Do Religious / Spiritual Coping Strategies Affect Illness Adjustment in Patients with Cancer ? A Systematic Review of the Literature  

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Thune-Boyle, Ingela C. ; Stygall, Jan A. ; Keshtgar, Mohammed R. ; Newman, Stanton P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 63 no. 1 (Jul. 2006), page 151-164.
Topik: RELIGIOUS; religious coping; cancer; illness adjustment; distress; systematic review

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The present paper systematicaly reviews studies examining the potential beneficial or harmful effects of religious / spiritual coping with cancer. Using religion and spirituality as resources in coping may be specifically prevalent in patients with cancer considering the potentially life threatening nature of the illness. Religious / spiritual coping may also serve multiple functions in long term adjustment to cancer such as maintaining self esteem, providing a sense of meaning and purpose, giving emotional comfort and providing a sense of hope. Seventeen appears met the inclusion criteria of which seven found some evidence for the beneficial effect of religious coping, but one of these also sound religious coping to be deterimental in a sub sample of their population. A further three studies found religious coping to be harmful and seven found non significant results. However many studies suffered from serious methodological problems, especially in the manner in which religious coping was conceptualised and measured. The studies also failed to control for possible influential variables such as stage of illness an perceived social support. Due to this, any firm conclusions about the possible beneficial or harmful effects of religious coping with cancer is lacking. These problems are discussed and suggestions for future studies are made.

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