The Effectiveness of the Auriculotherapy on Reducing Stress and Anxiety in Nursing Student: Randomized Clinical Trial
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
- Enrollment
- 71
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Students Stress Levels
Study Overview
Brief Summary
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.
Detailed Description
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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Single (Participant)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 19 Years to 55 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Average and high score by the List of Stress Symptoms
- •Voluntary participation in the study
- •Availability of time for submission to the sessions
Exclusion Criteria
- •Pregnancy
- •Medical license or vacation during the period
- •Low score of stress
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Students Stress Levels
Time Frame: 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.
Secondary Outcomes
- Students Anxiety Levels(90 days)
Investigators
Leonice Fumiko Sato Kurebayashi
Leonice Fumiko Sato Kurebayashi
University of Sao Paulo