Non-verbal communication of compassion: measuring psychophysiologic effects.
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine December 20, 2011 Kathi J Kemper, Hossam A Shaltout
Calm, compassionate clinicians comfort others. To evaluate the direct psychophysiologic benefits of non-verbal communication of compassion (NVCC), it is important to minimize the effect of subjects' expectation. This preliminary study was designed to a) test the feasibility of two strategies for maintaining subject blinding to non-verbal communication of compassion (NVCC), and b) determine...