Effect of Intercessory Prayer on the Levels of Psychological Variables, Spiritual and Biological of Patients With Breast Cancer in Radiotherapy Treatment: Clinical Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 30
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Spiritual Distress assessed using a scale
研究概览
简要总结
Living with breast cancer and forms of treatment, among them radiation therapy can cause both side effects such as pain, fatigue and skin changes that affect the well-being, as anxiety, feelings of isolation and changes in routine, which generate existential conflicts and allow the origin of the spiritual anguish phenomenon, which in turn, aggravates the physical and emotional symptoms and the ability to fight the disease. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the effect of intercessory prayer on levels of spiritual distress, religious / spiritual coping, psychological morbidity (anxiety and depression) and amylase levels salivary present in patients with breast cancer radiotherapy.
详细描述
Reflection on the existence and the meaning of life, common among people with breast cancer radiotherapy generates a suffering that, when directed to the spiritual dimension, results in spiritual distress. In addition, combined with the presence of this phenomenon can flourish during this phase psychological morbidity such as anxiety and depression. In order to face this situation, each person uses cognitive and behavioral strategy according to their beliefs and their meaning of life (religious / spiritual coping). The use of intercessory prayer, where an individual asks a higher being for the benefit of someone seen as receiver, is a strategy that can help people cope with the situation of illness and restore your health. Prayer is one of these activities in the nursing intervention "spiritual support" (5420) proposed by the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC). a complementary alternative therapy is considered and can be used as an adjuvant in radiotherapy. Therefore, the aim of this study is to verify that the intercession of prayer cause positive effects on levels of spiritual distress, religious coping / spiritual and psychological morbidity (anxiety and depression) present in patients with breast cancer radiotherapy. Thus, a clinical trial will be used randomized controlled and mascaraed. Intervention group will receive the prayer of intercession and control groups (positive and negative) usual care. The data will be analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 20.0 and will be adopted as the reference value p <0.05.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Investigator)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Individuals diagnosed with breast cancer in adjuvant and neoadjuvant radiotherapy treatment;
- •Both female and male participants are being studiedolder;
- •Minimum age of participants is 18 years.
排除标准
- •Not being with consciousness, memory and orientation preserved;
- •Patients with clinical conditions that affect the continuity in the study or express request not to continue participating in the study.
结局指标
主要结局
Spiritual Distress assessed using a scale
时间窗: an average of 1 year
spiritual distress
次要结局
- Anxiety and Depression assessed using a scale(an average of 1 year)
- anxiety assessed per physiological parameter using saliva(an average of 1 year)
- Short Spiritual Religious Coping assessed using a scale(an average of 1 year)
研究者
Talita Prado Simão
Student of the Nursing Doctoral
University of Sao Paulo