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  • Spirituality and Medicine
  • Psychology of Religion

Background:

  • Belief in prayer's healing power is widespread across religions.
  • Spiritually grounded interventions like intercessory prayer (IP) require broader understanding.
  • Previous research on IP has yielded controversial and inconsistent findings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and analyze intercessory prayer (IP) trials.
  • To examine the relationship between inconsistent results and methodological criticisms of IP studies.
  • To identify challenges and propose future research directions for IP.

Main Methods:

  • Literature survey of publications indexed until September 2013.
  • Focus on IP trials and critical analyses of their methodological design.
  • Inclusion of recent meta-analyses and multicenter studies.

Main Results:

  • Recent meta-analyses and multicenter studies on IP show inconclusive results.
  • IP clinical trials face methodological difficulties: uncontrolled intervention, undefined outcomes, and inconsistent theoretical models.
  • The "non-local consciousness" model is suggested as potentially appropriate for IP studies.

Conclusions:

  • Methodological limitations hinder definitive conclusions on IP effectiveness.
  • Future research should consider animal models, subject/healer connections, and non-local consciousness hypotheses.
  • Further investigation is needed to understand the efficacy and mechanisms of intercessory prayer.