Religiosidade/espiritualidade em pacientes oncológicos: qualidade de vida e saúde

Abstract

RESUMO -O estudo investigou o enfrentamento religioso em 10 pacientes oncológicos de uma instituição especializada, com idades entre 25 e 55 anos. A coleta de dados deu-se por meio de entrevistas. Os resultados foram analisados considerando o conteúdo do relato verbal das participantes, assim descritos: (1) categorias de conteúdo do relato verbal (suporte emocional, cura, busca de significado, contribuições no tratamento e controle); e (2) características de religiosidade/espiritualidade. Todas as participantes apresentaram relatos verbais com conteúdos de religiosidade/espiritualidade, o que evidencia que a relação entre a doença e a possibilidade de morte fazem do enfrentamento religioso uma estratégia de redução do estresse e melhoria da qualidade de vida das participantes.Palavras-chave: câncer; religiosidade/espiritualidade; qualidade de vida. Religiousness/Spirituality in Oncological Patientes:Life Quality and Health ABSTRACT -The study investigated the religious coping in 10 cancer patients of a specialized institution, aged between 25 and 55 years old. The data were collected through interviews. The results were analyzed considering the content of the patients' verbal report, described as: (1) categories of verbal report's content (emotional support, healing, searching of meaning, contributions for treatment, and control); and (2) characteristics of religiousness/spirituality. All participants presented verbal reports with contents of religiousness/spirituality, which suggests that due to the relation between the disease and the possibility of death, religious coping became a strategy of stress reduction and quality of life improvement for those patients.

Effectiveness of prayer in reducing anxiety in cancer patients

“…Carrying out spiritual care is a challenge and requires that spirituality be included in professional training and that investments be made in research in order to solidify knowledge of the phenomenon. Religiosity/spirituality can be considered a coping strategy for patients diagnosed with cancer, whose treatment is permeated by stressful events, given the impact that the illness has on the person's life (7) .…”

Sentimentos de mulheres sobre as alterações causadas pela mastectomia Women´s feelings about the changes caused by mastectomy

“…The spiritual characteristics were present in the speeches of the interviewees, promoting the idea that a higher being exists and is responsible for controlling the situation. 20 In another survey conducted in Pelotas/RS with 264 adult survivors of cancer, it is apparent that the women accepted a mastectomy as a work of God, despite the consequences, and that faith was important to tackle the disease and recover more easily from the same by attributing to the divine power their healing and relief of suffering. 21 Converging then with the presented speech quoting the woman believes it was already healed, but not only by man but by an entity, for faith having and the strength getting from that thought help in overcoming cancer.…”

Systemic Arterial Hypertension: Social Representations of Patients Attended at Primary Care About the Disease and Its Treatment

“…Various strategies for coping are used in order to face the new condition, such as spirituality which may or may not be linked to religiousness 24 . Spiritual support is found in the scope of social networks, being of great importance to the individuals, finding comfort and support to face the treatment.…”