The Effect of Prayer on Dyspnea Severity, Anxiety and Spiritual Well-Being in Individuals With COPD

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: COPD
• Interventions: Other: A prayer concert will be held for the participants.

• Registration Number: NCT05997394
• Lead Sponsor: Cumhuriyet University

Brief Summary

This study will be conducted in order to examine the effect of prayer to individuals with COPD on the severity of dyspnea, anxiety and spiritual well-being experienced by patients.

Detailed Description

This study will be conducted on people with COPD. People with COPD disease will be divided into two groups. The experimental group will be given a prayer lesson for a month. Prayer listening will not be performed to the control group. At the end of one month, the severity of dyspnea, anxiety and spiritual well-being levels of people in both groups will be re-evaluated.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-08-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-08-10
• Study First Posted: 2023-08-18
• Study Start: 2024-01-10
• Primary Completion: 2024-03-26
• Study Completion: 2024-05-04
• Status Verified: 2024-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-07-12
• Last Update Posted: 2024-07-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 90

Inclusion Criteria

• 90 individuals (45 experiments, 45 controls) who can be contacted, who have agreed to participate in the study
• who are literate, can speak Turkish
• who have not participated in a similar application of this study before
• who have agreed to participate in the study after being informed about the research
• are 18 years old and over, with a COPD diagnosis will be taken

Exclusion Criteria

• Individuals with mental and hearing problems, who have lost a family member and someone close to them in the last year
• who are using tranquilizers/antidepressants
• who have experienced a traumatic situation such as divorce will be excluded from the sample.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Experimental Group	A prayer concert will be held for the participants.	Participants in this group will be given a prayer concert for a month. At the end of one month, the severity of dyspnea, anxiety and spiritual well-being levels experienced by the participants will be re-checked.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Spiritual Well-Being Scale	1 month	as a result of listening to prayer for 1 month, the spiritual well-being levels of the participants in the experimental group increased. A minimum of 0 and a maximum of 48 points are taken from the scale. An increase in scores indicates an increase in the spiritual well-being of patients.
Beck anxiety scale	1 month	as a result of listening to prayer for 1 month, the anxiety severity of the participants in the experimental group decreased. A minimum of 0 and a maximum of 63 points are taken from the scale. The increase in scores indicates that the frequency of anxiety of patients has increased.
dyspnea 12 scale	1 month	as a result of 1-month prayer listening, the severity of dyspnea of the participants in the experimental group decreased. A minimum of 0 and a maximum of 36 points are taken from the scale. The increase in scores indicates that the frequency of dyspnea of patients has increased.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Zile Devlet Hastanesi; 🇹🇷 Tokat, Turkey