The Effect of Non-contact Therapeutic Touch on the Relaxation Response, (Master’s thesis) Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University 1983.

* Cooper, Ronda Evelyn, The Effect of Theapeutic Touch on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Master’s thesis) Clarkson College 1997.

* Cooper, Wendy Ellen Copeland M.A., Meanings of Intuition in Nurses' Work, University of Victoria (Canada) 1994.

Dollar, Carolyn Estelle Effects of Therapeutic Touch on Perception of Pain and Physiological Measurements from Tension Headache in Adults: A Pilot Study (Master’s thesis), Jackson: University of Mississippi Medical Center 1993.

* Doucette, Maureen Louise M.N., Discovering the Individual's View of Receiving Therapeutic Touch: An Exploratory Descriptive Study, University of Alberta (Canada) 1997.

Fedoruk, Rosalie Berner, Transfer of the Relaxation Response: Therapeutic Touch as a Method for the Reduction of Stress in Premature Neonates (Doctoral dissertation) University of Maryland 1984.

Ferguson, Cecilia Kinsel, Subjective Experience of Therapeutic Touch (SETTS): Psychometric Examination of an Instrument, (Doctoral dissertation) Austin: University of Texas 1986.

Gagne, Deborah/ Toye Richard C. The effects of Therapeutic Touch and relaxation therapy in reducing anxiety, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing 1994, 8(3), 184-189.

Garrard, Clare Thomasson, The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Stress Reduction and Immune Function in Persons with AIDS (Immune Deficiency), (Doctoral dissertation) Birmingham: University of Alabama 1996.

Giasson, Marie/ Bouchard, Louise, Effect of Therapeutic Touch on the well-being of persons with terminal cancer, Journal of Holistic Nursing 1998, 16(3), 383-398.

Gordon, Andrea/ Merenstein, Joel H./ D’Amico, Frank/ Hudgens, David, The effects of Therapeutic Touch on patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, Journal of Family Practice 1998, 47(4), 271-277.

Green, M. Joanne, Registered Nurses’ knowledge and practice of Therapeutic Touch (Master’s thesis) Gonzaga University 1997.

* Green, M. Joanne M.S., Registered Nurses' Knowledge and Practice of Therapeutic Touch, Gonzaga University 1997.

Guerrero, M.S. The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on State-Trait Anxiety Level of Oncology Patients (Master’s thesis) Galveston: University of Texas 1985.

* Haigler, Susan Lynne Ph.D., The Persuasive Implications of Therapeutic Touch in Doctor-Patient Relationships (Gender), University of Washington, 1996.

Hale, Elizabeth Habig, A study of the relationship between therapeutic touch and the anxiety levels of hospitalized adults (Doctoral dissertation), College of Nursing, Texas Woman’s University 1986.

Heidt, Patricia, Effect of Therapeutic Touch on anxiety level of hospitalized patients, Nursing Research 1981, 30(1), 32-37; An Investigation of the Effect of Therapeutic Touch on the Anxiety of Hospitalized Patients (Doctoral dissertation) New York University 1979.

* Herdtner, Sherron L. Ph.D., The Experience of Knowing Self and Others in Therapeutic Touch (Holistic Health, Unitary Knowing), New York University 1999.

* Horton, Judith Anne Ph.D., Touch in Psychotherapy: A Survey of Patients' Experiences (Therapy), Georgia State University 1994.

Keller, Elizabeth, Effects of Therapeutic Touch on tension headache pain, Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Missouri 1983; also in: Keller, Elizabeth/ Bzdek, Virginia M. Effects of Therapeutic Touch on tension headache pain, Nursing Research 1986, 35, 101-104; Keller (Master’s thesis) University of Missouri 1983.

Kemp, Louise Marie, The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on the Anxiety Level of Patients with Cancer Receiving Palliative Care (Master’s thesis), Canada: Dalhousie University 1994.

