The Effect of Quran of Post Operative Pain

October 27, 2015 updated by: Mohammed Khairy Ali, Assiut University

The Effect of Listening to Quran During Cesarean Section on Postoperative Pain

Postoperative pain management is crucial for surgical patients. Management of postoperative pain entails reducing painful symptoms, improving the quality of recovery and resuming normal daily living activities. In addition to the benefits derived from relieving postoperative pain in women undergoing cesarean section, prolonged immobility as a result of pain during puerperium is associated with risk of thromboembolic disease.

Postoperative pain has negative physiological and psychological impact on patients' well-beings and delays the postoperative recovery. Pain may also impair the mother's ability to provide an optimal care for her infant in the immediate postpartum period. Besides that, it also reduces the maternal ability to breast-feed her infant effectively.

Effective pain relief should not interfere with the mother's ability to move around and care for her infant, and that it results in no adverse neonatal effects in breast-feeding women.

Non-pharmacological techniques for reduction of pain are growing rapidly. Spiritual intervention with listening to Quran recitations as an adjunctive therapy in the postoperative period is a non-pharmacological technique that is inexpensive, non-invasive and has no side-effects. Spiritual and Islamic implication could improve postoperative pain 6-8 hours and 24-30 hours in Muslim patients undergoing abdominal surgery. However, there is limited number of published studies on the effect of spiritual and religious intervention on pain after cesarean section.

Listening to Quran recitation elicits a relaxation response of calmness, mindfulness, and peacefulness in Muslims. Pray therapy results in optimal harmonization, which improves psychological, social, spiritual, and physical health status.

The current study aims to investigate the effects of listening to Quran recitation on pain intensity among patients after cesarean section according to the cultural, social and economic differences in Egypt.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

118

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Egypt
      • Assiut, Egypt, 71111
        • Assiut University

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

20 years to 40 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant Muslim women
  • Term (37-40 weeks) gestation
  • uncomplicated singleton pregnancy
  • scheduled for elective lower segment cesarean section under spinal anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any medical diseases
  • Hearing impairment
  • Any contraindication to spinal anesthesia

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Quran group
The patients listened to Quran recitation by a compact disc player through an occlusive headphone, started after induction of spinal anesthesia and continued throughout the entire cesarean section duration.
Other: Quran group
No Intervention: Non-Quran group
Those patients did not listen to Quran and subjected to operative room noise throughout the surgery.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Measurement of postoperative pain by Visual analogue scale
Time Frame: 4 months
4 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
The amount of postoperative analgesics by mg
Time Frame: 4 months
4 months

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Assiut University

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

April 1, 2015

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 1, 2015

Study Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 27, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 27, 2015

First Posted (Estimate)

October 28, 2015

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

October 28, 2015

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 27, 2015

Last Verified

October 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • QPOP

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