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The Effect of Second Level Reiki on Pain Severity and Quality of Life in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis Treatment

NCT06519136 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2024-12-04

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Summary

Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine the effect of 20-minute second-level Reiki application for 4 consecutive days on pain intensity and quality of life in patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) treatment and It is a comparison of the follow-up results of the first level Reiki applied within the scope of the doctoral thesis and the second level Reiki applications to be applied within the scope of this study.

Method: The study will be conducted as a pre-test-post-test, double-blind, randomized controlled trial. After obtaining Ethical Committee approval, participants in the Reiki group will receive 20-minute Reiki sessions at the second level daily from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM for four days, while participants in the sham Reiki group will be informed that distant energy application will be performed but no actual treatment will be administered. The researcher will plan to administer second-level Reiki sessions to 8 patients daily. Throughout the study, patients in both groups will continue their routine treatments. At the beginning and three weeks after the end of the intervention, Kidney Disease Quality of Life Scale (KDQOLTM-36) scores will be collected face-to-face at HD centers, before and after the intervention Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS-Pain), additionally, psychodynamic responses experienced during the first and last Reiki sessions will be evaluated by three blinded assessors via telephone in both study groups.

Results: Statistical analyses of the data will be conducted using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (Version 22.0, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA, License: Hitit University). Depending on the homogeneity of the data distribution, appropriate parametric or nonparametric tests will be performed for data evaluation.

Conditions

  • Hemodialysis

Interventions

OTHER

Distance Reiki

According to Usui, the second level Reiki application will be applied for 20 minutes a day between 19.00 and 21.00 in the evening for four consecutive days by the researcher who has completed his second level training, in accordance with the "Second Level Reiki Application Protocol".

OTHER

Sham Reiki

It will be stated that remote energy application will be applied to the Sham Reiki group and no application will be made.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

    collaborator OTHER

  • Mersin University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
28 Years
Max Age
84 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-10-01
Primary Completion
2024-10-28
Completion
2024-12-14

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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