Randomized controlled trial of 58 cancer patients; 4-week EFT plus routine care improved anticipatory grief, anxiety, and sleep quality versus routine care alone.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a spiritual, psychological, emotional, or highly unconventional protocol used for meaning, fear reduction, emotional processing, perceived energy balancing, personal agency, or nonphysical healing claims in cancer settings. In cancer care, it should be evaluated by evidence level, intended use, safety, interactions, and whether it is being used as conventional treatment, supportive care.
Randomized trial of group EFT, individual EFT, and wait-list control in 53 melanoma survivors; reported improvements in some wellbeing/recurrence-understanding outcomes and SUD reductions, but not all recurrence/fear measures.
Systematic review/meta-analysis of 10 RCTs involving 774 cancer patients; reported reductions in depression, anxiety, several anticipatory-grief domains, and sleep issues, with limitations and need for outcome standardization.
Non-cancer RCT of EFT for anxiety, depression, and sleep in older people living with HIV; included for broader symptom-support evidence context.
Non-cancer EFT group intervention study for postpartum depression, stress, and anxiety; included for broader mood/stress evidence context.
Quasi-experimental one-group pre/post study of 45 advanced breast cancer patients receiving three days of spiritual EFT; pain intensity changed significantly by day 3.
Consumer overview of EFT tapping points, process, potential benefits, and cautions.
Updated systematic review/meta-analysis of Clinical EFT for PTSD; relevant to cancer trauma/distress context but not cancer-specific.
Multicentre randomized wait-list controlled trial of 121 cancer survivors with self-reported cancer-related cognitive impairment; EFT reduced Cognitive Failures Questionnaire positivity and improved distress, depressive symptoms, fatigue, and quality of life measures.
Integrative single-case study in a breast cancer survivor examining CAM techniques and dynamic inflammatory/emotional changes.
Integrative/proponent article discussing EFT in relation to cancer therapy and emotional/brain-body mechanisms.
Publisher listing for EFT for Cancer by Deborah Miller and Stephanie Marohn, describing cancer-journey tapping scripts and case stories.