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A Feasibility Study of Emotional Freedom Technique Taught in the Curriculum for Secondary School Students, to Reduce Stress and Test Anxiety and Enhance Coping Skills

Ledger, K. · International Journal of Healing and Caring · 2019

Outcome study👥 138 participants⚖️ vs. no-treatment classes (delayed EFT training)Preliminary✓ Source-checked📍 Canada
In plain English. A Canadian high school teacher built tapping into a stressful exam-prep unit for 138 students across grades 10 to 12, checking their stress, coping skills, and test anxiety at three points over four weeks. This was designed as a feasibility check — can EFT actually be taught as part of a normal class? — rather than a tightly controlled trial, so read it as evidence the approach is workable in a real classroom rather than a precise measure of how much it helped.

What they found

138
people took part

EFT was taught across four consecutive weekly classes to 138 secondary students during pre-exam season, with stress, coping, and test anxiety measured before intervention, after the first class, and after the full training; the study was designed to test feasibility of curriculum-embedded EFT rather than to report a single pooled effect size.

How the study worked

Who took partCanadian secondary school students (combined grades 10-12, enrolled in a Planning 10 course) during a stressful pre-examination period (n=138)
What they didParticipants received tapping and were measured before and after.
Compared withno-treatment classes (delayed EFT training)
Measured withPerceived Stress Scale, Brief COPE, Westside Test Anxiety Scale

The full record

DesignOutcome study
Participants138 people
PopulationCanadian secondary school students (combined grades 10-12, enrolled in a Planning 10 course) during a stressful pre-examination period
Comparison groupno-treatment classes (delayed EFT training)
Outcome measuresPerceived Stress Scale, Brief COPE, Westside Test Anxiety Scale
JournalInternational Journal of Healing and Caring
Year2019
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
MethodEFT / tapping
Publication typeStudy / trial
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source

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Ledger, K. (2019). A Feasibility Study of Emotional Freedom Technique Taught in the Curriculum for Secondary School Students, to Reduce Stress and Test Anxiety and Enhance Coping Skills. International Journal of Healing and Caring.

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE Test Anxiety & Students 138 participants WHAT THEY FOUND EFT was taught across four consecutiveweekly classes to 138 secondary studentsduring pre-exam season, with stress… Outcome study · 138 participants Ledger · 2019 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com