Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study

Krucoff, Mitchell W.; Crater, Suzanne W.; Gallup, Dianne; Blankenship, James C.; Cuffe, Michael S.; Guarneri, Mimi; Krieger, Richard A; Kshettry, Vib; Morris, Kenneth G.; Öz, Mehmet C.; Pichard, Augusto D.; Sketch, Michael H.; Koenig, Harold G.; Mark, Daniel B.; Lee, Kerry L.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)66910-3

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“…Biofield treatment was reported as an alternative therapy and termed as frontier medicine in different fields [19]. This experimental study was designed to demonstrate the effect on susceptibility pattern, biochemical reaction and biotype number after biofield treatment in MDR strain of S. maltophilia.…”

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An Evaluation of Biofield Treatment on Susceptibility Pattern of Multidrug Resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: An Emerging Global Opportunistic Pathogen

Trivedi¹,

Patil²,

Shettigar³

et al. 2015

Clin Microbiol

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Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S. maltophilia) is a Gram-negative bacillus, an opportunistic pathogen, particularly among nosocomial infections. Multi-drug resistant strains are associated with very high rate of morbidity and mortality in severely immunocompromised patients. Present study was designed to evaluate the effect of biofield treatment against multidrug resistant S. maltophilia. Clinical sample of S. maltophilia was collected and divided into two groups i.e. control and biofield treated which were analyzed after 10 days with respect to control. The following parameters viz. susceptibility pattern, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), biochemical studies and biotype number of both control and treated samples were measured by MicroScan Walk-Away ® system. The results showed an overall change of 37.5% in susceptibility pattern and 39.4% in biochemical study while 33.3% changes in MIC values of tested antimicrobials after biofield treatment. Further, the treated group of S. maltophilia has also shown a significant change in biochemical reactions followed by its biotype number as compared to control group. Biochemical reactions of treated group showed negative reaction to acetamide and positive reactions to colistin, glucose, adonitol, melibiose, arabinose, nitrate, oxidation-fermentation, raffinose, rhaminose, sorbitol, sucrose, and Voges-Proskauer as compared with control. The biofield treatment showed an alteration in MIC values of amikacin, amoxicillin/K-clavulanate, chloramphenicol, gatifloxacin, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, ceftazidime, cefotetan, ticarcillin/K-clavulanate, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole. Altogether, data suggest that biofield treatment has significant effect to alter the sensitivity pattern of antimicrobials and biotype number against multidrug resistant strain of S. maltophilia.

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An Evaluation of Biofield Treatment on Susceptibility Pattern of Multidrug Resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: An Emerging Global Opportunistic Pathogen

Trivedi¹,

Patil²,

Shettigar³

et al. 2015

Clin Microbiol

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“…Biofield Energy Therapy has been cited as an example of "frontier medicine", or a therapy "for which there is no plausible biomedical explanation" [16]. This pilot study was designed to gather feedback from burn patients who received BFET to determine whether further investigations into its use for this population are warranted.…”

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“…These therapies may also tap into the usefulness of distraction to reduce pain [15]. Guided imagery and music therapy have also been used in the orthopedic, cardiac surgery, and gynecology fields to address periprocedural and recovery pain and anxiety [16][17][18]. By embracing the usefulness of alternative therapies and increasing the number of tools available to providers, larger numbers of burn-injured patients may be able to experience relief from a myriad of symptoms.…”

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Prospective Evaluation Of Biofield Energy Therapy For Burdensome Symptoms Of Burn Injury: A Pilot Study

Pk¹,

Te²,

Mh³

et al. 2014

J Pain Relief

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Background: Burn injuries are associated with a variety of symptoms including pain, pruritis, anxiety and fatigue. Current pharmacotherapy is able to alleviate one or more of these symptoms, but typically requires different drugs for each symptom. An ideal therapy would be one in which several of these symptoms could be assuaged or eliminated by a single intervention. Biofield Energy Therapy is a unique complementary therapy that was designed to help modulate this myriad of symptoms.

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“…Similar considerations indicate that the STEP study design (Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer; Benson et al 2006) implies that in the absence of SP and IP, there will be only a limited effect of standard care, and that a design accounting for SP would require far more subjects. The same problems afflict the recently published MANTRA II study, whose findings were entirely negative (Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings; Krucoff et al 2005).…”

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“…Several widely publicized studies employing RCTs have reported significant effects of IP (Byrd 1988;Cha, Wirth, and Lobo 2001;Harris et al 1999;Sicher et al 1998). Other studies, however, have been negative (Aviles et al 2001;Krucoff et al 2005;Matthews, Marlowe, and MacNutt 2000); the entirely negative findings of the largest study of IP have recently been published (Benson et al 2006). The NIH is currently funding at least one such study.…”

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Science, Medicine, and Intercessory Prayer

Sloan¹,

Ramakrishnan²

2006

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Among the many recent attempts to demonstrate the medical benefits of religious activity, the methodologically strongest seem to be studies of the effects of distant intercessory prayer (IP). In these studies, patients are randomly assigned to receive standard care or standard care plus the prayers or "healing intentions" of distant intercessors. Most of the scientific community has dismissed such research, but cavalier rejection of studies of IP is unwise, because IP studies appear to conform to the standards of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and, as such, would have a significant advantage over observational investigations of associations between religious variables and health outcomes. As we demonstrate, however, studies of IP fail to meet the standards of RCTs in several critical respects. They fail to adequately measure and control exposure to prayer from others, which is likely to exceed IP and to vary widely from subject to subject, and whose magnitude is unknown. This supplemental prayer so greatly attenuates the differences between the treatment and control groups that sample sizes are too large to justify studies of IP. Further, IP studies generally do not specify the outcome variables, raising problems of multiple comparisons and Type 1 errors. Finally, these studies claim findings incompatible with current views of the physical universe and consciousness. Unless these problems are solved, studies of IP should not be conducted.Over the years, there has been considerable interest in the possibility that religious activity may have health benefits. Most of this research has focused on whether individuals' religious involvement benefits their own health. Over a century ago, Francis Galton (1872) dismissed this possibility, observing no benefit to the religiously active: for example, clergy did not live longer than lawyers, missionaries' ships were no safer than merchant ships, and physicians were not known to suggest religious interventions.Contemporary research, however, has reported positive findings: attendance at religious services or reading the Bible have been associated with reduced mortality (Helm et al. 2000;Hummer et al. 1999). However, religious involvement is strongly correlated with healthrelated factors, such as functional status and social support, which that may confound these associations. For example, people who attend services regularly have greater functional status than those who are bedridden. The latter group is at greater risk of dying than the former, and this difference may account for the increased longevity of regular attenders. Such confounding makes it difficult to draw unambiguous causal inferences from these observational studies.

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Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study

Cited by 134 publications

References 16 publications

An Evaluation of Biofield Treatment on Susceptibility Pattern of Multidrug Resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: An Emerging Global Opportunistic Pathogen

An Evaluation of Biofield Treatment on Susceptibility Pattern of Multidrug Resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: An Emerging Global Opportunistic Pathogen

Prospective Evaluation Of Biofield Energy Therapy For Burdensome Symptoms Of Burn Injury: A Pilot Study

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