Illness does not alleviate the obligation of Muslim patients to perform religious duties such as
prayer. The need for a systematic evaluation of patients’ ability to perform such duties needs to be
highlighted and anticipated. Thus, a research was designed to develop a standard, objective
evaluation scoring system to recognize disability levels of Muslim trauma patients in performing
religious physical cleansing and prayer during their illness and improve the deliverance of
assistance they need. This research involves five stages. 1-Identifying common and specific
problems faced by trauma patients, 2-Constructing a disability score based on data obtained, 3-
Incorporating Islamic rulings and pilot testing, 4-Validation and reliability testing, and 5-Patient
categorization and development of a in-patient coding system. Trauma patients of general
orthopaedic wards of a local institution were recruited for this research. In the initial phase of this
research, we had identified problems contributing towards patients’ ability to perform religious
practices during hospital admission. These can be grouped into four main factors; the patient, the
staff delivering the assistance, hospital policies and availability of facilities. Subsequent phases of
this research will focus more on the first and second factors. Three major outcomes are expected at
the end of this research. A disability score to categorize trauma patients according to their needs, a
manual based on Islamic rulings and convenience related to common and specific disabilities, and a
coding system to assist physicians and hospital staff in scrutinizing the types of assistance required
by patients. This will be the first scoring system that is constructed based on both patients’ and
physicians’ perspectives of difficulties in performing religious duties. It will provide a balance
approach in trauma patients’ care and deliverance of assistance wherever required. The proposed
scoring system has potential of becoming a standard of practice in a more holistic patient care in
accordance to the much-anticipated ibadah-friendly hospital
