The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique and Virtual Reality Glasses on Anxiety and Vital Signs

Necmettin Erbakan University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Virtual Reality Glasses; Other: Emotional Freedom Technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06384274

NEUniversity

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study was to examine the effects of the emotional freedom technique and virtual reality glasses applied to individuals receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the first time on anxiety and vital signs. The hypotheses of this research are that there is a difference between the emotional liberation technique and virtual reality glasses groups and the control group in terms of anxiety and vital signs.

Full description

This study was designed as a pretest-posttest regular parallel group, randomized controlled experimental. The research will be carried out in Konya City Hospital Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Unit. Patients will be randomly assigned to three groups: emotional freedom technique group (25), virtual reality glasses group (25) and control group (25). For Emotional Freedom Technique Group: The emotional freedom technique will be applied by the researcher who has received the practitioner training certificate. For Virtual Reality Glasses Group: The video containing the nature walk will be watched by virtual reality. For the Control Group: No intervention will be made in the control group. Standard care will be given. The primary result of this study is to determine the patients' anxiety scores. Secondary results of the research are to determine the patients' vital signs.

Enrollment: 75 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

İnclusion Criteria

• Applying HBO treatment for the first time,
• Volunteering to participate in the research,
• Those who are between the ages of 18 and 65,
• Able to speak and understand Turkish (patients who will not have communication problems),
• Without a psychiatric diagnosis,
• Those who have not received training on coping with anxiety and fear before,
• Those who have not attended a course on energy therapy before,
• Vital signs are within normal limits

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having hearing and vision problems,
• Urgently placed on HBO treatment,
• Patients without chronic diseases,
• Patients with impaired tissue integrity at EFT energy points

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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75 participants in 3 patient groups

Emotional Freedom Technique Group

Experimental group

Description:

When the patient, who was determined to be in the emotional liberation group, was admitted to the unit, the patient's consent was first obtained; In the first 10 minutes, the patient will fill out the Patient Introduction Form, State Anxiety Scale, Subjective Disturbance Unit Scale and Vital Signs Form in the Unit. Emotional liberation technique will be applied and then the subjective disturbance unit score will be recorded. Then the patient will fill out the State Anxiety Scale and Vital Signs Forms and the patient will be informed about the treatment. He will then be taken into treatment. When the patient leaves the treatment, the process will be completed by filling out the State Anxiety Scale, Subjective Disturbance Unit Scale and Vital Signs Form again within 10 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Emotional Freedom Technique

Virtual Reality Glasses Group

Experimental group

Description:

Consent was first obtained for admission differences to the patient unit, which was noted to have virtual reality limits; Patient Introduction Form, State Anxiety Scale, Subjective Disturbance Unit Scale and Vital Tests Form will be filled in the unit. Then the virtual reality of life will be explained and glasses will be purchased. Forest/beach/sea video images can be watched in virtual reality. The video is planned to last approximately 10 minutes. The application is planned to take 20-25 minutes. Before the session, the State Anxiety Scale, SUBJECTIVE DISORDER UNIT SCALE and Vital Tests Form will be filled in again, the patient will be informed and then the treatment will be administered. Once the treatment is completed, the patient will take a third measurement within 10 minutes and the State Anxiety Scale, Subjective Disturbance Unit Scale and Life Parameters Form will be filled out again.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Reality Glasses

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

When the patient determined to be in the control group is admitted to the unit, patient consent was obtained within the first 10 minutes and the Patient Introduction Form, State Anxiety Scale, Subjective Disturbance Unit Scale and Vital Signs Form will be filled in the unit. The patient will be prepared for the treatment, will be given special clothing for the treatment, and will be given standard training for the treatment. Then, the second measurement will be taken just before the patient enters the session. There will be at least 20 minutes between the second measurement and the first measurement. The State Anxiety Scale, Subjective Disturbance Unit Scale and Vital Signs Form will be filled out again. After the treatment process is completed, the patient will be measured for the third time and the process will be completed by filling out the State Anxiety Scale, Subjective Disturbance Unit Scale and Vital Signs Form again.