* Kiernan, Jane S. Ph.D., The Experience of Therapeutic Touch in the Lives of Five Postpartal Women (Birth), New York University 1997.

Kramer, Nancy Ann, Comparison of Therapeutic Touch and casual touch in stress reduction of hospitalized children, Pediatric Nursing 1990, 16(5), 483-485.

Krieger, Dolores, Therapeutic Touch: the imprimatur of nursing, American Journal of Nursing 1975, 7, 784-787; and in The relationship of touch, with intent to help or to heal, to subjects’ in-vivo hemoglobin values, In: American Nurses’ Association 9th Nursing Research Conference, San Antonio, TX 1973 Kansas City, MO: American Nurses’ Association 1974, 39-58; also in: Healing by the ‘laying-on’ of hands as a facilitator of bioenergetic change: the response of in-vivo human hemoglobin, Psychoenergetic Systems 1976, 1, 121-129.

Leb, Catherine, The effects of Healing Touch on depression (Master’s thesis) University of North Carolina 1996.

* Lin, Yu-Shen Ph.D., Effects of Therapeutic Touch in Reducing Pain and Anxiety in an Elderly Population, University of Virginia 1998.

* Logue, Nancy M.N., Therapeutic Touch. Dalhousie University (Canada), 1998.

* MacNeil, Melanie Sue, Therapeutic Touch and Tension Headaches: A Rogerian Study (Master’s thesis), D’Youville College 1995.

* Matonti, Rosa M.S.N., Utilization of Therapeutic Touch in Clients Diagnosed with Chronic Pain, University of Nevada Las Vegas 1998.

Meehan, T. C. An Abstract of the Effect of Therapeutic Touch on the Experience of Acute Pain in Post-operative Patients (Doctoral dissertation) New York University 1985; also in: Therapeutic Touch and postoperative pain: a Rogerian research study Nursing Science Quarterly 1993, 6(2), 69-78.

Meehan, T.C. et al. The effect of Therapeutic Touch on postoperative pain, Pain 1990, Supplement p.149 (reprinted with kind permission of the publishers).

Mersmann, Cynthia A. Therapeutic Touch and Milk Let Down in Mothers of Non-nursing Preterm Infants (Doctoral dissertation) New York University 1993.

Misra, Margaret M. The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on Menstruation (Master’s thesis) Long Beach: California State University 1994.

Mueller Hinze, Maxine Louise The Effects of Therapeutic Touch and Acupressure on Experimentally-Induced Pain (dissertation), Austin, TX: University of Texas 1988.

Olson, Melodie/ Sneed, Nancee, et al: Therapeutic Touch and post-Hurricane Hugo stress, Journal of Holistic Nursing 1992, 10(2), 120-136.

Olson, Melodie/ Sneed, Nancee: Anxiety and Therapeutic Touch, Issues in Mental Health Nursing 1995, 16, 97-108.

Olson, Melodie/ Sneed, Nancee et al, Stress-induced immunosuppression and Therapeutic Touch Alternative Therapies 1997, 3(2), 68-74.

Parkes, Brenda Sue, Therapeutic Touch as an Intervention to Reduce Anxiety in Elderly Hospitalized Patients (Doctoral dissertation) Austin: University of Texas 1985.

Peck, Susan D. (Eckes), The Effectiveness of Therapeutic Touch for Decreasing Pain and Improving Functional Ability in Elders with Arthritis (Doctoral dissertation), University of Minnesota 1996.

* Peters, Pamela Joan Ph.D., The Lifestyle Changes of Selected Therapeutic Touch Practitioners: An Oral History (Alternative Medicine), Walden University 1992.

Post, Nancy Whelan, The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on Muscle Tone (Master’s thesis) San Jose, CA: San Jose State University 1990.

Quinn, Janet F. An Investigation of the Effect of Therapeutic Touch Without Physical Contact on State Anxiety of Hospitalized Cardiovascular Patients, (Doctoral dissertation) New York University 1982; also in: Advances in Nursing Science 1984, 6, 42-49.

