NCT01117532

Brief Group Intervention Using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for Depression in College Students

Brief Group Intervention Using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for Depression in College Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Soul Medicine Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Depression is an important mental health concern in college students. This study will recruit students who test positive for moderate to severe depression on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Subjects will be randomly assigned to either a treatment or a control condition. Those in the treatment group will receive four 90 minute group classes using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to address traumatic memories and other self-identified causes of depression. It will compare them to a no treatment control group.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)	Four 90 minute group therapy classes of this behavioral intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-05-01
• Completion: 2010-05-01
• First posted: 2010-05-05
• Last updated: 2018-04-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Philippines