Protocolos REAC na modulação do estresse, ansiedade e depressão em acadêmicos de uma universidade na Amazônia: estudo piloto duplo-cego controlado

Abstract

The structural and social particularities found in the Brazilian Amazon structure become a key element that can negatively impact the lives of college students, such as socioeconomic, structural and family vulnerability, which play a significant role in the development of neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with stress, anxiety and depression. Therapeutic protocols REAC have actions on psycho-emotive-behavioral, vegetative, endocrine, immunological and movement control disorders, with REAC technology being one of the most recent neurobiological modulation technologies for the treatment of depression, anxiety and stress. Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness of the protocols Neuropostural Optimization (NPO) and Neuropsychophysical optimization (NPPO) by REAC technology on the behavioral pattern in a university community in the Brazilian Amazon. Methods: This is a double-blind, randomized, pilot clinical study with a division of control and experimental groups, with behavioral analysis facing a clinical intervention with the NPO and NPPO protocols of the REAC technology. The study was conducted with 30 college students from the Federal University of Amapá (UNIFAP). The variables evaluated were Stress, Anxiety and Depression (DASS-21), tongue positioning pattern, Payne's technique, and functional dysmetria due to patellar alignment after NPO. Results: 92.86% of the sample presented changes in the swallowing pattern after neuropostural optimization REAC. The functional dysmetry was 100% changed. Regarding the Stress, Anxiety and Depression clusters, in the control group the initial and final mean of severity was considered moderate, while in the experimental group the mean in the severe pre-treatment, in the post-treatment mean became moderate. In the analysis of the control group in relation to the experimental group, there was no statistical difference, there was statistical difference in the experimental group REAC before and after the intervention. Conclusions: REAC’s protocols NPO and NPPO were sufficient to modify the lingual position, in addition to having a direct impact on the reduction of fluctuating asymmetry, and can be used as an objective efficacy parameter for future studies. It was also possible to observe behavioral changes, since the clusters of the psychometric scale (DASS-21) had a more noticeable reduction in the experimental group before and after therapy compared to the control group.