title: Efficacy of Chinese auriculotherapy for stress in nursing staff: a randomized clinical trial.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  this randomized single blind clinical study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of auriculotherapy with and without a protocol for reducing stress levels among nursing staff.
  
  
  METHODS
  a total of 175 nursing professionals with medium and high scores according to Vasconcelos' Stress Symptoms List were divided into 3 groups: Control (58), Group with protocol (58), Group with no protocol (59). They were assessed at the baseline, after 12 sessions, and at the follow-up (30 days).
  
  
  RESULTS
  in the analysis of variance, statistically significant differences between the Control and Intervention groups were found in the two evaluations (p<0.05) with greater size of effect indices (Cohen) for the No protocol group. The Yang Liver 1 and 2, Kidney, Brain Stem and Shen Men were the points most used.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  individualized auriculotherapy, with no protocol, could expand the scope of the technique for stress reduction compared with auriculotherapy with a protocol. NCT: 01420835.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Leonice Fumiko Sato
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Kurebayashi
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Júlia Paes da
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D055097:Auriculotherapy; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D009729:Nursing; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*; D055815:Young Adult