| 书目名称 | Investigating Prayer | | 副标题 | Impact on Health and | | 编辑 | Ian N. Olver | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Focuses on studying prayer from a scientific research perspective.Includes a discussion about the impact of the study on the investigators, data managers, and ethics committee members | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book relates the experience of researching, planning, and conducting a scientific study into intercessory prayer (prayer for others). The purpose of the study was to ascertain whether the impact of prayer could be measured in a formal study, based on the large number of anecdotal reports of efficacy. The study was a prospectively randomized double-blind trial that added prayer by an established Christian prayer group to conventional therapy for cancer. The unique design feature was that the primary endpoint was a change in a validated scale of spiritual well-being. The patients were informed that they were participating in a study about spiritual well-being and quality of life but remained blinded to the intervention. The initial observation from the baseline data was that spiritual well-being made a unique contribution to quality of life. The final outcome of the study was that there was a statistically significant difference in spiritual well-being favoring the prayer group. Thebackground includes a fascinating review of the medical literature on the topic, which contains positive and negative studies that each attracts a vigorous debate about methodology, endpoints, and whe | | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | | 关键词 | Cancer Treatment; Complementary & Alternative Medicine; FACIT-Sp scale; Faith; Intercessory prayer; Mindf | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4571-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4939-0078-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4614-4571-5 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 |
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