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The purpose of this study was to evaluate differences in the effects of Qi therapy without touching or withtouching on anxiety, mood, neurohormones, and cellular immune function. Twenty-four healthy male subjects were ran-domly assigned to either Qi therapy (external Qigong) without touching (QTN) or with touching (QTT). A 2×3 repeatedmeasures ANOVA revealed no significant differences between the effects of QTN and QTT (all P > 0.05). There wereno significant group-by-time interactions for any of the variables. There was a significant time effect on anxiety, alert-ness, anger, depression, fatigue, tension, cortisol levels, neutrophil function, and natural killer (NK) cell cytotoxicity.Separate repeated measures ANOVAs for each intervention revealed significant effects on anxiety, alertness, depression,fatigue, tension, cortisol levels, and NK cell cytotoxicity for both QTN and QTT, and on neutrophil function for QTNonly. These findings suggest that there are few differences between the effects of QTN and QTT.
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1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Measurements of anxiety state and mood
2.3. Hormone assays
2.4. Measurement of immunological function
2.5. Interventions
2.6. Procedure
2.7. Statistical analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
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