Auriculotherapy in Stress reduction in primary care health professionals
- Conditions
- Occupational stress
- Registration Number
- RBR-38hjyt3
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade do Estado da Bahia, Departamento de Ciências da Vida
- Brief Summary
Introduction: occupational stress is a chronic strain that can cause physical, mental and behavioral changes in health workers. Auriculotherapy is a possible instrument for minimizing the effects of work stress. Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of auriculotherapy in reducing occupational stress in health workers from the Family Health Strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: randomized controlled clinical trial in two groups: auriculotherapy group for stress and placebo group. The Shapiro-Wilk test was used to assess data normality. The repeated measures Anova test and the Tukey post hoc test were applied to normal samples. The Friedman and Durbin-Conover tests were used in the group with non-normal distribution. For the therapy effect size, the Cohen d index was calculated. A significance level of 95% and p-value <0.05 was considered. Results: the auriculotherapy group showed a reduction in occupational stress of 16.3% and 23.7% after the third and sixth sessions of auriculotherapy, with a Cohen d index of 1.12 (large effect) and 1.82 (very large effect). ), respectively. Conclusion: auriculotherapy proved to be effective in reducing occupational stress in health workers of the Family Health Strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is suggested that new studies be developed during and after the pandemic in order to improve the quality of life of health workers.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Data analysis completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Volunteers with a stress level above the cutoff point; both genders; have completed the proposed questionnaires and scales; age between 18 and 70 years.
Participants on vacation or leave during the survey period; pregnant women; medical diagnosis of depression; medical prescription of antidepressants; having undergone auriculotherapy treatment in the last three months; have done some training in auriculotherapy.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcome 1: It is expected to observe the reduction of occupational stress in the health workers of the Family Health Strategy measured in percentage in the third and sixth sessions of auriculotherapy and after 15 days the treatment is completed through the application of the Stress Scale at Work , and the effect size of auriculotherapy using the Cohen's d-index statistical analysis tool.;Outcome found 1: In the auriculotherapy group, there was a reduction of 16.13% and 23.7% in the third and sixth therapy session, respectively. Fifteen days after the end of therapy, the reduction was 20.5%. Cohen's d index, in the auriculotherapy group, showed a large effect size in the third session of auriculotherapy (1.12) and very large in the sixth session (1.82). At follow up, the effect remained very large (1.81).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Outcome found 2: In the auriculotherapy group, through the Friedman test, it was observed that there was statistical significance (p<0.001). The Durbin-Conover test identified that the statistical significance occurred between the paired groups EET1/EET2; EET1/EET3 and EET1/EET4; all with p value <0.001.;Expected outcome 2: It is expected that the reduction of occupational stress will be significantly greater in the group that will receive auriculotherapy in the points related to the reduction of stress from the statistical point of view.