The efficacy of Emotional Freedom Technique in reducing workplace stress among healthcare professionals: A quasi-experimental study

In plain English. Forty-six healthcare workers in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan tried EFT tapping for workplace stress, and their average stress scores dropped meaningfully, from about 26.6 down to 21.2, a real effect unlikely to be chance. The size of the improvement varied by how stressed people were to start, ranging from a modest to a fairly large effect depending on the subgroup, with the biggest gains reaching what's considered a large effect in psychology research. This was a quasi-experimental design with a modest sample and convenience sampling rather than a fully randomized trial, so it's a solid early result rather than the final word.

Verification note. Published in a low-visibility/limited-indexing journal; core figures confirmed but treat journal prominence as a quality caveat, not a validity issue.