Highlights
- •A history of prenatal loss may adversely affect the psycho-social health of pregnant women.
- •Emotional freedom technique (EFT) and music practice can lead to improvements in various psychological and physiological health conditions.
- •EFT and music applied to pregnant women with a history of prenatal loss reduce prenatal anxiety and cortisol levels and increase psychological growth and well-being.
- •There was no study showing that EFT and music were applied to pregnant women with a history of prenatal loss.
Abstract
Introduction
Research has shown that application of Emotional Freedom Technique and music ensures
psychological growth, increases well-being, and decreases cortisol level.
Purpose
In the study, it was aimed to determine the effect of EFT and music applied to pregnant
women who had experienced prenatal loss on their psychological growth, well-being,
and cortisol level.
Methods
The study was conducted as a randomized controlled trial with 153 pregnant women,
53 in EFT group, 53 in music group, and 53 in the control group. The study data were
collected through Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale (SUDS), Subjective Units of
Experience (SUE) Scale, Post Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), and WHO-5 Well-Being
Index, and saliva samples were taken for cortisol evaluation. EFT was applied to the
women two times every other week; the women in the music group listened to music two
times every other week. Throughout the week following the first intervention, the
women continued the interventions at home.
Results
It was determined that EFT and music significantly decreased the participants' subjective
anxiety and salivary cortisol median scores, the lowest anxiety was in the EFT group,
and PTGI and WHO-5 Well-Being Index mean scores increased (p < 0.005). Further analyses
showed that EFT was more effective in terms of increasing well-being than music (p < 0.001;
a > b > c). It was determined that the anxiety levels and salivary cortisol median
values of the control group were statistically significantly higher compared to the
EFT and music groups (p < 0.001).
Conclusion
It was found that EFT and music applied to the women who had experienced prenatal
loss decreased anxiety, ensured psychological growth, improved well-being, and decreased
salivary cortisol level.
Keywords
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Publication history
Accepted:
April 30,
2023
Received in revised form:
March 10,
2023
Received:
September 19,
2022
Publication stage
In Press Journal Pre-ProofFootnotes
☆This study was accepted as a doctoral thesis by Inonu University Health Sciences Institute on October 06, 2021.
☆☆The study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05344144).
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