Clinical trial NCT05227560: The Effect of the Emotional Freedom Technique on Students
Official title: The Effect of the Emotional Freedom Technique on Students' Anxiety and Coping Styles With Stress During the COVİD-19 Pandemic
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Coping Skills
Anxiety
Complementary Therapies
Stress
Lead sponsor: Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-02-07
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: 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.
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

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.

Detailed description: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), a type of energy that has been applied recently, is a technique applied by touching meridian points to provide anxiety, depression, burnout, stress management, and desensitization to fear. The basic principle of EFT is to send activation and deactivation signals to the brain by stimulating points on the skin with different electrical properties, usually by touching them. The findings obtained from the studies show that this technique, which is a psychotherapeutic technique and provides cognitive restructuring, has statistically significant improvements at the rate of 98% in the management of psychological problems. Studies show that this approach is positive in coping with stress when considered in a wide range. Church et al. revealed that self-administered EFT provides significant improvements in anxiety, depression, pain and craving scores. A large therapeutic effect for EFT was reported in a meta-analysis of 14 randomized controlled trials using the EFT technique for anxiety disorders. In the studies, it was aimed to apply this application, which has proven positive results, to apply the emotional freedom technique in order to reduce the anxiety experienced by the students due to the reasons such as distance education and clinical education during the COVID-19 pandemic process and to enable them to cope with stress.

research questions

This study aims to address the following research questions:

What are the anxiety levels of the students who applied the emotional freedom technique (EFT)? What are the stress coping styles of the students who applied emotional freedom technique (EFT)?

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria:

* 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.

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Primary outcomes:
measure: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)
timeFrame: 4 months
measure: Ways of Coping with Stress Inventory (WCI)
timeFrame: 4 months
measure: The subjective units of distress scale (SUD)
timeFrame: 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Zonguldak
country: Turkey
facility: Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University
Study officials:
affiliation: Bülent Ecevit University
name: Canan Eraydın, Doctorate
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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