Abstract:

This systematic review was made in order to examine postgraduate nursing theses containing pain-related reiki practices in Türkiye. In order to collect data for the research, firstly, the literature was scanned, then the National Thesis Center Database of the Council of Higher Education was scanned with the keywords "pain" and "reiki". At the end of the screening, 8 theses related to the subject were determined in the Department of Nursing of the Institute of Health Sciences between the years 2000-2022. All of the theses examined in the study met the inclusion criteria. All thesis are at the doctorate level and data were collected by forming control and experimental groups. It was determined that the first thesis examining the effect of reiki on pain was published in 2012, the second study examining the effect of reiki on the pain of the elderly living in nursing homes was published in 2013, and the other 6 theses were made in the last five years. When the studies are examined it was seen that most of the studies (37.5%) were conducted to evaluate the effect of reiki on postoperative pain, and most of the studies on reiki in Türkiye were in nursing studies. When the results of all the theses (n=8) with experimental research design examined in our study were evaluated holistically, it was shown that the experimental quality of the theses provided a high level of evidence and that reiki was an effective method in reducing pain.

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