Auriculotherapy as a Coping Strategy in Professional Nursing

Stress, Psychological Clinical Trial

Official title:

Applicability of Auriculotherapy as a Strategy for Stress and Coping in Nursing Professionals

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01424072
• Other study ID #: CAAE: 0060.0.198.000-09
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• First received: August 23, 2011
• Last updated: April 22, 2013
• Start date: January 2010
• Est. completion date: September 2011

Study information

• Verified date: April 2013
• Source: University of Sao Paulo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Food and Drug AdministrationBrazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 75
• Est. completion date: September 2011
• Est. primary completion date: July 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 23 Years to 61 Years

Eligibility

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

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Coping Behavior
• Stress, Psychological

Intervention

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.
• 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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Hospital Universitário de São Paulo	São Paulo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Sao Paulo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Coping Strategy: Domain Social Support(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).	after 60days	Yes
Primary	Coping Strategy: Distancing Domain	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).	after 75 days	Yes
Primary	Coping Strategy: Social Support Domain	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).	after 60 days	Yes
Secondary	Stress Scale	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.	after 60 days	Yes