The Effect of Reiki Applicatıon on Sleep and Qualıty of Life in Epılepsy Patıents

NCT ID: NCT05635578

Last Updated: 2023-06-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-11-15
• Study Completion Date: 2023-05-01

Brief Summary

After the general period of positive social adjustments, epilepsy is in a high life cycle to control seizures. During seizures in epilepsy, patients' quality of life and antiepileptic life span can be seen in daily life such as daily life and daily awakenings.

Reiki, which has been proven by studies in health problems such as fatigue and pain; an energy that can be unblocked or applied in a non-applicable way can benefit from a therapy that can be applied by touch or remotely, without negative effects. In the literature, reiki applied to epilepsy patients has sleep and quality of life. This thesis is planned to do research on sleep and living areas of reiki applied to epilepsy patients.

Detailed Description

This research; It will be carried out on a voluntary basis with the treatment of 60 patients with epilepsy, 30 of which will be tested, 30 of which will be comprehensive, from the University of Fır Hospital Neurology Clinic Polyclinic and those over 18 years of age, who can communicate adequately, who have psychiatric problems, who are in the last six body mind, who can control the phone, who will come to the scale, who will come to sleep. The study will be a pretest-posttest controlled group study. Data; Patient Information Form will be collected with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale, Quality of Life in Epilepsy Scale. The control method will not interfere. If we try, first the application places and the way of doing it will be shown. Administration through 4 weeks, first consecutive week; 1 session face-to-face 30-45 minutes, then 3 sessions of 21 minutes of training, 2 sessions of 21 minutes of training in the other 3 training courses, a total of 4 weeks 10. For face-to-face reiki; A room will be used inside the hospital. Reiki to 7 different chakras to be taken in the first session. For the other sessions, before the application, all will be called and informed about the reiki will be sent, and then he will apply reiki from a distance for 21 minutes by using the training and reiki symbols. The scales will be reapplied by the researcher, either face to face or face to face, during the experiment and 4 weekends to be controlled. Finally, there will be a significant difference between the pretest and the son test.

Conditions

Sleep; Life Quality

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Experimental:

reiki will be aplicated

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

sleep

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

reiki

Control

Routine maintenance will be applied.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

sleep

reiki

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

life quality

Eligibility Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• being under the age of 18
• Having trouble communicating
• Having a psychiatric problem
• Having received body-mind therapy (yoga, reiki, massage, meditation) in the last six months
• Not being willing to participate in the research
• Not having a phone
• Having a scale score of less than and/or equal to 5 on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale
• Using sleeping pills

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Ataturk University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

gülcan bahcecioğlu

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Gülcan B Turan

Elâzığ, Merkez, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

2022/30-34

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id