The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Exam Anxiety

NCT06279117 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2023/9/8
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 46
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Aim: This study was planned to determine the effect of therapeutic touch applied to nursing students on test anxiety. Method: Students who met the inclusion criteria were divided into therapeutic touch and control groups using the randomization method. After the groups were determined, the students filled out the Introductory Information Form and the State Exam Anxiety Scale. 30 minutes before the exam, therapeutic touch was applied to each of the students, who were divided into groups, for 20 minutes. No application was made to the control group, and they were told to wait in the classroom where the group was waiting as they wished.Immediately after the application was completed, the scale was re-applied to both groups.

Conditions

Test Anxiety

Keywords

therapeutic touch; nursing care; test anxiety

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Text Anxiety

  Comparison of test anxiety results of therapeutic touch group and control group. The students' test anxiety score data were collected by the State Test Anxiety Scale. It is a 22-item scale. The scores in the inventory range from 22 to 88. Higher points show a higher level of anxiety.

  Individuals in the therapeutic touch and control groups will be measured as a baseline before the application.

• Text Anxiety

  Comparison of test anxiety results of therapeutic touch group and control group. The students' test anxiety score data were collected by the State Test Anxiety Scale. It is a 22-item scale. The scores in the inventory range from 22 to 88. Higher points show a higher level of anxiety.

  After the therapeutic touch is completed, individuals in both groups will be measured again within an average of 10 minutes.

Study Arms (2)

Therapeutic touch group

EXPERIMENTAL

Individuals who undergo therapeutic touch will receive therapeutic touch for 20 minutes 30 minutes before the exam.

Behavioral: therapeutic touch

control group

NO INTERVENTION

No treatment will be performed on individuals in the control group.

Interventions

therapeutic touch BEHAVIORAL

Individuals who undergo therapeutic touch will receive therapeutic touch for 20 minutes 30 minutes before the exam.

Therapeutic touch group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 30 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• To be over 18 years of age,
• To know Turkish and to agree to participate in the research
• Being a fourth year nursing student
• Not having received any energy therapy (reiki, therapeutic touch) before

You may not qualify if:

• Presence of existing psychiatric illness,
• Using anxiolytic and antidepressant medications

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Dokuz Eylul University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Gizem Göktuna

Izmir, 35000, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Therapeutic Touch

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mind-Body Therapies; Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics; Spiritual Therapies

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Model Details: Randomised controlled clinical trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 18, 2024
• First Posted: February 26, 2024
• Study Start: January 15, 2024
• Primary Completion: May 15, 2024
• Study Completion: May 18, 2024
• Last Updated: May 21, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-05

Locations

TU (1)