Clinical trial NCT03356691: The Evaluation Complementary Spirit Therapy
Official title: Effects of Complementary Spirit Therapy on Servers and Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anxiety
Depression
Pain
Well-being
Stress
Keywords: Spiritist pass
adult
laying of hands
Lead sponsor: Universidade Federal do Triangulo Mineiro
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-11-29
Enrollment: 160
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Background: Complementary Spiritist Therapy (ECT) based on a range of therapeutic resources including prayer, spiritist "passe", fluidotherapy (fluidic water or magnetized water), spirit education. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of ECT in individuals at UFTM Hospital de Clínicas.

Methods: Randomized controlled trial, patients were randomly. Patients will then be allocated into groups:

* The group submitted to ECT (prayer, spiritual education, spiritist "passe" and fluidized water or prayer or spiritist "passe" or laying on of hands with intent to heal or laying on of hands with intent to heal or fluidized water or no-fluidized water or Control group (CG) will not be submitted to any intervention.

Detailed description: Distribution of subjects according to the group to be worked and place of data collection:

Group to be worked:

patients hospitalized in the medical and surgical clinic, orthopedics, neurology, emergency adult , gynecology and obstetrics and employees of the clinic hospital

After randomization, participants included in the study will be allocated to one of the groups:

* The group submitted to ECT:

  1. Prayer: approximation of the person to God through words including gratitude, personal petition and intercession for others, about 2 to 3 minutes;
  2. Spiritual education: reading and commentary of the Gospel according to Spiritism for about 10 minutes;
  3. Spiritist "passe": to carry out the spiritist pass, the passers-by will be asked to position themselves in front of the bed, to place their hands on the head of the person alternating with passing their hands repeatedly on or over the person, positioned lying in the dorsal position, distance about 10 to 15 cm and apply the spiritist pass for 2 to 3 minutes. Individuals will be directed to direct the thoughts in heath during the intervention;
  4. Fluid Therapy by means of magnetized or fluidized water: you will be asked to stand in front of the table containing a tray with 20 ml water cups, to place hands on the cups wishing health and healing intentions, for approximately 2 minutes .

The total time of interventions will be about 10-15 minutes.

* The control group (CG) will not be submitted to any intervention.
* The Spiritist "passe" be submitted to Spiritist "passe": To carry out the spiritist pass, the passers-by will be asked to position themselves in front of the participant, to place their hands on the head of the person alternating with passing their hands repeatedly on or over the person, distance about 10 to 15 cm and apply the spiritist pass between 5-10 minutes. Individuals will be directed the thoughts in heath during the intervention.
* The laying on of hands with intent to heal: To carry out the volunteers, the passers-by will be asked to position themselves in front of the participant, to place their hands on the head of the person alternating with passing their hands repeatedly on or over the person, distance about 10 to 15 cm and apply the spiritist pass between 5-10 minutes. Individuals will be directed the thoughts in heath during the intervention.
* The Fluid Therapy: Fluid Therapy by means of magnetized or fluidized water: you will be asked to stand in front of the table containing a tray with water cups, to place hands on the cups wishing health and healing intentions, for approximately 10 minutes.
* The No-Fluid Therapy: individuals will receive non-fluidic water.
* The Prayer group:

After intervention blood collection will be performed and the questionnaires will be applied again.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The patients with the ability to understand the questionnaires.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients expected to be discharged in less than 4 days
* Lowering the level of consciousness.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Anxiety sympton.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: change in Depression.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in Depression sympton.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in Tension muscle.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in wellness subjective.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in wellness.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in hematological and immunological responses.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in pain.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in blood pressure
timeFrame: The blood pressure will be evaluated an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in respiratory rate
timeFrame: The respiratory rate will be evaluated an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in cardiac rate
timeFrame: The cardiac rate will be evaluated an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in oxygen saturation
timeFrame: The oxygen saturation will be evaluated an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in Heart rate variability
timeFrame: The heart rate variability will be assessed on 1 day.
measure: Change in Burnout.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in Quality of life
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in Stress score.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in Stress.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in perceived anxiety.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
measure: Change in Anxiety.
timeFrame: The instrument will be applied an average on 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 15 days, 2 mounths.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Uberaba
country: Brazil
facility: Élida Mara Carneiro
state: Minas Gerais
Study officials:
affiliation: Spiritist Medical Association of Uberaba
name: Élida M Carneiro, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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