National Trends in Prayer Use as a Coping Mechanism for Depression: Changes from 2002 to 2007

Wachholtz, Amy; Sambamthoori, Usha

doi:10.1007/s10943-012-9649-y

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“…This explained why they all depended on God to relieve them of the trauma they were going through. This is also in accordance with the study by Wachholtz, Sambamthoori and Morgantown (2013), which found that dependence on prayer by individuals who are facing a stressful event increased from the year 2002 and 2007.…”

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confidence: 92%

Coping strategies of mothers with preterm babies admitted in a public hospital in Cape Town

2019

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BackgroundMost pregnancies run a normal course, ending in a healthy mother–infant relationship, but sometimes, it can also be a life-threatening and stressful condition. The stress levels of mothers are more aggravated when they deliver preterm babies.ObjectivesTo explore the coping strategies of mothers of preterm babies with the stress of preterm delivery and subsequent admission of the preterm neonate to a neonatal care unit.MethodA qualitative research approach applying an exploratory and descriptive design was applied to explore the coping strategies of mothers with preterm babies admitted in a neonatal care unit. The study applied a purposive sampling technique to select mothers with preterm babies. The population for this study included women who delivered preterm babies and whose babies were admitted in the neonatal care unit at a public hospital in Cape Town. Semi-structured interviews were conducted until data saturation was reached, and 11 mothers with preterm babies in the selected public hospital participated in the study. Data were analysed manually using thematic content analysis with an inductive approach.ResultsResults were deductively interpreted and supported by the Brief COPE model. The main themes that emerged from data analysis included praying, attachment with baby and acceptance of the situation. Under praying the following subthemes emerged, namely praying for God’s strength, God’s grace, babies’ survival and thanksgiving to God for babies’ health and preferred gender. The theme of attachment with the baby emerged with the following subthemes: bonding with the baby and seeing the baby. The last theme that was acceptance of the situation emerged with the following subtheme: perseverance in the situation and mother’s awareness of her responsibility.ConclusionEven though the mothers of preterm babies cope differently after delivery, their coping abilities, which included praying, attachment to baby and acceptance of the situation, were greatly determined by the condition of their babies as well as the support they receive from significant others.

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confidence: 92%

Coping strategies of mothers with preterm babies admitted in a public hospital in Cape Town

2019

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“…Similar studies have indicated the significant influence of prayer on depression (J. W. Anderson & Nunnelley, 2016; Wachholtz & Sambamthoori, 2012). Our finding also supports a larger body of research that delineates the protective influence of broader constructs of religiosity on depressive symptoms among Black youth (Cullins et al, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 62%

Nonorganizational Religious Involvement and Psychosocial Well-Being Among African American and Caribbean Black Youth

Rose

Hope

Thurman

et al. 2020

Journal of Black Psychology

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Often cited as a developmental and cultural resource, religion has been widely studied. However, fewer studies have explored the relationship between nonorganizational religious involvement (NRI) and psychosocial well-being among Black youth or within ethnic groups of Black youth. This study examined this relationship among 1,170 African American and Caribbean Black youth who participated in the National Survey of American Life–Adolescent Supplement study. Moderated hierarchical regression results showed significant main effects of NRI on life satisfaction, self-esteem, coping, and depressive symptoms after accounting for study covariates (i.e., age, gender, family income, denomination, ethnicity, religious service attendance, and religious socialization). No significant interaction effects were observed between NRI and ethnicity on any of the psychosocial well-being outcomes. Results illuminate a promotive effect of NRI in this sample. Though no significant ethnicity and religiosity interaction effects were observed, findings suggest the importance of NRI as a key intervention target to support better psychosocial well-being among Black youth, in an effort to promote overall youth development.

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“…It was surprising that NORA had no impact on index symptom severity since the benefits of such private activities as prayer have been identified in other studies, specifically on severity of depression [43,44] and on coping with depression [45]. The reasons for this discrepancy are unclear but may be due to methodological issues since Wachholtz [45] and Ronneberg [44] were both ecological and so had larger samples than this study. However, they used ecological and not clinically derived data, potentially leading to different findings.…”

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confidence: 77%

The Role of Religion in Buffering the Impact of Stressful Life Events on Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Depressive Episodes or Adjustment Disorder

Lorenz

Doherty

Casey

2019

IJERPH

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Most studies into the role of religiousness in relation to depression severity have mainly found an inverse relationship between greater religiousness and lower levels of depressive symptoms. There is reason to assume that religiousness has a buffering effect on the relationship between stressful life events and depressive symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of religiousness in moderating the impact of stressors on depressive symptoms. n = 348 patients with either a depressive episode or adjustment disorder were assessed at referral to the liaison psychiatry services in three Dublin hospitals and n = 132 patients were followed up six months later. We assessed depressive symptoms, life events, social support, and religiosity, and used hierarchical and multiple linear regression for data analysis. The interaction of organised religious activity and the amount of life events was significant (β = −0.19, p = 0.001) in the cross-sectional prediction of depressive symptoms while non-organised religious activity (β = −0.23, p = 0.001) and intrinsic religiousness (β = −0.15, p = 0.033) interacted significantly with life events in the longitudinal analysis. This study demonstrated that various dimensions of religiousness buffered the impact of life events on outcome.

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National Trends in Prayer Use as a Coping Mechanism for Depression: Changes from 2002 to 2007

Cited by 25 publications

References 26 publications

Coping strategies of mothers with preterm babies admitted in a public hospital in Cape Town

Coping strategies of mothers with preterm babies admitted in a public hospital in Cape Town

Nonorganizational Religious Involvement and Psychosocial Well-Being Among African American and Caribbean Black Youth

The Role of Religion in Buffering the Impact of Stressful Life Events on Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Depressive Episodes or Adjustment Disorder

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