The Effect of Quran of Post Operative Pain

Overview

Postoperative pain management is crucial for surgical patients. Management of postoperative pain entails reducing painful symptoms, improving the quality of recovery and resuming normal daily living activities. In addition to the benefits derived from relieving postoperative pain in women undergoing cesarean section, prolonged immobility as a result of pain during puerperium is associated with risk of thromboembolic disease. Postoperative pain has negative physiological and psychological impact on patients' well-beings and delays the postoperative recovery. Pain may also impair the mother's ability to provide an optimal care for her infant in the immediate postpartum period. Besides that, it also reduces the maternal ability to breast-feed her infant effectively. Effective pain relief should not interfere with the mother's ability to move around and care for her infant, and that it results in no adverse neonatal effects in breast-feeding women. Non-pharmacological techniques for reduction of pain are growing rapidly. Spiritual intervention with listening to Quran recitations as an adjunctive therapy in the postoperative period is a non-pharmacological technique that is inexpensive, non-invasive and has no side-effects. Spiritual and Islamic implication could improve postoperative pain 6-8 hours and 24-30 hours in Muslim patients undergoing abdominal surgery. However, there is limited number of published studies on the effect of spiritual and religious intervention on pain after cesarean section. Listening to Quran recitation elicits a relaxation response of calmness, mindfulness, and peacefulness in Muslims. Pray therapy results in optimal harmonization, which improves psychological, social, spiritual, and physical health status. The current study aims to investigate the effects of listening to Quran recitation on pain intensity among patients after cesarean section according to the cultural, social and economic differences in Egypt.

Full Title of Study: “The Effect of Listening to Quran During Cesarean Section on Postoperative Pain”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Prevention
    • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: June 2015

Interventions

  • Other: Quran group

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Active Comparator: Quran group
    • The patients listened to Quran recitation by a compact disc player through an occlusive headphone, started after induction of spinal anesthesia and continued throughout the entire cesarean section duration.
  • No Intervention: Non-Quran group
    • Those patients did not listen to Quran and subjected to operative room noise throughout the surgery.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Measurement of postoperative pain by Visual analogue scale
    • Time Frame: 4 months

Secondary Measures

  • The amount of postoperative analgesics by mg
    • Time Frame: 4 months

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Pregnant Muslim women – Term (37-40 weeks) gestation – uncomplicated singleton pregnancy – scheduled for elective lower segment cesarean section under spinal anesthesia Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any medical diseases – Hearing impairment – Any contraindication to spinal anesthesia

Gender Eligibility: Female

Minimum Age: 20 Years

Maximum Age: 40 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Assiut University
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Principal Investigator: Mohammed Khairy Ali, Dr – Assiut University

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