Auriculotherapy as a Coping Strategy in Professional Nursing

Overview

This randomized clinical trial aimed at evaluating the auriculotherapy as coping strategies in 75 nursing professionals in a University Hospital.

Full Title of Study: “Applicability of Auriculotherapy as a Strategy for Stress and Coping in Nursing Professionals”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Treatment
    • Masking: Single (Participant)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: July 2010

Detailed Description

There is consensus that psychological and social factors can lead to physical health problems of individuals and coping strategies in stressful situations may be crucial for the mental, physical and social development of people. Taking care of professionals who provide health services is a key strategy, since good results depend on the service, especially in work teams healthy and, therefore, able to promote the humanization of service.

Interventions

  • Other: auriculotherapy by needles
    • The chinese auriculotherapy is a intervention used by Chinese Traditional Medicine in order to balance the body energy and to treat several kind of diseases using semi-permanent needles in specific points of the auricular pavilion.
  • Other: auriculotherapy by seeds
    • We used the three points Shenmen, Kidney, and Brain Stem with mustard seeds, 1 time per week for 8 sessions.The subjects were instructed to stimulate the points three times a day.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • No Intervention: Control Group
    • Control Group didn’t receive any treatment and was evaluated at the same time and the same way of interventions group
  • Experimental: Auriculotherapy by needles
    • The investigators used 3 points, Shenmen, Kidney, and Brain Stem with semi-permanent needles of 1.8 mm, 1 time per week for 8 sessions.
  • Experimental: Auriculotherapy by seeds
    • The investigators used the three points Shenmen, Kidney, and Brain Stem with mustard seeds, 1 time per week for 8 sessions.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Coping Strategy: Domain Social Support(After 60 Days)
    • Time Frame: after 60days
    • Scale information: Folkman and Lazarus Coping Strategy Inventory with 66 items. The scale is constructed by 8 different “domains”: confrontation, distancing, self-control, social support, acceptance of responsibility, escape avoidance, problem solving and positive reappraisal.The questions are scored by Likert scale: 0 (not used this strategy); 1 (used somewhat); 2 (used enough) and 3(used in large quantities) to the 66 items (Folkman and Lazarus Coping Strategy Inventory). It performed a summation of items and defined the scores: 0-4 points (not use this strategy), 5-9 (use this strategy a bit), 10-14 ( use this strategy quite) 14-18 (use strategy plenty).
  • Coping Strategy: Distancing Domain
    • Time Frame: after 75 days
    • The questions are scored by Likert scale: 0 (not used this strategy); 1 (used somewhat); 2 (used enough) and 3(used in large quantities) to the 66 items (Folkman and Lazarus Coping Strategy Inventory). It performed a summation of items and defined the scores: 0-4 points (not use this strategy), 5-9 (use this strategy a bit), 10-14 ( use this strategy quite) 14-18 (use strategy plenty).
  • Coping Strategy: Social Support Domain
    • Time Frame: after 60 days
    • Scale information: Folkman and Lazarus Coping Strategy Inventory with 66 items. The scale is constructed by 8 different “domains”: confrontation, distancing, self-control, social support, acceptance of responsibility, escape avoidance, problem solving and positive reappraisal.The questions are scored by Likert scale: 0 (not used this strategy); 1 (used somewhat); 2 (used enough) and 3(used in large quantities) to the 66 items (Folkman and Lazarus Coping Strategy Inventory). It performed a summation of items and defined the scores: 0-4 points (not use this strategy), 5-9 (use this strategy a bit), 10-14 ( use this strategy quite) 14-18 (use strategy plenty).

Secondary Measures

  • Stress Scale
    • Time Frame: after 60 days
    • Scale information: Stress Symptoms List (LSS)with 60 items (better outcome)Low score: 12/29 points; Medium score: 30/60 points; High score: 61/120 points; Very high score (worse outcome): >120 points.

Participating in This Clinical Trial

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

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 23 Years

Maximum Age: 61 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • University of Sao Paulo
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Principal Investigator: Leonice Fumiko Sato Kurebayashi, Leonice Fumiko Sato Kurebayashi – University of Sao Paulo
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Leonice FS Kurebayashi, Principal Investigator, University of São Paulo

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