Prayer in Commbate to Corona Virus - Covid -19

A Double Blind, Controlled, Randomized, Prospective Study That Will Evaluate the Impact of Remote Intercession Prayer on the Clinical Evolution of Patients Diagnosed With COVID -19 in HCOR.

PATIENTS WHO ARE ADMITTED TO HOSPITALIZATION IN HCOR AND WHO HAVE THE CONFIRMED DIAGNOSIS OF CORONA VIRUS, WILL BE ASKED TO CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS STUDY THAT INTENDS TO STUDY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE REMOTE INTERCESSION PRAYER IN COMBATING THIS DISEASE.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Covid19
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: PRAYER

Detailed Description

PATIENTS WHO AGREE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDY WILL BE SEPARATED INTO 2 GROUPS, THE INTERVENTION GROUP AND THE CONTROL GROUP.

THE IDENTITY OF THE PATIENTS WILL BE KEPT IN SECRET AND ONLY THEIR INITIALS WILL BE LISTED.

THE INTERVENTION GROUP WILL RECEIVE DAILY PRAYERS AND THE EVOLUTIONARY CLINICAL RESULTS OF THE TWO GROUPS WILL BE PURCHASED.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 200
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Brazil
  • SP
    • Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, 04005-000
      • Hospital do Coracao

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients hospitalized in comun hospital rooms and intensive care units with confirmed COVID-19.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients admitted to the HCor emergency room, diagnosed with COVID-19 infection, however, without indication for hospitalization
• Patients admitted to the HCor emergency room, diagnosed with COVID-19 infection, however, without indication for hospitalization.
• Patients 18 years of age or older
• Patients with indication of palliative care and definition of terminality at hospital admission
• Patients who voluntarily choose not to participate in the study at the time of the • presentation of the Informed Consent Form.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: CONTROL; THIS GROUP WILL RECEIVE THE PROTCOLL TREATMENT GIVEN TO PATIENTS COVID -POSITIVE TESTED.
Experimental: PRAYER; THIS GROUP WILL RECEIVE THE SAME TREATMENT GIVEN TO THE CONTROL GROUP, PLUS PRAYERS BY THEOLOGIANS WHOSE PRAYERS INTERCEDE IN FAVOR OF THEIR PROMPT RECOVERY	Other: PRAYER; THE PRAYER GROUP WILL RECEIVE ABSOLUTELY THE SAME CARE AS THE CONTROL GROUP PLUS PRAYERS; Other Names: INTERCESSORY PRAYER

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
DEATH OR RECOVERY	WE WILL EVALUATE DEATHS OR HOSPITAL DISCHARGE	60 DAYS

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
NEED FOR MECHANICAL VENTILATION	NEED FOR MECHANICAL VENTILATION	60 DAYS
TIME OF REMAINED INTUBATED	TIME OF REMAINED INTUBATED	60 DAYS
LENGTH OF STAY IN ICU	LENGTH OF STAY IN ICU	60 DAYS
TIME OF STAY HOSPITALIZED	TIME OF STAY HOSPITALIZED	60 DAYS
Occurrence of clinical complications.	Occurrence of clinical complications that were not included before diagnostic confirmation and that may be related to covid infection.	60 DAYS

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hospital do Coracao
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: NATHAN V SOUBIHE JR, Hospital do Coracao

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Harris WS, Gowda M, Kolb JW, Strychacz CP, Vacek JL, Jones PG, Forker A, O'Keefe JH, McCallister BD. A randomized, controlled trial of the effects of remote, intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients admitted to the coronary care unit. Arch Intern Med. 1999 Oct 25;159(19):2273-8. doi: 10.1001/archinte.159.19.2273. Erratum In: Arch Intern Med 2000 Jun 26;160(12):1878.
• Hettiaratchy S, Hemsley C. Effect of retroactive intercessory prayer. Paper proves power of statistics, not prayer. BMJ. 2002 Apr 27;324(7344):1037; author reply 1038-9. No abstract available.
• Hoover DR, Margolick JB. Questions on the design and findings of a randomized, controlled trial of the effects of remote, intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients admitted to the coronary care unit. Arch Intern Med. 2000 Jun 26;160(12):1875-6; author reply 1877-8. doi: 10.1001/archinte.160.12.1875-b. No abstract available.
• Radin D, Schlitz M, Baur C. Distant Healing Intention Therapies: An Overview of the Scientific Evidence. Glob Adv Health Med. 2015 Nov;4(Suppl):67-71. doi: 10.7453/gahmj.2015.012.suppl. Epub 2015 Nov 1.
• Bleich A. [Intercessory prayer for health: a matter of faith, science or both]. Harefuah. 2002 Jun;141(6):522-3. No abstract available. Hebrew.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): January 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 4, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 13, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): November 17, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 17, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 16, 2022
• Last Verified: March 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: PRAYER-COVID19

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: They will not

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No