The Effect of Second Level Reiki on Pain Severity and Quality of Life in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis Treatment
The Effect of Reiki Therapy on Pain Severity and Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: A Follow-Up and Evaluation Study of First-Level Reiki Versus Second-Level Reiki Application
Mersin University
80 participants
Oct 1, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
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.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria2
- Patients who volunteered to participate in the research and received first level Reiki within the scope of the study titled "The effect of Reiki application on pain severity and quality of life in patients receiving hemodialysis treatment",
- In patients over 65 years of age, patients with a Standardized Mini Mental Test (SMMT) score of 24 points and above will be included in the sample.
Exclusion Criteria6
- Those who do not volunteer to participate in the research,
- Deceased,
- Changing the treatment center,
- Starting to receive peritoneal dialysis treatment or having renal transplantation,
- Using another complementary integrative therapy application,
- In patients over 65 years of age, patients with an SMMT value below 24 will not be included in the sample.
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Interventions
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".
It will be stated that remote energy application will be applied to the Sham Reiki group and no application will be made.
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NCT06519136