Advancing health promotion through massage therapy practice: A cross-sectional survey study.

ABSTRACT: The human resources needed to provide health promotion services to improve health behaviors in populations are currently limited. Health promotion and education is included in the definition of massage therapy, and many within the massage therapy profession understand that health promotion and education are a part of massage therapy practice. However, the amounts and types of health promotion activities in massage therapy practice have not been thoroughly explored. The objective of this study was to investigate the current attitudes, practices, and barriers toward providing health promotion in a national sample of practicing massage therapists. A descriptive cross-sectional survey disseminated May to August 2016 to practicing massage therapists in the United States. The majority (90.2%) of

SUBMITTER: Kennedy AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6030570 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature