The Effect of Therapeutic Touch and Reiki Application on Anxiety and Stress Levels in Female Academicians

NCT ID: NCT05799560

Last Updated: 2023-04-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 17 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-05-15
• Study Completion Date: 2023-07-20

Brief Summary

Stress and anxiety form an integral part of organizational life in universities. Studies reveal that the stress experienced by academicians has increased dramatically in recent years. Stress affects employee performance. In order to reduce the stress level of female academicians, methods such as non-pharmacological treatment, massage that can be applied to support scientific medicine, acupressure, hot and cold application, therapeutic touch should be used. The non-pharmacological methods that investigators will look at in our research are therapeutic touch and reiki. The improvement of the balance in the body and the reduction of negative effects such as pain, stress and anxiety with non-pharmacological touch methods are explained by Gate Control and Endorphin theories. The universe of the research will be female academicians working at Osmaniye Korkut Ata University. participants will be determined by the block randomization method. Data; It will be collected using the Introductory Information Form, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Level Assessment Form. TT and Reiki application will have positive contributions as it is a non-pharmacological method, easy to apply and low cost. When the studies were examined, no other study was found in the same application as our study.

Therefore, in this study, it was aimed to evaluate the effect of therapeutic touch and reiki practice on anxiety and stress levels in female academicians.

Conditions

Stress; Anxiety

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

control group

no intervention

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

intervention

Reiki touch and terapotic touch will be done

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

THERAPEUTIC TOUCH

Intervention Type: OTHER

Therapeutic touch will be done. It will be applied twice a week for two weeks, each application for 20 minutes.

REİKİ

Intervention Type: OTHER

It will be applied twice a week for two weeks, each application for 20 minutes.

Interventions

THERAPEUTIC TOUCH

Therapeutic touch will be done. It will be applied twice a week for two weeks, each application for 20 minutes.

Intervention Type: OTHER

REİKİ

It will be applied twice a week for two weeks, each application for 20 minutes.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Academicians who do not have any communication problems
• Do not have psychological problems

Exclusion Criteria

• Those who do not want to participate in the research

• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Osmaniye Korkut Ata University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Emine Yıldırım

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

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Identifier Type: -

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