The Effect of Nursing Comfort Care Integrating With the Holy Qur’an Recitation on Comfort in Muslim Patients With mechanical Ventilation

Abstract

This quasi-experimental study purposed to examine the effect of nursing comfort care integrating with the Holy Qur'an recitation on comfort in Muslim patients with mechanical ventilation. The 56 participants recruited form the intensive care unit (ICU) of three public hospitals in West Sumatra, Indonesia were randomly assigned into either the experimental group (n=28) or control group (n=28) by matching technique based on gender, age, and duration using ventilator. Those in the experimental group received nursing comfort care integrating with the Holy Qur'an recitation while those in the control group received usual care. Comfort assessed by using Comfort Questionnaire for Mechanically Ventilated Patients (CQMVP), was measured at the first day before receiving the intervention as pretest data, and on the second day after the intervention was completed as the posttest data. Three experts assessed and validated the content of CQMVP. The validity test showed that the scale content validity index (S-CVI) of the CQMVP was .92. The reliability of the CQMVP was tested in twenty participants who met inclusion criteria and its reliability of the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was .81. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Result of the study showed that there was a significant difference in the mean of comfort scores after receiving the intervention between the participants in the experimental group and the participants in the control group (t=6.70, p<.05). Moreover, the mean of comfort score after receiving the intervention in the experimental group showed increased significantly from before receiving the intervention (r= 12.38, p < .05). These findings revealed that nursing comfort care integrating with the Holy Qur'an recitation was effective in promoting comfort in Muslim patients while receiving mechanical ventilation. Thus, this nursing program can be recommended to use in nursing practice.