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Depression symptoms improve after successful weight loss with emotional freedom techniques

Stapleton, P., Church, D., Sheldon, T., Porter, B., Carlopio, C. · ISRN Psychiatry · 2013

Randomized trial 👥 96 participants Preliminary ✓ Source-checked 📍 Australia
In plain English. Ninety-six overweight or obese adults were randomly assigned to four weeks of tapping or a waitlist. The tapping group's depression and several other psychological symptoms dropped significantly, and the depression improvement was still there a year later.

What they found

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Ninety-six overweight or obese adults were randomly assigned to four weeks of tapping or a waitlist.

RCT: 96 overweight/obese adults randomly allocated to a 4-week EFT program or waitlist. Significant pre-post reductions in depression, interpersonal sensitivity, obsessive-compulsivity, paranoid ideation and somatization, with depression gains maintained at 12 months.

How the study worked

Who took part adults with overweight/obesity participating in an EFT-based weight-loss program (n=96)
What they did In a randomized controlled trial, participants were randomly assigned to receive tapping or a comparison condition, then measured and compared.
Measured with depression symptoms, body weight

The full record

DesignRandomized trial
Participants96 people
Populationadults with overweight/obesity participating in an EFT-based weight-loss program
Outcome measuresdepression symptoms, body weight
JournalISRN Psychiatry
Year2013
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
MethodEFT / Tapping
Publication typeStudy / trial
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source

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Stapleton, P., Church, D., Sheldon, T., Porter, B., & Carlopio, C. (2013). Depression symptoms improve after successful weight loss with emotional freedom techniques. ISRN Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/573532

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE Weight & Food Cravings 96 participants WHAT THEY FOUND RCT: 96 overweight/obese adults randomlyallocated to a 4-week EFT program orwaitlist. Significant pre-post… Randomized trial · 96 participants Stapleton · 2013 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com