This study will be conducted in order to examine the effect of prayer to individuals with COPD on the severity of dyspnea, anxiety and spiritual well-being experienced by patients.

This study will be conducted on people with COPD. People with COPD disease will be divided into two groups. The experimental group will be given a prayer lesson for a month. Prayer listening will not be performed to the control group. At the end of one month, the severity of dyspnea, anxiety and spiritual well-being levels of people in both groups will be re-evaluated.

Inclusion Criteria:

• 90 individuals (45 experiments, 45 controls) who can be contacted, who have agreed to participate in the study
• who are literate, can speak Turkish
• who have not participated in a similar application of this study before
• who have agreed to participate in the study after being informed about the research
• are 18 years old and over, with a COPD diagnosis will be taken

Exclusion Criteria:

• Individuals with mental and hearing problems, who have lost a family member and someone close to them in the last year
• who are using tranquilizers/antidepressants
• who have experienced a traumatic situation such as divorce will be excluded from the sample.

It is not intended to share the data of individual participants.

The experimental and control groups will be determined by randomization method by a person other than the researcher. Participants will not know which group they are in.