{"id":4285,"date":"2024-01-08T09:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/?post_type=abstract&p=4285"},"modified":"2024-01-08T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:18:06","slug":"effectiveness-of-spiritual-intervention-on-religious-struggle-among-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"abstract","link":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/abstract\/effectiveness-of-spiritual-intervention-on-religious-struggle-among-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Effectiveness of Spiritual Intervention on Religious Struggle among COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Effectiveness of Spiritual Intervention on Religious Struggle among COVID-19 Patients<\/h2><\/div>

Angelo Christopher M. Aguinaldo, MD and Ma. Teresa Tricia Guison-Bautista, MD<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Background<\/strong>: Spiritual struggle is a state of distress a person experiences when relationships with the sacred are fundamentally challenged or broken. Its presence has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality. During the COVID-19 pandemic, attempts to address the whole being of patients, including spiritual well-being, were explored to improve outcomes of care.<\/p>\n

Objective<\/strong>: The study determined the prevalence of spiritual struggle among COVID-19 related cases and assessed the effectiveness of a formulated spiritual regimen versus the standard pastoral care.<\/p>\n

Methods<\/strong>: This is a randomized, triple-blind, controlled trial. COVID-19 patients tagged as having religious struggle were randomized into two equal groups (chaplain-led spiritual intervention and self-driven standard pastoral care). The Religious Struggle Screening Scale (RSSS) was measured at baseline and 4 weeks after the intervention in both groups.<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong>: Prevalence of spiritual struggle among COVID-19 patients was 67%. Baseline patient demographics were similar for both groups. The overall RSSS slightly decreased throughout the 4-week duration for both groups. In addition, the six dimensions of the RSSS, namely: divine, demonic, interpersonal, moral, ultimate meaning and doubt were noted to have slightly improved. However, the differences in the two groups were not significant.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong>: There is no difference in the effect on religious struggle of a formulated spiritual regimen and standard care given to COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n

Key words<\/strong>: religious\/spiritual struggle, spiritual regimen\/intervention<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,129],"tags":[16,160,161],"class_list":["post-4285","abstract","type-abstract","status-publish","hentry","category-abstract","category-abstract-2023-volume-61-issue-2","tag-abstract","tag-religious-spiritual-struggle","tag-spiritual-regimen-intervention"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/abstract"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/4285\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}