The Effect of Therapeutic Touch and Reiki Application on Anxiety and Stress Levels in Female Academicians

April 4, 2023 updated by: Emine Yıldırım, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University

Determination of the Effect of Therapeutic Touch and Reiki Application on Anxiety and Stress Levels in Female Academicians

Stress and anxiety form an integral part of organizational life in universities. Studies reveal that the stress experienced by academicians has increased dramatically in recent years. Stress affects employee performance. In order to reduce the stress level of female academicians, methods such as non-pharmacological treatment, massage that can be applied to support scientific medicine, acupressure, hot and cold application, therapeutic touch should be used. The non-pharmacological methods that investigators will look at in our research are therapeutic touch and reiki. The improvement of the balance in the body and the reduction of negative effects such as pain, stress and anxiety with non-pharmacological touch methods are explained by Gate Control and Endorphin theories. The universe of the research will be female academicians working at Osmaniye Korkut Ata University. participants will be determined by the block randomization method. Data; It will be collected using the Introductory Information Form, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Level Assessment Form. TT and Reiki application will have positive contributions as it is a non-pharmacological method, easy to apply and low cost. When the studies were examined, no other study was found in the same application as our study.

Therefore, in this study, it was aimed to evaluate the effect of therapeutic touch and reiki practice on anxiety and stress levels in female academicians.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

17

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Academicians who do not have any communication problems
  • Do not have psychological problems

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Those who do not want to participate in the research

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: control group
no intervention
Experimental: intervention
Reiki touch and terapotic touch will be done
Other: THERAPEUTIC TOUCH
Therapeutic touch will be done. It will be applied twice a week for two weeks, each application for 20 minutes.
Other: REİKİ
It will be applied twice a week for two weeks, each application for 20 minutes.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale
Time Frame: 4 week

The Dass-21 scale consists of 21 items that examine depression, anxiety and stress under three headings.

This scale is a 4-point Likert-type scale and consists of 7 questions each measuring "depression, stress and anxiety dimensions".

Subjects are asked to mark four different score types (0, 1, 2, and 3) opposite to each sentence according to the severity and frequency of their feelings, how they have felt in the last few weeks.

If the given sentence does not fit the person at all, it is required to mark 0, if it is a satellite to some extent, 1 if it is a satellite to some extent, 2 if it is a satellite to a significant degree, and 3 if it is exactly a satellite.

Then, the scores for each scale are summed and depression, anxiety and stress scores are found.

Getting 5 points or more from depression sub-dimension, 4 points or more from anxiety, 8 points or more from stress indicates that the individual has a related problem.
4 week

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Osmaniye Korkut Ata University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Anticipated)

May 15, 2023

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

June 15, 2023

Study Completion (Anticipated)

July 20, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 10, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 4, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

April 5, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 5, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 4, 2023

Last Verified

April 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • p3s5qeux

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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