TY - JOUR
T1 - Prayer as a pain intervention
T2 - protocol of a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
AU - Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra
AU - Jarego, Margarida
AU - Queiroz-Garcia, Inês
AU - Pimenta, Filipa
AU - Costa, Rui Miguel
AU - Day, Melissa A.
AU - Pais-Ribeiro, José
AU - Jensen, Mark P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Contributors AF-V conceived the study idea, and together with MJa, MJe and MD developed the design of the protocol. IQ-G, FP, RC, JP-R and MJe substantially contributed to the review and refinement of the review design and protocol. AF-V and IQ-G planned the data analysis. AF-V and MJa wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors critically reviewed the manuscript and approved the final version. AF-V, MJa and IQ-G will conduct the review procedures. AF-V is the principal investigator, obtained funding and is the guarantor of the review. Funding This study was supported by a Foundation BIAL Grant for Scientific Research (grant number: 188/18). AF-V has received a grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (grant number: SFRH/BPD/121452/2016). Competing interests None declared.
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PY - 2021/7/5
Y1 - 2021/7/5
N2 - 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 prayer-based 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. PROSPERO registration number CRD42020221733.
AB - 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 prayer-based 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. PROSPERO registration number CRD42020221733.
KW - Complementary medicine
KW - Pain management
KW - Statistics & research methods
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109162721&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047580
DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047580
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34226225
AN - SCOPUS:85109162721
SN - 2044-6055
VL - 11
JO - BMJ Open
JF - BMJ Open
IS - 7
M1 - e047580
ER -