Effect of spiritual care on pain of breast cancer patients: A clinical trial

Title : Effect of spiritual care on pain of breast cancer patients: A clinical trial

Abstract:

Introduction: One of the most important symptoms and complication of breast cancer is pain with an extensive impact on life dimensions, management of which requires comprehensive nursing care and intervention s. Given that spiritual care is an essential and unique part of care and spirituality is an indispensable part of man’s life, we aimed to determine the effect of spiritual care in breast cancer patients from a multidimensional viewpoint. This clinical trial was conducted on breast cancer patients who presented to two medical centers at Isfahan, iran, during 2014.Fifty patients were randomly selected and assigned to intervention and control groups for the intervention group, the spiritual care program was implemented in groups of five in ten 60-minute-long sessions. Both groups completed the multidimensional pain inventory (MpI), which is a self-report questionnaire, immediately before and six weeks after the intervention. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics analysis of covariance and Chi-squared test were performed in SPSS, version 18.

Audience Take Away:

• Spiritual care is effective on the reduction of pain severity and its adverse effects on the lives of breast cancer patients. Therefore, it is suggested to be used as a non-pharmaceutical complementary treatment for pain relief.

Biography:

Dr Fathi is an intensivist and anestesiologist who has been teaching and doing research in the field of critical care and pain management for more than a decade. He is the critical care program director at Shahid Beheshti Medical University (SBMU)  in Tehran and the director of Intensive Care Unit at Modarres hospital, a 400 bed tertiary care teaching hosiptal affiliated to SBMU. He is also the director of research center for  quality improvement in critical care in Tehran, Iran. He has published diferent papers in reputed journals.