The Effectiveness of the Auriculotherapy on Reducing Stress and Anxiety in Nursing Student: Randomized Clinical Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 2 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 71
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Students Stress Levels
研究概览
简要总结
Single-blind randomized controlled trial aimed to assess stress and anxiety levels in Nursing School students of Beneficence Portuguese Hospital and review the effectiveness of true and placebo auriculotherapy.
详细描述
Although researches on stress have a strong focus on stress at work,it is very important the evaluation of the stress and its consequences in Nursing students. This allows to understand which stress factors experienced in a negative way could interfere on the adaptive success in school activities. Students can experience symptoms of the alarm phase of stress such as tachycardia, muscle tension, skin and cold extremities, and also the second phase of stress such as headache, sleepiness, irritability and difficulty concentrating. High levels of stress have a substantial effect on attention and can lead to errors, lack of concentration and fluctuations in the level of attention. The auriculotherapy may have an important role as a coping strategy for stress and anxiety. It is a fast, relatively simple, easily performed, safe and without major side effects.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 19 Years 至 55 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Average and high score by the List of Stress Symptoms
- •Voluntary participation in the study
- •Availability of time for submission to the sessions
排除标准
- •Pregnancy
- •Medical license or vacation during the period
- •Low score of stress
研究组 & 干预措施
Placebo Group
Auriculotherapy by sham, at the fist and outer ear points. These points aren't indicated for stress and anxiety.
干预措施: Placebo Group (Other)
Control Group
Control Group didn't receive any treatment and was evaluated at the same time and the same way of interventions group
Auriculotherapy Group
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.
Two points were chosen to treat stress and anxiety (Shenmen and Brainstem).
干预措施: Auriculotherapy (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Students Stress Levels
时间窗: 90 days
The List of Symptoms of Stress is an evaluation questionnaire which consists of a list of 59 psycho-physiological and psychosocial stress, in which the subject must associate to each symptom of the four answers: never (0), rarely (1 ), often (2) or always (3). The scores are added together and the answers provide the level of stress the individual.In this questionnaire to score from 0 to 11 is void, 12 to 29 (low level), 30 to 59 (medium level), 60 to 120 (high level) and 120 to 177, very high level. Participants below 29 points were excluded.
次要结局
- Students Anxiety Levels(90 days)
研究者
Leonice Fumiko Sato Kurebayashi
Leonice Fumiko Sato Kurebayashi
University of Sao Paulo