Prayer in Commbate to Corona Virus - Covid -19

NCT ID: NCT04631380

Last Updated: 2022-03-17

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

200 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-08-01

Study Completion Date

2022-01-01

Brief Summary

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PATIENTS WHO ARE ADMITTED TO HOSPITALIZATION IN HCOR AND WHO HAVE THE CONFIRMED DIAGNOSIS OF CORONA VIRUS, WILL BE ASKED TO CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS STUDY THAT INTENDS TO STUDY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE REMOTE INTERCESSION PRAYER IN COMBATING THIS DISEASE.

Detailed Description

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PATIENTS WHO AGREE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDY WILL BE SEPARATED INTO 2 GROUPS, THE INTERVENTION GROUP AND THE CONTROL GROUP.

THE IDENTITY OF THE PATIENTS WILL BE KEPT IN SECRET AND ONLY THEIR INITIALS WILL BE LISTED.

THE INTERVENTION GROUP WILL RECEIVE DAILY PRAYERS AND THE EVOLUTIONARY CLINICAL RESULTS OF THE TWO GROUPS WILL BE PURCHASED.

Conditions

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Covid19

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
RAMDOMIZED DOBLE-BLINDING

Study Groups

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CONTROL

THIS GROUP WILL RECEIVE THE PROTCOLL TREATMENT GIVEN TO PATIENTS COVID -POSITIVE TESTED.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

PRAYER

THIS GROUP WILL RECEIVE THE SAME TREATMENT GIVEN TO THE CONTROL GROUP, PLUS PRAYERS BY THEOLOGIANS WHOSE PRAYERS INTERCEDE IN FAVOR OF THEIR PROMPT RECOVERY

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

PRAYER

Intervention Type OTHER

THE PRAYER GROUP WILL RECEIVE ABSOLUTELY THE SAME CARE AS THE CONTROL GROUP PLUS PRAYERS

Interventions

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PRAYER

THE PRAYER GROUP WILL RECEIVE ABSOLUTELY THE SAME CARE AS THE CONTROL GROUP PLUS PRAYERS

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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INTERCESSORY PRAYER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Patients hospitalized in comun hospital rooms and intensive care units with confirmed COVID-19.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients admitted to the HCor emergency room, diagnosed with COVID-19 infection, however, without indication for hospitalization
* Patients admitted to the HCor emergency room, diagnosed with COVID-19 infection, however, without indication for hospitalization.
* Patients 18 years of age or older
* Patients with indication of palliative care and definition of terminality at hospital admission
* Patients who voluntarily choose not to participate in the study at the time of the • presentation of the Informed Consent Form.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Hospital do Coracao

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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NATHAN V SOUBIHE JR

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital do Coracao

Locations

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Hospital do Coracao

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Site Status

Countries

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Brazil

References

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Hettiaratchy S, Hemsley C. Effect of retroactive intercessory prayer. Paper proves power of statistics, not prayer. BMJ. 2002 Apr 27;324(7344):1037; author reply 1038-9. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11977259 (View on PubMed)

Harris WS, Gowda M, Kolb JW, Strychacz CP, Vacek JL, Jones PG, Forker A, O'Keefe JH, McCallister BD. A randomized, controlled trial of the effects of remote, intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients admitted to the coronary care unit. Arch Intern Med. 1999 Oct 25;159(19):2273-8. doi: 10.1001/archinte.159.19.2273.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 10547166 (View on PubMed)

Hoover DR, Margolick JB. Questions on the design and findings of a randomized, controlled trial of the effects of remote, intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients admitted to the coronary care unit. Arch Intern Med. 2000 Jun 26;160(12):1875-6; author reply 1877-8. doi: 10.1001/archinte.160.12.1875-b. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 10871995 (View on PubMed)

Radin D, Schlitz M, Baur C. Distant Healing Intention Therapies: An Overview of the Scientific Evidence. Glob Adv Health Med. 2015 Nov;4(Suppl):67-71. doi: 10.7453/gahmj.2015.012.suppl. Epub 2015 Nov 1.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26665044 (View on PubMed)

Bleich A. [Intercessory prayer for health: a matter of faith, science or both]. Harefuah. 2002 Jun;141(6):522-3. No abstract available. Hebrew.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12119766 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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PRAYER-COVID19

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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