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Study NCT ID: NCT02716467
Status: COMPLETED
Last Update Posted: 2020-11-27
First Post: 2016-03-06

Brief Title: Effect of Intercessory Prayer in Patients With Breast Cancer in Radiotherapy Treatment Clinical Trial
Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo
Organization: University of Sao Paulo

Study Overview

Official Title: Effect of Intercessory Prayer on the Levels of Psychological Variables Spiritual and Biological of Patients With Breast Cancer in Radiotherapy Treatment Clinical Trial
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2020-11
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: 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
Detailed Description: 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 200 and will be adopted as the reference value p 005

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