The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique on Patients Receiving Preventive Foot Care

Bitlis Eren University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Complication Diabetic; Limb Ischemia; Limb Injury; Compliance, Patient; Complication,Postoperative; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Emotional freedom technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07066371

okutan 10

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is planned to examine the effect of the emotional liberation technique on the anxiety level in patients who receive preventive foot wound care and treatment in the postoperative period.

H0: The emotional liberation technique has no effect on the anxiety level in patients who receive preventive foot wound care and treatment in the postoperative period.

H1: The emotional liberation technique has an effect on reducing anxiety in patients who receive preventive foot wound care and treatment in the postoperative period.

Full description

The type of the study is a prospective randomized controlled clinical research model. The study design is a pre-test-post-test control group experimental trial. Data will be collected by the researchers through face-to-face interviews.

Patient identification form, state and trait anxiety scale will be applied to the experimental and control group patients as part of the pre-test. After the patients are given EFT training, they will be asked to apply it twice a week for 1 month. EFT videos and brochures will be given to the patients. 1 EFT session is applied for an average of 15 minutes. No intervention will be applied to the control group patients and the clinic's routine patient care and applications will be continued. State and trait anxiety scale will be applied to the experimental and control group patients as part of the post-test.

*After the data collection process is completed, EFT training will be given to the control group patients if they wish. EFT videos and brochures will be given to the patients. It will be stated to the patients that they can contact the researchers by phone for information/support regarding the applications.

Emotional freedom technique application is an application that works on cognitive and energetic levels. For this reason, in the application of the emotional freedom technique, exposure therapy is applied to individuals first. Exposure therapy is the comparison of individuals with the situation called trigger, which creates a stress response in the individual, during the application. The individual is reminded of the trigger and the individual is made conscious and aware of the discomfort. This situation activates the amygdala and creates a threat warning.

Emotional Freedom Technique Application Guidelines

1. Determination of Subjective Units of Disturbance (SUD)
2. Preparation or setup
3. Application of appropriate acupuncture points in order
4. 9-Gamut: An application that allows the two hemispheres of the brain to be stimulated simultaneously
5. Application of appropriate acupuncture points in order again
6. Control of the differentiation in the level of discomfort with SUDS again

Enrollment: 62 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be 18 years old or older
• Must have no communication problems
• Must have had surgery for a foot ulcer

Exclusion criteria

• Having any auditory or mental problems
• Having difficulty/not being able to apply Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
• Wanting to leave the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

Emotional freedom technique

Experimental group

Description:

After the patients are given EFT training, they will be asked to apply it twice a week for 1 month. EFT videos and brochures will be given to the patients. 1 EFT session is applied for an average of 15 minutes. Emotional Freedom Technique Application Guidelines 1. Determination of Subjective Units of Disturbance (SUD) 2. Preparation or setup 3. Application of appropriate acupuncture points in order 4. 9-Gamut: An application that allows the two hemispheres of the brain to be stimulated simultaneously 5. Application of appropriate acupuncture points in order again 6. Control of the differentiation in the level of discomfort with SUDS again

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotional freedom technique

Standard of Care

No Intervention group

Description:

As part of the pre-test, the patient introduction form, state and trait anxiety scale will be applied to the control group patients. The intervention will not be applied to the control group patients and the clinic's routine patient care and practices will continue. As part of the post-test, the state and trait anxiety scale will be applied to the control group patients again. \*After the data collection process is completed, EFT training will be provided to the control group patients upon their request. EFT videos and brochures will be provided to the patients. It will be stated to the patients that they can contact the researchers by phone for information/support regarding the practices.