An Investigation on Barriers Existing in Prayer (Salat) Performance for Patients in the Perspective of Inpatients of " HazratAli

prayer gives equip people with a power for dealing with diseases.Thus, the goal of this research is to investigate barriers existing in prayer performance for patients in the view of inpatients of “Hazrate Ali ibn AbiTalib” Hospital of Rafsanjan.
This work is a qualitative cross sectional research conducted on 284 inpatients interior, surgical, and CCU sections. To gather required information, a three part (present conditions for prayer performance, barriers for prayer performance, and obstacles of prayer performance) questionnaire designed by the researcher was used. The obtained data were analyzed using the SPSS18 software via the statistical tests of correlation coefficients including Pearson and T, where the results were found to be significant (p Based on the findings of this study, among the barriers of prayer performance the maximum correlation is between the movement barriers and lack of prayer performance (R = 0.583). Here, the minimum correlation is between facility barriers and barriers related to illness (r = 0.244). Moreover, the results of Pearson correlation test revealed a high correlation among the barriers with each other and with the total score of the barriers.
training the patients about the prayer performance during the illness and paying attention to resolving the prayer performance barriers during the new hospital establishment would be useful herein.