Nursing / Healthcare

This pilot project explored the use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for stress reduction in first-semester nursing students and found it to be a feasible and effective technique. The study suggests that EFT may provide a novel strategy for reducing stress and distress in nursing students in an academic setting, offering a cost-effective and individualized solution.

This case study analyzed the impact of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) on managing post-cesarean section pain in a single patient at Jemursari Islamic Hospital, Surabaya. The intervention consisted of daily 30-minute EFT sessions over three consecutive days, involving tapping on acupressure points while focusing on pain-related thoughts. The results showed a reduction in pain intensity, with the patient's pain scale score decreasing from 4 to 2. The study concluded that EFT may be an effective nonpharmacological approach to post-operative pain management. However, it emphasized the need for further research with larger sample sizes and control groups to validate these findings.

The study investigates the effectiveness of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) in reducing workplace stress among healthcare professionals. Using a quasi-experimental design, 46 participants were selected via convenience sampling from Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The intervention demonstrated significant reductions in workplace stress, with paired sample t-tests and ANOVA analyses showing p-values < 0.001 and moderate to large effect sizes. The findings highlight EFT as a promising tool for managing stress in healthcare settings and its potential for broader applications.

This systematic review assessed various interventions, including Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), aimed at reducing burnout and improving mental health among hospital nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although interventions like EFT showed potential, the overall quality of evidence was low to very low, with high variability in outcomes. The study emphasizes the need for well-designed trials to establish effective methods for supporting nurses' mental health.

This review examines various interventions for reducing test anxiety among nursing students, including Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). The study found that EFT, along with other methods like aromatherapy and music therapy, was effective in reducing test anxiety.

This pre-experimental study with a one-group pre-post-test design found that Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique (SEFT) significantly reduced anxiety in maternity mothers during active phase I labor, with average anxiety scores decreasing from 24.44 to 19.06. The study suggests that SEFT can be an effective therapy for reducing maternal anxiety during labor.

This study aims to examine the effect of EFT on self-esteem among nurses. The results showed that EFT was effective in increasing self-esteem.

This systematic review evaluated whether e-healthcare interventions improve burnout and other mental health aspects in nurses. The results showed that e-healthcare interventions may improve mental health outcomes, including burnout, but due to the poor methodological quality and wide heterogeneity of the interventions and outcomes, the conclusions are not sufficiently reliable.

This study aimed to assess the efficacy of the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) on the anxiety and fear of COVID-19 levels of nurses in the emergency department. The results showed significant reductions in fear and anxiety levels among the nurses after the intervention.

This systematic review examines the effects of various interventions on the mental health of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting positive outcomes from techniques like emotional freedom techniques, mindfulness, and laughter yoga. The findings suggest that these interventions improved nurses' well-being, emphasizing the need for more interventional studies to support healthcare professionals during future pandemics. 

This study (RCT) found that both Breathing Therapy and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) significantly reduced stress, anxiety, and public speaking anxiety in Turkish nursing students. EFT was shown to be more effective than Breathing Therapy in decreasing speech anxiety levels.

This study investigated the effectiveness of four virtual one-on-one Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) sessions in reducing stress among undergraduate nursing students. Results showed a significant decrease in stress levels, with participants finding EFT easy to learn and expressing intentions to continue using it for future stress management.  

The study compared the effects of EFT and music therapy on nursing students taking clinical exams in Turkey. 90 students were randomly assigned to one of three groups (MUSIC, EFT, CONTROL). The study aimed to assess the effects of music, EFT and no intervention on situational anxiety and physiological measures. The study showed that both music and EFT had reduced the situational anxiety significantly (p < .05). The changes in mean vital signs were not universally significant, although there were some shifts.

A study in France found that EFT significantly improved mood, reduced aggression and agitation, and improved relationships with family and carers among older adults, and the technique has also been used effectively in various healthcare settings, including care homes and community nursing. It is encouraging to see publication of this article in a nursing journal as well as to see evidence of exploration of the use of EFT in an important demographic of older adults for which there is limited study.

This study examined the effects of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) on exam anxiety in Turkish nursing students, finding that three group EFT sessions significantly reduced state and trait anxiety levels as measured by the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Results suggest that EFT may be an effective non-pharmacological intervention for managing exam-related stress, though further research is needed to confirm long-term benefits.The study was published in the European Journal of Integrative Medicine: Volume 32, December 2019, 101002