Spirituality, Religiosity and Coping Strategies Among Spanish People Diagnosed with Cancer

Arbinaga, Félix; Sierra, María Isabel Mendoza; Gómez-Millán, María Rocío Bohórquez; Verjano-Cuellar, M I; Torres-Rosado, Lidia; Romero-Pérez, Nehemías

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“…Similarly, the influence of spirituality/ religiosity on the different coping strategies has been appraised in patients with cancer. Spirituality has been revealed to be predictive of active coping [37]. Moreover, greater coping strategies have been associated with greater spiritual well-being, which entailed less negative, religious (maladaptive) coping and less psychological distress [38].…”

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Assessment of psychological distress, coping, and spirituality in patients with resected, non-metastatic vs unresectable advanced cancer. Data from the NEOcoping and NEOetic_SEOM studies

Velasco-Durantez

Cruz-Castellanos

Hernández

et al. 2022

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BackgroundCancer negatively affects patients’ physical and mental health. This work sought to analyze the sociodemographic and clinical variables that modulate psychological distress in individuals with resected vs unresectable cancer before and after receiving systemic antineoplastic treatment, and to evaluate how different coping strategies and spiritual well-being influence psychological distress in these subjects.MethodsObservational, prospective, consecutive study performed in 15 hospitals in Spain. The study consists of two cohorts: patients with resected locally and locally advanced cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy (NEOcoping study, 2016 and 2018) and those with unresectable locally advanced and advanced cancer, eligible for systemic treatment (NEOetic study, 2020 and 2021). Participants completed the following scales: BSI-18 (psychological distress) at baseline and after antineoplastic treatment; MINI-MAC (coping), and FACIT-sp (spirituality), before initiating systemic treatment.ResultsFourteen hundred and fifty patients were recruited; 941 had resected cancer and 509 had advanced cancer. The advanced cancer sample included more males, older, less educated, and more unemployed individuals. Before starting systemic treatment, the advanced, unresectable disease group suffered more psychological distress than those with resected cancer (66.9 vs. 63.7, p=0.001) and used more coping strategies, especially positive attitude (79.1 vs. 75.6, p=0.001) and cognitive avoidance (64.3 vs. 53.6, p=0.001). Participants with resected cancer displayed greater spiritual well-being (36.5 vs 33.2, p=0.001). After receiving systemic treatment, psychological distress decreased in cases of advanced cancer and increased in resected cancer, albeit still higher in subjects with advanced cancer, particularly anxiety (61.4 vs 60.9) and depression (61.0 vs 60.6), (p=0.001 in both cases).ConclusionPatients with advanced cancer exhibit greater psychological distress, use more coping strategies, and have less spiritual well-being, but their psychological distress improves with antineoplastic treatment.

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Assessment of psychological distress, coping, and spirituality in patients with resected, non-metastatic vs unresectable advanced cancer. Data from the NEOcoping and NEOetic_SEOM studies

Velasco-Durantez

Cruz-Castellanos

Hernández

et al. 2022

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“…Este público tende a usar a espiritualidade como estratégia de enfrentamento da doença, sendo importante a equipe abordar esta dimensão durante o cuidado em saúde. 14 Outra pesquisa com o objetivo de identificar as principais estratégias de enfrentamento entre pacientes oncológicos em cuidados paliativos aponta que eles utilizam principalmente estratégias como enfrentamento familiar, adaptação e enfrentamento religioso. Neste estudo, a religiosidade/espiritualidade e a rede social de apoio foram as principais estratégias de enfrentamento apresentadas por estes pacientes.…”

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Impactos da inclusão da espiritualidade durante quimioterapia para o enfrentamento do câncer: ensaio clínico randomizado

