The background of the overall paper is based on how long/post-COVID effects can cause acerbate mental health problems like anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders. The central hypothesis is that massage therapy can alleviate these adverse mental health disorders and, by extension, those created by long/post covid.
I want you to please write about depression and massage and how massage is beneficial, and its outcome in alleviating depression.
I will send two links to 2 different articles I want you to use as references/sources. The other two sources you will have to find on your own. just please send me the citations of the two different sources you find on your own. And if possible, send me the full two articles you decide to use, in pdf form. This paper has to be written in APA format
Article 1/ Source 1:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7600300/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7600300/
Effects of Psychoactive Massage in Outpatients with Depressive Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Mixed-Methods Study
Authors: Michaela Maria Arnold, Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen,Norbert Hemrich,and Dominikus Bönsch
Article 2/ Source 2:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20361919
Treatment effects of massage therapy in depressed people: a meta-analysis
Authors: Wen-Hsuan Hou, Pai-Tsung Chiang, Tun-Yen Hsu, Su-Ying Chiu, Yung-Chieh Yen
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