NCT05758636

The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique on Anxiety Levels of Nurses Caring for COVID19 Patients

Status unknown NA Last updated 7 March 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Emotional Freedom Technique in EFTs in 100 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

2 March 2022

Primary endpoint
25 September 2022

1 June 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Marmara University
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	100
Start date	2 March 2022
Primary completion	25 September 2022
Estimated completion	1 June 2023
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• Emotional Freedom Technique

Conditions studied

• EFTs — all drugs for EFTs →
• Nursing Caries — all drugs for Nursing Caries →
• Anxiety — all drugs for Anxiety →

Sponsor

Marmara University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with EFTs or Nursing Caries. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

It is very important to protect and improve the physical, mental and social health of nurses, especially in the event that nurses frequently encounter patients diagnosed or suspected of COVID-19 and are exposed to the virus for a long time due to the long duration of care, increasing cases and the death of their colleagues. Que et al., 2020). Current researches have made it necessary for nurses to have difficulties in effectively coping with the anxiety experienced in the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected the whole world, and to apply new effective methods, as their training includes effective coping methods (Feinstein and Church, 2010). There are studies that are effective in reducing stress and anxiety, such as meditation, yoga, and breathing therapies, which are recommended to prevent the increase in stress and anxiety levels that may occur in nurses by evaluating the experienced situations (Labrague et al., 2020; Vieta et al., 2020). In addition to these applications, it is seen that Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) has been increasingly used recently in controlling and reducing anxiety (Hartmann, 2016). EFT is a type of energy-based psychotherapy that combines the components of Western psychology and Eastern medicine, applied to eliminate negative thoughts and feelings and problems related to emotions (İnangil et al., 2020; Church, 2013). Although the EFT technique is used in many different areas today, its effect on the level of anxiety in nurses during the COVID-19 process is not yet known. As a result, to evaluate the effect of EFT, whose positive results have been proven by many studies, on the anxiety level of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.