NCT01424072

Auriculotherapy as a Coping Strategy in Professional Nursing

Applicability of Auriculotherapy as a Strategy for Stress and Coping in Nursing Professionals

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 23 Years – 61 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This randomized clinical trial aimed at evaluating the auriculotherapy as coping strategies in 75 nursing professionals in a University Hospital.

Detailed description

There is consensus that psychological and social factors can lead to physical health problems of individuals and coping strategies in stressful situations may be crucial for the mental, physical and social development of people. Taking care of professionals who provide health services is a key strategy, since good results depend on the service, especially in work teams healthy and, therefore, able to promote the humanization of service.

Conditions

• Stress, Psychological
• Coping Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	auriculotherapy by needles	The chinese auriculotherapy is a intervention used by Chinese Traditional Medicine in order to balance the body energy and to treat several kind of diseases using semi-permanent needles in specific points of the auricular pavilion.
OTHER	auriculotherapy by seeds	We used the three points Shenmen, Kidney, and Brain Stem with mustard seeds, 1 time per week for 8 sessions.The subjects were instructed to stimulate the points three times a day.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-07-01
• Completion: 2011-09-01
• First posted: 2011-08-26
• Last updated: 2013-05-31
• Results posted: 2013-05-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil