Boudreault Andréa, Ntetu Antoine Lutumba
Infirmière clinicienne au Carrefour de santé de Jonquière, Québec, Canada.
Rech Soins Infirm. 2006 Sep(86):52-67.
The hospital is an environment which accomodates the elderly persons and in which these last have to make trainings at one time when they are not in full possession with all their physical, psychological and cognitive capacities. They can then live there humiliating situations which generate feelings of discomfort, embarrassment and shame. The presence of interveners not very warm, lacking compassion lack and impressed negative prejudices towards the elderly patients, is another factor which is added to lead them not to feel at ease, involving, inter alia, consequences a fall of their self-esteem. However the affective touch is a strategy which would have the potential to act on the personal value of the elderly patients and to thus improve their self-esteem. It is with a view to popularize the use of the affective touch in practice nurse that a study was carried out in order to check its effects on the self-esteem of the elderly patients. The results confirm that the emotional touch influences positively the self-esteem of the elderly patients. The authors of the study thus recommend the systematization of the affective touch in nursing practice.
医院是一个接纳老年人的环境，而老年人在身体、心理和认知能力尚未完全恢复时，需要在这里进行训练。他们可能会在那里遭遇屈辱的情况，从而产生不适、尴尬和羞耻的感觉。护理人员态度不够热情、缺乏同情心，以及对老年患者持有负面偏见，这是另一个导致他们感到不自在的因素，尤其会导致他们自尊心下降。然而，情感接触是一种有可能作用于老年患者个人价值并进而提高其自尊心的策略。为了推广情感接触在护理实践中的应用，开展了一项研究以检验其对老年患者自尊心的影响。结果证实，情感接触对老年患者的自尊心有积极影响。该研究的作者因此建议在护理实践中系统化地应用情感接触。
