NCT04910516

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Effect on Nurses

Examining the Effect of "Emotional Freedom Technique" on Covid-19 Reasoned Fear and Anxiety Levels of Nurses Working in the Emergency Department

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 88 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Marmara University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It has been planned to determine the effect of EFT, which effectiveness has been determined by the studies, on the covid-19 fear and anxiety experienced by the nurses working in the emergency department. The study was designed as a randomized controlled study with pre-test and post-test control group.

Detailed description

Although it has been a year since WHO declared an emergency, the covid-19 virus has mutated and the number of cases has started to increase again as of February 2021. The emergence of uncertainties in the risk of transmission of the mutant virus together with the simultaneous management of both the care process of pandemic patients and the patients who apply for emergency care and treatment in the emergency services increases the fear of the virus. The feeling of fear causes the person to become distracted and increase anxiety by focusing on the fact that he or she is under the threat of the virus. Recently, non-pharmacological techniques are widely used to reduce anxiety and fear. One of them is EFT. It is to examine the effects of EFT, which effectiveness has been determined with the studies carried out in this challenging process, on the covid-19 fear and high anxiety of emergency room nurses.

Conditions

• Anxiety, Covid-19 Fear

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)	It combines cognitive therapy, acceptance and stability therapy, and acupuncture point stimulation, and is based on manual stimulation of acupuncture points specific to Shiatsu or other acupressure massage fo

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-10
• Primary completion: 2021-05-25
• Completion: 2021-07-01
• First posted: 2021-06-02
• Last updated: 2021-06-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)