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- Title
A Randomised Clinical Trial of a Meridian-Based Intervention for Food Cravings With Six-Month Follow-Up.
- Authors
Stapleton, Peta; Sheldon, Terri; Porter, Brett; Whitty, Jennifer
- Abstract
This randomised, clinical trial tested whether The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) reduced food cravings. This study involved 96 overweight or obese adults who were allocated to the EFT treatment or 4-week waitlist condition. Degree of food craving, perceived power of food, restraint capabilities and psychological symptoms were assessed pre- and post- a 4-week treatment program (mixed method ANOVA comparative analysis), and at 6-month follow-up (repeated measure ANOVA with group data collapsed). EFT was associated with a significantly greater improvement in food cravings, the subjective power of food and craving restraint than waitlist from pre- to immediately post-test ( p < .05). Across collapsed groups, an improvement in food cravings and the subjective power of food after active EFT treatment was maintained at 6 months, and a delayed effect was seen for craving restraint. Although there was a significant reduction in measures of psychological distress immediately after treatment ( p < .05), there was no between-group difference. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that EFT can have an immediate effect on reducing food cravings and can result in maintaining reduced cravings over time.
- Subjects
ENERGY psychology; EMOTIONAL Freedom Techniques; ANALYSIS of variance; COMPARATIVE studies; CLINICAL trials; FOLLOW-up studies (Medicine); PSYCHOLOGICAL distress
- Publication
Behaviour Change, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0813-4839
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1375/bech.28.1.1