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Objetivo: Avaliar o enfrentamento do câncer após a inclusão da espiritualidade do paciente no tratamento quimioterápico. Método: ensaio clínico randomizado, realizado com 30 pacientes portadores de câncer em tratamento quimioterápico em uma Unidade de Assistência de Alta Complexidade em Oncologia. A intervenção que incluiu a dimensão espiritual do paciente durante o cuidado foi o Relaxamento, Imagens Mentais e Espiritualidade, e para avaliar o enfrentamento foi utilizada a Escala de Modos de Enfrentamento de Problemas. Pesquisa cadastrada no Registro Brasileiro de Ensaios Clínicos sob o número RBR-9qpmcfr. Resultados: a estratégia de enfrentamento mais utilizada pelos participantes da intervenção foi a prática religiosa/pensamento fantasioso, antes e depois da intervenção, e para o grupo controle a principal estratégia foi focalizada no problema no início da coleta e prática religiosa/pensamento fantasioso e no problema, no segundo momento da pesquisa. Apesar disso, não foram observadas diferenças estatísticas no modo de enfrentamento entre os grupos estudados. Conclusão: apesar de não serem identificadas diferenças no enfrentamento do câncer após a inclusão da espiritualidade no tratamento quimioterápico, observa-se que as principais maneiras que o paciente utiliza para enfrentar o diagnóstico e tratamento do câncer envolvem questões relacionadas à espiritualidade. Assim, é importante considerar esta dimensão durante o plano terapêutico. Palavras-Chave: Espiritualidade; Religião; Ensaio Clínico; Adaptação Psicológica; Neoplasias.

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“…Being a source of hope, religion allows one to look at difficulties from a different perspective, which is an opportunity to positively reevaluate difficulties and to better cope with them (Piskozub 2010;Juczy ński 2016). From this function of religion, there stems the concept of religious coping (Pargament et al 2000(Pargament et al , 2011Cummings and Pargament 2010;Arbinaga et al 2021). Moreover, religion provides a sense of security, and thus forms a basis for the proper construction of the personality and a sense of self-dignity, if, of course, the relationship with God is based on trust and the individual presents a positive image of Him (Piskozub 2010;Chlewi ński 1982;Kirkpatrick 1992;Kulesz 2013;Matys and Bartczuk 2011;Renz et al 2018;.…”

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Coping and Religiosity of Polish Breast Cancer Patients

Żołnierz

Sak

2023

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Religiosity can support a patient in coping with a stressful situation such as breast cancer. In this study, the authors aimed to explain the relationships between the religiosity of the respondents and the religious crises they experienced and coping strategies, as well as between coping strategies and the disease duration. The research method used is the method of diagnostic survey, and the tools: a questionnaire of our own, making it possible to determine sociodemographic variables and standardized scales: the Inventory for Measuring Coping with Stress—Mini-COPE (the brief COPE), the Polish Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) and the Religious Crisis Scale by W. Prężyna (RCS). With approval from the Bioethics Committee at the Medical University of Lublin (KE-0254/133/2015), 69 female subjects with breast cancer were studied. The results showed statistically significant positive correlations between the centrality of religiosity and selected components of religiosity and action-oriented coping strategies. RCS scores correlate negatively with more adaptive coping strategies and positively with ineffective ones. Additionally, patients suffering from breast cancer for more than five years, are statistically significantly different from those with shorter disease duration only in their scores for the CRS “public practice” subscale. Mature religiosity promotes the adoption of constructive coping strategies, while religious crisis hinders the process of coping with stressful situations. It appears necessary to integrate spiritual care into the treatment process of cancer patients.

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Spirituality, Religiosity and Coping Strategies Among Spanish People Diagnosed with Cancer

Cited by 6 publications

References 61 publications

Assessment of psychological distress, coping, and spirituality in patients with resected, non-metastatic vs unresectable advanced cancer. Data from the NEOcoping and NEOetic_SEOM studies

Assessment of psychological distress, coping, and spirituality in patients with resected, non-metastatic vs unresectable advanced cancer. Data from the NEOcoping and NEOetic_SEOM studies

Impactos da inclusão da espiritualidade durante quimioterapia para o enfrentamento do câncer: ensaio clínico randomizado

Coping and Religiosity of Polish Breast Cancer Patients

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