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Trial reportStress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress2026

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

Franziska Maier, Ina Luttenberger, Aljoscha Dreisoerner, Bence Szaszkó

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Self-Soothing Touch Reduces Momentary Stress, Fatigue, and Loneliness Comparable to Brief Meditation: A Randomised Controlled Trial.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Franziska MaierDepartment of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9370-4487
Ina LuttenbergerDepartment of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Aljoscha DreisoernerDepartment of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0786-7267
Bence SzaszkóDepartment for Social and Preventive Medicine, Public Mental Health Research Unit, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3173-3325

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic stress has well-documented adverse effects on physical and psychological health. Beyond contributing to the development of fatigue, its impact is intensified by social stressors such as loneliness, making the development of effective interventions crucial. Our randomised controlled trial therefore investigated whether a 14-day self-soothing touch (SST) intervention reduces stress, fatigue, and loneliness compared to a minimal-instruction meditation control in 78 chronically stressed individuals (M

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FatigueLonelinessMeditationStress, PsychologicalTouchAdultEcological Momentary AssessmentFemaleHumansMaleSubjective StressYoung Adultecological momentary assessmentfatiguelonelinessmeditationself‐soothing touchstress

Identifiers

PMID41631519
PMCPMC12865878

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