NCT06323083

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

The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique on Perceived Stress and General Self-Efficacy About Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing Lesson in Undergraduate Nursing Students With Fear of Birth

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Selcuk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-07
• Primary completion: 2022-11-28
• Completion: 2023-06-30
• First posted: 2024-03-21
• Last updated: 2024-03-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)