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The Effect of Religious Practices on Mental and Spiritual Health

NCT05622604 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 312

Last updated 2025-10-10

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effects of using a religious mobile app (i.e., Pray.com) in participants who have high levels of stress. The main question it aims to answer is:

•What are the effects of using Pray.com on stress in individuals who report high levels of stress?

Participants will complete measures at baseline (i.e., Time 1), four-weeks (i.e., Time 2), and eight weeks (i.e., Time 3). Participants will be randomly assigned one of three conditions: (1) autonomous use (directed to use the app daily), (2) meditative prayer condition (directed to use this feature of the app daily), or (3) wait-list control condition.

Conditions

  • Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

pray.com app (autonomous use)

Participants will be given a free subscription to the Pray.com app and will be directed to use the app five days per week.

BEHAVIORAL

pray.com app (meditative prayer condition)

Participants will be given a free subscription to the Pray.com app and will be directed to listen to a meditation prayer five days per week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Biola University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Todd Hall, PhD · Biola University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-30
Primary Completion
2023-03-10
Completion
2023-03-10

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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