In Brief:
The caring relationship between individual healthcare providers and patients is a critical component of healing. However, caring can result in physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual symptoms in providers that can interfere with their capacity to enter into these relationships. This study used preintervention and postintervention surveys incorporating State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Professional Quality of Life, and Caring Ability Inventory scores to evaluate whether auricular acupuncture is an effective tool for reducing stress and anxiety and to determine if auricular acupuncture impacts provider capacity for developing caring relationships with patients.
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