The Clinical Investigation on The Effective Application of Prayer and Faith Builder in Altering The Hither-To Situation of Some Non-Diagnostic Apa Illness

Abstract

The study established the therapeutic relevant of prayers and faithbuilders in ameliorating disturbed condition among 32 inmates in two Nursing homes. A randonmised 2x2 factorial design was adopted through the oneway Analysis of Covariance and the t-test statistical procedures at the alpha level of 0.05. The. findings which has the critical values
(df = 3/60 = 26.2; P 0.05) and (df = 3/28 = 12.63; P 0.05) for both the first and second null hypotheses were statistically significant. The findings indicated that prayers/faith builders are more effective than the control group in the improvement of disturbed conditions.
It further revealed that the female subjects showed better improvement rate than the male subjects.

Nigerian Journal of Guidance and Counselling Vol. 6 (1&2) 1998: pp. 221-232