The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique on Perceived Stress and General Self-Efficacy in Nursing Students

NCT ID: NCT06323083

Last Updated: 2024-03-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-11-07
• Study Completion Date: 2023-06-30

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.

Conditions

Emotion Regulation; Stress; Self Efficacy

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Intervention group

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) application was applied to those in the intervention group.

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.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Emotional Freedom Technique

Intervention Type: OTHER

Emotional freedom techniques is a psychophysiological intervention that combines psychological methods from traditional therapies with somatic stimulation. EFT involves tapping acupuncture points to desensitize negative emotions by focusing on the emotion.

Control group

The control group was also tested at the first interview and again 3 weeks later.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Emotional Freedom Technique

Emotional freedom techniques is a psychophysiological intervention that combines psychological methods from traditional therapies with somatic stimulation. EFT involves tapping acupuncture points to desensitize negative emotions by focusing on the emotion.

Intervention Type: OTHER

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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 40 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Selcuk University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Halime Esra Meram

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Halime Esra Meram, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Selcuk University

Locations

Selcuk University

Konya, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

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Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id