Clinical trial NCT06323083: The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique on Perceived Stress and General Self-Efficacy in Nursing Students
Official title: The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique on Perceived Stress and General Self-Efficacy About Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing Lesson in Undergraduate Nursing Students With Fear of Birth
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Emotion Regulation
Stress
Self Efficacy
Keywords: Emotion Regulation
Stress
Self Efficacy
Nursing Student
Lead sponsor: Selcuk University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-03-21
Enrollment: 50
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The study was designed to be randomly controlled.
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The study was conducted to determine the effect of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) on perceived stress and general self-efficacy in obstetrics and gynecology nursing lesson in undergraduate nursing students with fear of birth.

The samples were applied to undergraduate nursing students satisfying the research criteria in a state university nursing faculty in Konya at November 2022.

Detailed description: The study was designed to be randomly controlled. Block randomization method was used to determine the intervention and control groups. Randomization was done by a biostatistician outside the researcher. 50 nursing students were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. The study was carried out in three stages with three EFT applications, applied for approximately 20-30 minutes, at 7-day intervals. In the first stage, students who met the inclusion criteria were identified by interviewing students who thought they had a fear of childbirth. After informed consent was obtained from the students and pretest data were collected, they were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. EFT application was applied to those in the intervention group. No intervention was made for the control group. Data was collected twice for the intervention group, before the first EFT application (pretest) and after the last EFT application (posttest). The control group was also tested at the first interview and again 3 weeks later. The applications were carried out face to face with the students as a group. For the collection of research data, "Descriptive Information Form", "General Self-Efficacy (GSE) Scale", "Perceived Stress Scale" and "The Subjective Units of Distress (SUD) Scale" were used.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Female students who were taking the Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing course at the Faculty of Nursing, who volunteered to participate in the study, and who thought they had a fear of childbirth were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Female students who did not take the Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing course at the Faculty of Nursing, did not volunteer to participate in the study, and did not think they had a fear of childbirth were not included in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: General Self-Efficacy Scale
timeFrame: Change from The General Self-Efficacy Scale at three weeks
measure: Perceived Stress Scale
timeFrame: Change from The Perceived Stress Scale at three weeks
measure: The Subjective Units of Distress Scale
timeFrame: Change from The Subjective Units of Distress Scale at three weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Konya
country: Turkey
facility: Selcuk University
Study officials:
affiliation: Selcuk University
name: Halime Esra Meram, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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