Brief Group Intervention Using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for Depression in College Students

Soul Medicine Institute

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01117532

SMI-DEP-5410

Details and patient eligibility

About

Depression is an important mental health concern in college students. This study will recruit students who test positive for moderate to severe depression on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Subjects will be randomly assigned to either a treatment or a control condition. Those in the treatment group will receive four 90 minute group classes using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to address traumatic memories and other self-identified causes of depression. It will compare them to a no treatment control group.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• A score of 19 or more on the Beck Depression Inventory
• Currently enrolled at the University of Santo Tomas
• Able to read, understand, and complete forms

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

EFT

Experimental group

Description:

Four 90 minute group EFT classes

Treatment:

Behavioral: EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)

No Treatment

No Intervention group