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

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: COPD
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: A prayer concert will be held for the participants.

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 Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 90
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Tokat, Turkey, 60000
    • Zile Devlet Hastanesi

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

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 Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental Group; 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.	Other: A prayer concert will be held for the participants.; Participants who are in the experimental group will be given a prayer audience.
No Intervention: Control Group; There will be no prayer audience for participants in this group.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
dyspnea 12 scale	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.	1 month
Beck anxiety scale	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.	1 month
Spiritual Well-Being Scale	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.	1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Cumhuriyet University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Gülden Kaygusuz Gülden Kaygusuz, Tokat Zile Devlet Hatanesi

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 10, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 26, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): May 4, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 10, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 10, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): August 18, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 16, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 12, 2024
• Last Verified: July 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: ANXIETY; DYSPNEA; SPIRITUAL GOODNESS
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Respiratory Tract Diseases; Respiration Disorders; Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory; Dyspnea
• Other Study ID Numbers: SCU-SBF-GK-01

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: It is not intended to share the data of individual participants.

Drug and device information, study documents

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