The Effect of the Emotional Freedom Technique on Students

NCT05227560 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: ZngldkBEU
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 80
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Introduction: The interruption of education within the scope of quarantine and isolation methods during the pandemic process has caused nursing students studying in clinical practice areas to be away from the clinic for a long time. This situation not only affected the anxiety levels of nursing students, but also caused them to feel inadequate and to experience stress. Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of emotional freedom technique on nursing students' styles of coping with anxiety and stress. Method:In this experimentally designed study with pretest-posttest control group, freedom of emotion technique will be applied to the experimental group for 4 sessions. In the pre-implementation phase and after the emotional freedom technique session, the state anxiety scale, coping styles scale, and subjective discomfort level scale will be applied.

Conditions

Coping Skills; Anxiety; Complementary Therapies; Stress

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

  State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was developed by Spielberger et al. in 1970. It was adapted to Turkish society in 1985 by Öner and Le Compte. The STAI is a scale that separately measures state and trait anxiety levels, with 20 items scored by a Likert scale. The expressions in the scale range from "rarely" to "almost always ."There are two types of expressions in the State-Trait Anxiety scales. Direct expressions express negative feelings, and inverted expressions express positive feelings. Reversed expressions in the state anxiety scale (SAS) are items 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, and 20. Reversed expressions in the trait anxiety scale (TAS) are 21, 26, 27, 30, 33, 36, and 39. The total score obtained from both scales varies between 20 and 80. High scores indicate a severe form of anxiety, whereas low scores indicate a mild form of anxiety

  4 months

• Ways of Coping with Stress Inventory (WCI)

  The ways of coping with stress inventory (Appendix 5) was developed by Şahin and Durak (1995) based on the Ways of Coping Inventory developed by Folkman and Lazarus (1984) in order to measure the level of coping skills with stress. The 30-item scale has five sub-dimensions: Self-Confident, Optimistic, Submissive, Helpless styles, and Seeking Social Support. The averages obtained by dividing the scores obtained by the number of questions give information about the coping strategy levels. For example, a score between 0-3 can be obtained from a sub-dimension. While self-confident, optimistic, and seeking social support are active coping strategies, the self-blaming, and submissive approach is one of the passive coping strategies

  4 months

• The subjective units of distress scale (SUD)

  The cognitive element of EFT involves self-rating of distress severity and pairing of an abbreviated exposure statement and a self-acceptance statement. The severity of distress is evaluated by subjects on an 11- point Likert scale. 0 corresponds to absolutely no distress, while ten corresponds to the maximum possible distress. This situation is considered as the subjective units of distress scale (SUD) and provides clinicians and patients with the measurement of the severity of symptoms experienced by the latter in addition to a repeated measure by which the progress of treatment can be evaluated

  4 months

Study Arms (2)

Emotional Freedom Technique group

EXPERIMENTAL

Personal characteristics questionnaire, State Anxiety Scale (SQS) and Stress Coping Styles Scale (SST) were applied to the intervention group at the pre-test stage. Subjective discomfort level scale (ERDS) was also applied to the intervention group before EFT was applied. After four sessions of EFT, "DKO", "SBO", "ORDS" were applied to the intervention group again in the post-test phase.

Other: Complementary Therapies

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Participants in the control group received no intervention throughout the study.

Interventions

Complementary Therapies OTHER

The emotional freedom technique was applied to the experimental group.

Emotional Freedom Technique group

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Not receiving any psychiatric diagnosis,
• Not receiving any therapy for coping with anxiety and stress,
• Not applying emotional freedom technique before,
• Not being in the COVID-19 diagnosis, treatment care process, and
• Participating in the study determined to be voluntary.

You may not qualify if:

• Not participating in any of the EFT sessions and being diagnosed with COVID-19.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University

Zonguldak, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

Complementary Therapies

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Therapeutics

Study Officials

• Canan Eraydın, Doctorate

  Bülent Ecevit University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Model Details: This study was carried out in an experimental design with pretest-posttest control group in order to determine the effect of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) application on nursing students' anxiety and stress coping styles during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 29, 2021
• First Posted: February 7, 2022
• Study Start: November 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 19, 2021
• Study Completion: December 30, 2022
• Last Updated: February 7, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL
• Time Frame: 12 months

Locations

TU (1)