Adrenaline releases level on skin-to skin touches

Human pleasant touches promote feelings of security, supportiveness, and wellbeing. Conversely, human unpleasant touches promote the body for either “fight or flight” or “short term acute stress” during emergencies, feeling of stress or danger. The promoted stress response is released from the hypot...

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Main Author: George, Maryan
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Language:English
Published: Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper 2020
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spelling ndltd-UPSALLA1-oai-DiVA.org-his-190902020-09-24T05:24:21ZAdrenaline releases level on skin-to skin touchesengGeorge, MaryanHögskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper2020Touchesfight or flightadrenalineindirect competitive ELISAnon-parametric testhuman animal interactionnoradrenalineand oxytocin.Biomedical Laboratory Science/TechnologyBiomedicinsk laboratorievetenskap/teknologiHuman pleasant touches promote feelings of security, supportiveness, and wellbeing. Conversely, human unpleasant touches promote the body for either “fight or flight” or “short term acute stress” during emergencies, feeling of stress or danger. The promoted stress response is released from the hypothalamus by the sympathetic nerve system further to the spinal cord to reach the signals to the adrenal medulla, where stress hormones adrenaline is released. Adrenaline, which is characterized by a mimic sympathetic nerve system, interacts with α and β receptors on different organs. The aim for this study was to investigate whether the stroker (partner/stranger) touch effects on adrenaline hormone releases. The null hypothesis for this study entails a significant adrenaline reduction in partners’ touches compared with strangers’ touches. Indirect competitive ELISA method was used, and concentration data of a total of sixteen participants was obtained. Whitney-U test was carried out to compare group differences within stroker (stranger/partner) touches and adrenaline releasing level. In addition, correlation in adrenaline with noradrenaline and oxytocin hormones was obtained using Spearman’s correlation test. The significant p-value 0.05 was conducted. The result of this study showed no differences between stroker (partner/stranger) associated with adrenaline hormone release. Correlation between partner maximum (max) concentration data for both oxytocin and adrenaline had significant differences. However, max variables for adrenaline and noradrenaline within stroker did not show significant differences. The conclusion of this study is that the gentle touch stimulus used in this study was not enough to detect stress hormone in adrenaline. Student thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesistexthttp://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-19090application/pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language English
format Others
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topic Touches
fight or flight
adrenaline
indirect competitive ELISA
non-parametric test
human animal interaction
noradrenaline
and oxytocin.
Biomedical Laboratory Science/Technology
Biomedicinsk laboratorievetenskap/teknologi
spellingShingle Touches
fight or flight
adrenaline
indirect competitive ELISA
non-parametric test
human animal interaction
noradrenaline
and oxytocin.
Biomedical Laboratory Science/Technology
Biomedicinsk laboratorievetenskap/teknologi
George, Maryan
Adrenaline releases level on skin-to skin touches
description Human pleasant touches promote feelings of security, supportiveness, and wellbeing. Conversely, human unpleasant touches promote the body for either “fight or flight” or “short term acute stress” during emergencies, feeling of stress or danger. The promoted stress response is released from the hypothalamus by the sympathetic nerve system further to the spinal cord to reach the signals to the adrenal medulla, where stress hormones adrenaline is released. Adrenaline, which is characterized by a mimic sympathetic nerve system, interacts with α and β receptors on different organs. The aim for this study was to investigate whether the stroker (partner/stranger) touch effects on adrenaline hormone releases. The null hypothesis for this study entails a significant adrenaline reduction in partners’ touches compared with strangers’ touches. Indirect competitive ELISA method was used, and concentration data of a total of sixteen participants was obtained. Whitney-U test was carried out to compare group differences within stroker (stranger/partner) touches and adrenaline releasing level. In addition, correlation in adrenaline with noradrenaline and oxytocin hormones was obtained using Spearman’s correlation test. The significant p-value 0.05 was conducted. The result of this study showed no differences between stroker (partner/stranger) associated with adrenaline hormone release. Correlation between partner maximum (max) concentration data for both oxytocin and adrenaline had significant differences. However, max variables for adrenaline and noradrenaline within stroker did not show significant differences. The conclusion of this study is that the gentle touch stimulus used in this study was not enough to detect stress hormone in adrenaline.
author George, Maryan
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author_sort George, Maryan
title Adrenaline releases level on skin-to skin touches
title_short Adrenaline releases level on skin-to skin touches
title_full Adrenaline releases level on skin-to skin touches
title_fullStr Adrenaline releases level on skin-to skin touches
title_full_unstemmed Adrenaline releases level on skin-to skin touches
title_sort adrenaline releases level on skin-to skin touches
publisher Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper
publishDate 2020
url http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-19090
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