Religiousness and the Quality of Life of Adventists: Clinical Trial

• Register: REBEC
• Last refreshed on: 27 May 2013
• Main ID: RBR-5dcz6y
• Date of registration: 27/06/2011
• Primary sponsor: FACULDADE ADVENTISTA DA BAHIA - Brazil
• Public title: Religiousness and the Quality of Life of Adventists: Clinical Trial
• Scientific title: Parish Nursing and Quality of Life of Adventists: Clinical Trial
• Date of first enrolment: 01/05/2011
• Target sample size: 180
• Recruitment status: Recruitment completed
• URL: http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/rg/RBR-5dcz6y/
• Study type: Intervention
• Study design: Clinical trial preventive, randomized,single blinded, paralel with two arms and fourth phase.

Countries of recruitment

Brazil

Contacts

• Name: Gina Abdala
• Affiliation: FACULDADE ADVENTISTA DA BAHIA

• Name: Gina Abdala
• Affiliation: FACULDADE ADVENTISTA DA BAHIA

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Being a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, have 35 years or more. Membership in the church means to one who is christened and it regular member of the church records, which may or might not be frequenting weekly.
Exclusion criteria: To refuse to participate in this study.

Age minimum: 35Y
Age maximum: 100Y
Gender: -

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Quality of life, religion, spirituality, elderly.
I01.800
K01.844
M01.060.116.100
F02.880.705

Intervention(s)

Religious intervention: the group will be divided in experimental (Group 1- 90 members) and control group (Group 2 - 90 members). The intervention will be through home visitation to the experimental group encouraging them to attend the church (at least once/week), praying 3 times per day and reading the Bible (at least 1 chapter per day). This intervention will take place for four months. The Group 2 will not receive any intervention. The questionaries of Religion Index Scale (Duke-Durel) and Short-Form SF36 Health Survey will be used on this research.

Primary Outcome(s)

Those who have received at the beginning scores less than 50 on the SF 36 will have the intervention (experimental group) and this test will take place on the end of the study in order to have a comparisson with control group too.

Secondary Outcome(s)

From this result, the study group will check if the quality of life of the church members would increase from the influence of increased religiosity.

Secondary ID(s)

Nº 0057.0.070.000-11

Nº 029/11

Source(s) of Monetary Support

FACULDADE ADVENTISTA DA BAHIA - Brazil

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Gina Andrade Abdala - Brazil