Complementary Spiritist Therapy: Systematic Review of Scientific Evidence

Table 1

Data abstraction.

Keywords used (only articles with these words in the title were included)	Articles found	Excluded in Phase 1	Phase 2	Excluded in Phase 2	Phase 3	Excluded in Phase 3	Articles included for the final analysis
Prayer
Prayer	428	384	44	33	11	5	6
Pray	39	38	1	1	0	0	0
Religious Meditation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Laying on of hands
Laying on of hands	18	17	1	0	1	1	0
Imposition of hands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Therapeutic touch	261	220	41	12	29	18	11
Reiki	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Johrei	9	1	8	3	5	5	0
Fluidotherapy
Fluidic water	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Magnetized water	7	1	6	5	1	0	1
Magnetic water	9	7	2	1	1	0	1
Water Healing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Water Heal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Energized Water	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Charity
Volunteering	242	216	26	14	12	2	10
Helping others	41	40	1	1	0	0	0
Spirit education
Moral values	59	57	2	2	0	0	0
Anger proneness	5	3	2	0	2	0	2
Resilience and prospective	97	79	18	13	5	2	3
Positive Emotions	53	41	12	5	7	5	2
Positive affect	142	110	32	12	20	11	9
Emotional style	4	1	3	0	3	3	0
Goodness NOT, Goodness-of-fit	82	82	0	0	0	0	0
Benevolence	49	48	1	0	1	0	1
Humility	129	128	1	1	0	0	0
Virtues	215	214	1	1	0	0	0
Peacefulness	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kindness	125	119	6	0	6	2	4
Disobsession
Possession Trance	3	1	20	19	1	1	0
Spirit Release Therapy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spirit Possession	34	28	6	5	1	1	0
Spiritist Healers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spiritist Healing	2	0	2	1	1	1	0
Spiritual surgery	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spiritist	8	4	4	3	1	1	0
Spiritists	2	1	1	0	1	1	0
Total	1998	1752	246	138	109	59	50