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Improving undergraduate nursing student stress: Tapping to success in academia with emotional freedom techniques

Cyr, J. · Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering · 2022

Outcome study 👥 7 participants Preliminary ✓ Source-checked 📍 United States
In plain English. Seven stressed-out nursing students did four half-hour tapping sessions online, one a week for a month. Their stress scores fell by nearly ten points on a standard scale, and every one of them said they planned to keep using EFT on their own afterward. It's a tiny study with no comparison group, so treat it as an early signal rather than proof.

What they found

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Seven stressed-out nursing students did four half-hour tapping sessions online, one a week for a month.

Mean Perceived Stress Scale scores dropped from 23.29 (SD 5.59) to 13.29 (SD 8.22) after four weekly 30-minute virtual EFT sessions; the author reported this within-group change did not reach statistical significance in this small sample.

How the study worked

Who took part undergraduate nursing students (n=7)
What they did Participants received tapping and were measured before and after, without a separate comparison group.
Measured with Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Subjective Units of Distress (SUD)

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DesignOutcome study
Participants7 people
Populationundergraduate nursing students
Outcome measuresPerceived Stress Scale (PSS), Subjective Units of Distress (SUD)
JournalDissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering
Year2022
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
MethodEFT / Tapping
Publication typeDissertation
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source

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Cyr, J. (2022). Improving undergraduate nursing student stress: Tapping to success in academia with emotional freedom techniques. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering.

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE Test Anxiety & Students 7 participants WHAT THEY FOUND Mean Perceived Stress Scale scores droppedfrom 23.29 (SD 5.59) to 13.29 (SD 8.22)after four weekly 30-minute… Outcome study · 7 participants Cyr · 2022 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com