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Papers: 3 Jul 2021 - 9 Jul 2021

RESEARCH TYPE:
Psychology


2021 Jul 05


BMJ Open


11


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Prayer as a pain intervention: protocol of a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.

Authors

Ferreira-Valente A, Jarego M, Queiroz-Garcia I, Pimenta F, Costa R M, Day MA, Pais-Ribeiro J, Jensen MP
BMJ Open. 2021 Jul 05; 11(7):e047580.
PMID: 34226225.

Abstract

Pain is a universal experience and the most common reason for seeking healthcare. Inadequate pain management negatively impacts numerous aspects of patient health. Multidisciplinary treatment programmes, including psychosocial interventions, are more useful for pain management than purely biomedical treatment alone. Recently, researchers showed increasing interest in understanding the role of spirituality/religiosity and spiritual/religious practices on pain experience, with engagement in religious practices, such as prayer, showing to positively impact pain experience in religious individuals. This systematic review will seek to summarise and integrate the existing findings from randomised controlled trials assessing the effects of prayer and prayer-based interventions on pain experience.