Auriculotherapy for anxiety, quality of life and fear of COVID-19 in pregnant women: a randomized clinical trial.

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Revista Brasileira De Enfermagem Pub Date : 2025-04-28 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1590/0034-7167-2024-0062

Hérica Pinheiro Corrêa, Kauê Batista Andrade, Tânia Couto Machado Chianca, Antônio Prates Caldeira, Carolina Amaral Oliveira Rodrigues, Maria Fernanda Santos Figueiredo Brito, Caroline de Castro Moura, Diego Dias de Araújo

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Abstract

Objectives: to assess the effect of auriculotherapy on anxiety, quality of life and fear of COVID-19 in pregnant women.

Methods: multicenter, single-blind, randomized clinical trial. Fifty-three pregnant women participated in intervention group and 51 in placebo group. Outcomes were measured by State Anxiety Inventory, World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref, Fear of COVID-19 Scale and intervention assessment. Data were analyzed using Generalized Estimating Equations.

Results: in both groups, there was reduced anxiety. In terms of quality of life, intervention group showed significant improvement in physical and environmental domains. In psychological domain, there was improvement in both groups, and in social domain, there was no significant change. Fear of COVID-19 decreased significantly in both groups.

Conclusions: auriculotherapy had an effect equal to that of the placebo group in reducing anxiety and fear of COVID-19, and superior effect in the quality of life physical and environmental domains. REBEC: RBR-7fsjmyc.

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耳疗治疗孕妇焦虑、生活质量和对COVID-19的恐惧：一项随机临床试验

目的：评价耳廓疗法对孕妇新冠肺炎焦虑、生活质量和恐惧的影响。方法：多中心、单盲、随机临床试验。干预组53例，安慰剂组51例。结果采用状态焦虑量表、世界卫生组织生命质量、COVID-19恐惧量表和干预评估进行测量。使用广义估计方程对数据进行分析。结果：两组患者的焦虑程度均有所降低。在生活质量方面，干预组在身体和环境方面均有显著改善。两组在心理领域均有改善，在社会领域无显著变化。两组患者对COVID-19的恐惧均显著下降。结论：耳廓疗法在减轻患者对新冠肺炎的焦虑和恐惧方面的效果与安慰剂组相当，在生活质量、身体和环境方面的效果优于安慰剂组。三弦琴:RBR-7fsjmyc。

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Revista Brasileira De Enfermagem NURSING-

CiteScore

2.30

自引率

7.70%

发文量

477

审稿时长

21 weeks

期刊介绍： The Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem created in 1932, March 20 is the official publication of the Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem (Brazilian Nursing Association) has as purpose to disseminate the scientific production from different nursing interest areas of knowledge, including those which express the political project of the Association. The Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem is the oldest journal of the Brazilian nursing. Its first title was "Annaes de Enfermagem" from 1932 to 1941, being entitled Anais de Enfermagem" until 1955, when its title was changed to the current.