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Prayer as a pain intervention: protocol of a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
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Background 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 prayerbased interventions on pain experience.
Methods The systematic review procedures and its report
will follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic
reviews and Meta-Analyses statement. Electronic searches
in nine databases (Web of Science Core Collection,
MEDLINE, SCIELO Citation Index, PubMed, Cochrane
Central Register of Controlled Clinical Trial, PsycINFO,
Scopus, LILACS and Open-SIGLE) will be performed to
identify randomised controlled trials of prayer-based
interventions. Two independent researchers will assess
studies for inclusion and extract data from each paper.
Risk of bias assessment will be assessed independently
by two reviewers based on the Consolidated Standards
of Reporting Trials statement. Qualitative synthesis of
the body of research will be conducted using a narrative
summary synthesis method. Meta-analysis will be limited
to studies reporting on the same primary outcome. Formal
searches are planned to start in June 2021. The final
report is anticipated to be completed by September 2021.
Discussion Findings will be useful to (1) understand the
condition of our knowledge in this field and (2) provide
evidence for prayer effectiveness in reducing pain intensity
and pain-related stress and increasing pain tolerance in
adults experiencing acute or chronic pain.
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Ferreira-Valente, A., Jarego, M., Queiroz-Garcia, I., Pimenta, F., Costa, R. M., Day, M. A., Pais-Ribeiro, J., & Jensen, M. P. (2021). Prayer as a pain intervention: protocol of a systematic review of randomised controlled trials. BMJ Open, 11(7), e047580. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047580
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BMJ Publishing Group