Clinical trial NCT06384274: The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique and Virtual Reality Glasses on Anxiety and Vital Signs
Official title: The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique and Virtual Reality Glasses on Anxiety and Vital Signs in Individuals Receiving Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Randomized Controlled Trials
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anxiety
Lead sponsor: Necmettin Erbakan University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-04-25
Enrollment: 75
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The aim of the study was to examine the effects of the emotional freedom technique and virtual reality glasses applied to individuals receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the first time on anxiety and vital signs. The hypotheses of this research are that there is a difference between the emotional liberation technique and virtual reality glasses groups and the control group in terms of anxiety and vital signs.

Detailed description: This study was designed as a pretest-posttest regular parallel group, randomized controlled experimental. The research will be carried out in Konya City Hospital Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Unit. Patients will be randomly assigned to three groups: emotional freedom technique group (25), virtual reality glasses group (25) and control group (25). For Emotional Freedom Technique Group: The emotional freedom technique will be applied by the researcher who has received the practitioner training certificate. For Virtual Reality Glasses Group: The video containing the nature walk will be watched by virtual reality. For the Control Group: No intervention will be made in the control group. Standard care will be given. The primary result of this study is to determine the patients' anxiety scores. Secondary results of the research are to determine the patients' vital signs.

Eligibility criteria: İnclusion Criteria

* Applying HBO treatment for the first time,
* Volunteering to participate in the research,
* Those who are between the ages of 18 and 65,
* Able to speak and understand Turkish (patients who will not have communication problems),
* Without a psychiatric diagnosis,
* Those who have not received training on coping with anxiety and fear before,
* Those who have not attended a course on energy therapy before,
* Vital signs are within normal limits

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having hearing and vision problems,
* Urgently placed on HBO treatment,
* Patients without chronic diseases,
* Patients with impaired tissue integrity at EFT energy points

Primary outcomes:
measure: State Anxiety Inventory (STAI)
timeFrame: It will be applied within the first 10 minutes when the patient arrives at the Hyperbaric Oxygen treatment center, 10 minutes before the treatment and 10 minutes after the treatment.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Blood Pressure
timeFrame: It will be applied within the first 10 minutes when the patient arrives at the Hyperbaric Oxygen treatment center, 10 minutes before the treatment and 10 minutes after the treatment.
measure: Pulse
timeFrame: It will be applied within the first 10 minutes when the patient arrives at the Hyperbaric Oxygen treatment center, 10 minutes before the treatment and 10 minutes after the treatment.
measure: Respiration
timeFrame: It will be applied within the first 10 minutes when the patient arrives at the Hyperbaric Oxygen treatment center, 10 minutes before the treatment and 10 minutes after the treatment.
measure: Body Temperature
timeFrame: It will be applied within the first 10 minutes when the patient arrives at the Hyperbaric Oxygen treatment center, 10 minutes before the treatment and 10 minutes after the treatment.
measure: Oxygen Saturation
timeFrame: It will be applied within the first 10 minutes when the patient arrives at the Hyperbaric Oxygen treatment center, 10 minutes before the treatment and 10 minutes after the treatment.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Konya
country: Turkey
facility: Gülsüm Gürsoy Açikgöz
state: Meram
Study officials:
affiliation: Necmettin Erbakan University
name: gülsüm GÜRSOY AÇIKGÖZ
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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