Reiki for promotion of health and sleep quality in hospital nursing professionals

Costa, Josane Rosenilda da; Marcon, Sonia Silva; Nitschke, Rosane Gonçalves; Santo, Fátima Helena do Espírito; Piexak, Diéssica Roggia; Oliveira, Stefanie Griebeler; Goes, Herbert Leopoldo de Freitas; Soto, Pablo Jesús Lopez

doi:10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0535

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE • Rev. Bras. Enferm. 75 (05) • 2022 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0535 copy

Reiki for promotion of health and sleep quality in hospital nursing professionals

Reiki para la promoción de la salud y la calidad de sueño en profesionales de enfermería hospitalaria

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to know the repercussions of a Reiki therapy intervention on the sleep quality of nursing professionals working in a general hospital.

Methods:

a qualitative-quantitative study conducted with 16 professionals from the nursing team of a hospital in northwest Paraná, who participated in an intervention consisting of six weekly Reiki sessions. Data collected from September, 2019 to March, 2020 through semi-structured interviews and application of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index before and after the intervention.

Results:

better sleep quality, characterized by a reduction in the time to fall asleep and in nightmares, and an increase in sleeping hours.

Conclusions:

reiki intervention had a positive impact on the sleep quality of participants.

Descriptors
Therapeutic Touch; Sleep; Nurse Practitioners; Health Promotion; Complementary Therapies.

Participant	Total score		=	Score interpretation		Remarks
Participant	Before	After	=	Before	After	Remarks
1	7	7	0	Poor sleep	Poor sleep	Maintained
2	19	12	-7	Sleep disorder	Sleep disorder	Maintained, but with a lower score
3	10	10	0	Poor sleep	Poor sleep	Maintained
4	10	14	+4	Poor sleep	Sleep disorder	Worsened
5	6	6	0	Poor sleep	Poor sleep	Maintained
6	11	9	-2	Sleep disorder	Poor sleep	Improved
7	12	11	-1	Sleep disorder	Sleep disorder	Maintained, but with a lower score
8	15	12	-3	Sleep disorder	Sleep disorder	Maintained, but with a lower score
9	12	9	-3	Sleep disorder	Poor sleep	Improved
10	9	16	+7	Poor sleep	Sleep disorder	Worsened
11	12	11	-1	Sleep disorder	Sleep disorder	Maintained, but with a lower score
12	12	6	-6	Sleep disorder	Poor sleep	Improved
13	12	8	-4	Sleep disorder	Poor sleep	Improved
14	17	14	-3	Sleep disorder	Sleep disorder	Maintained, but with a lower score
15	18	7	-11	Sleep disorder	Poor sleep	Improved
16	11	15	-4	Sleep disorder	Sleep disorder	Worsened

[...]	Before		After
[...]	n	%	n	%
Domain 1. Subjective sleep quality
Very good	3	18.8	3	19.0
Fairly good	6	37.5	8	50.0
Fairly bad	3	18.8	3	19.0
Very bad	4	25.0	2	12.5
Domain2. Sleep latency
Sleep =15 minutes	4	25.0	6	37.0
16 to 30 minutes	4	25.0	5	31.0
31 to 60 minutes	5	31.3	5	31.0
> 60 minutes	3	18.8	-	-
Took more than 30 minutes to fall asleep
Not once	5	31.3	5	31.0
Less than 1 time/week	2	12.5	4	25.0
1 to 2 times/week	6	37.5	6	37.0
3 times or more/week	3	18.8	1	6.25
Domain3. Sleep duration
More than7 hours	3	18.8	8	50.0
6 to 7 hours	9	56.3	4	25.0
5 to 6 hours	1	6.3	2	12.0
Less than 5 hours	3	18.8	2	12.0
Domain4: Habitual sleep efficiency
Very good	8	50.0	8	50.0
Fairly good	2	12.5	3	19.0
Fairly bad	3	18.8	2	12.0
Vary bad	3	18.8	3	19.0
Domain5. Sleep disturbances
None	2	12.5	3	19.0
Less than once	1	6.3	-	-
1 to 2 times	5	31.3	8	50.0
3 or more times/week	8	50.0	5	31.0
Domain 6. Use of sleep medication
Not during the past month	9	56.3	9	56.0
Less than once	3	18.8	2	12.0
1 to 2 times	1	6.3	1	6.0
3 or more times/week	3	18.8	4	25.0
Domain7. Daytime dysfunction
Difficulty staying awake in the past month
Not once/week	8	50.0	9	56.0
Less than 1 time/week	2	12.5	3	19.0
1 to 2 times/week	3	18.8	3	19.0
3 times or more/week	3	18.8	1	6.0
Feeling indisposed or lack of enthusiasm to perform daily activities
No indisposition	4	25.0	3	19.0
Slight indisposition	2	12.5	7	44.0
Moderate indisposition	4	25.0	4	25.0
A lot of indisposition	6	37.5	2	12.0

Components before and after the intervention	Before		After		p ^* * Median; ^ Interquartile range;
Components before and after the intervention	Med^* * Median;	25-75^ Interquartile range;	Med^* * Median;	25-75^ Interquartile range;	p ^* * Median; ^ Interquartile range;
Subjective sleep quality	1.5	1.00-3.00	1	1.00-2.00	0.201
Sleep latency	1.0	1.00-2.00	1.0	1.00-2.00	0.49
Sleep duration	1.5	1.00-3.00	1.0	1.00-1.75	0.016
Habitual sleep efficiency	3.0	3.00-3.00	3.0	3.00-3.00	1
Sleep disturbances	1.0	1.00-2.75	1.0	1.00-2.00	0.608
Uso of sleep medication	0.0	0.00-1.75	0.0	0.00-2.75	0.521
Daytime dysfunction	2.0	1.00-2.00	1.0	1.00-2.00	0.052
Total	12.0	10.00-14.25	10.5	7.25-13.50	0.207

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[1] Corresponding author: Josane Rosenilda da Costa E-mail: josanerc@gmail.com