Quinn, Janet F. Therapeutic Touch as energy exchange: replication and extension, Nursing Science Quarterly 1989(a), 2(2), 79-87.

* Raab, Ingrid Psy.D., Touch in Psychotherapy: Controversies and Applications (Somatic Therapy, Massage, Professional Conduct), Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology 1996.

Randolph, Gretchen Lay, The Differences in Psychological Response of Female College Students Exposed to Stressful Stimulus, When Simultaneously Treated by Either Therapeutic Touch or Casual Touch (Doctoral dissertation) New York University 1979; also in: Therapeutic Touch and physical touch: physiological response to stressful stimuli, Nursing Research1984, 33(1), 33-36

Robinson, Loretta Sue, The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on the Grief Experience, (Doctoral dissertation) Birmingham: University of Alabama 1996.

Roth, Suselma D. Effect of Therapeutic Touch Concepts on the Anxiety Levels of Nursing Students in a Psychiatric Setting (Master’s thesis), Bellarmine College 1995.

* Schuller, Donna Elizabeth M.P.H., Therapeutic Touch and Complementary Therapies: A Public Policy Paper, New York Medical College 1997.

Sies, Mary Miller, An Exploratory Study of Relaxation Response in Nurses Who Utilize Therapeutic Touch (Master’s thesis) Tucson: University of Arizona 1987.

Simington Jane A./ Laing Gail P. Effects of Therapeutic Touch on anxiety in the institutionalized elderly, Clinical Nursing Research 1993. 2(4), 438-450.

* Smyth, Patricia Emily D.S.N., Reducing Immunization Pain Perception in Preschoolers with Therapeutic Touch, University of Alabama At Birmingham 1999.

Sodergren, Kathleen Anne, The Effect of Absorption and Social Closeness on Responses to Educational and Relaxation Therapies in Patients with Anticipatory Nausea and Vomiting During Cancer Chemotherapy (Master’s thesis) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota 1993.

Straneva, Jo A. Eckstein, Therapeutic Touch and In Vitro Erythropoiesis (Doctoral dissertation) Indiana University School of Nursing 1993.

Tharnstrom, Christine Ann Louise, The effects of Non-contact Therapeutic Touch on Parasympathetic Nervous System as Evidenced by Superficial Skin Temperature and Perceived Stress (Master’s thesis) San Jose State University, CA 1993.

* Thomas-Beckett, Julie Gwen M.S.N., Attitudes Toward Therapeutic Touch: A Pilot Study of Women with Breast Cancer, Michigan State University 1991.

Turner, J. G/ Clark, AJ/ Gauthier, DK/ Williams, M, The effect of Therapeutic Touch on pain and anxiety in burn patients, Journal of Advanced Nursing 1998, 28, 10-20.

* Wilkinson, Terri Lynn M.S.N., The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on the Experience of Acute Pain in Postoperative Laminectomy Patients, Bellarmine College 1997.

Wirth, Daniel P./ Cram, Jeffery R. Multi-site electromyographic analysis of non-contact therapeutic touch, International Journal of Psychosomatics 1993, 40(1-4), 47-55.

* Woods, Diana Lynn Ph.D., The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Glucocorticoids and Agitated Behaviour in Individuals with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type, University of Washington 1999.

Woods, D.L. et al The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Disruptive Behaviors of Individuals with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (Master’s thesis), Seattle: University of Washington 1993.

Wright, Susan Marie, Development and Construct Validity of the Energy Field Assessment Form (Doctoral dissertation) Rush University College of Nursing 1988.

Zambetis, Donna Blanche, Attitudes of Women with Breast Cancer Toward Therapeutic Touch (Master’s thesis), Michigan State University 1996.

* Zambetis, Donna Blanche M.Sc., Attitudes of Women with Breast Cancer Toward Therapeutic Touch, Michigan State University 1996.