The Relationship Between Spirituality and Hopelessness Among Cancer Patients in Turkey

Tasan, Nazan; Sarıtaş, Seyhan Çıtlık

doi:10.1007/s10943-021-01470-9

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“…Finally, it was revealed that the scores obtained by the participants from the spiritual well-being differed according to marital status, educational level, and monthly income level, and the spiritual well-being of individuals who were married, individuals with high education levels, and individuals with higher monthly incomes was at higher levels. In their study, Tasan and Citlik Saritas (2022) found that participants who were married and whose incomes were equal to their expenses exhibited a higher spiritual tendency. In their study on elderly individuals, So Nam and Sang Bok (2013) revealed that individuals with good economic status had higher levels of spiritual well-being.…”

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Examination of Pandemic Awareness, Death Anxiety, and Spiritual Well-Being in Elderly Individuals

2022

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This study aimed to examine the relationships between the variables of pandemic awareness, death anxiety, and spiritual well-being and reveal whether the participants’ perceptions of pandemic awareness, death anxiety, and spiritual well-being differed according to various sociodemographic characteristics. The study population is comprised of individuals aged 65 years and over in Edirne, Turkey. The data obtained from 449 people in the study were analyzed using various statistical methods. According to the results of the regression analysis performed in the study, the increase in the participants’ pandemic awareness was found to reduce their death anxiety and increase their spiritual well-being statistically. Moreover, the increase in the participants’ death anxiety statistically reduced their spiritual well-being.

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Examination of Pandemic Awareness, Death Anxiety, and Spiritual Well-Being in Elderly Individuals

2022

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“…With higher spiritual beliefs, in turn, more pronounced coping resources emerge for patients. At the same time, there are opposite findings stating that spirituality is lower than expected among people with lower incomes [45].…”

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“…Our results demonstrate a correlation between faith and education. Pahlevan Sharif and Ong [51] as well as Tasan and Citlik Saritas [45] argue that a higher level of education is associated with a decline in spirituality. People with a higher education are more interested in rational explanations and rely less on abstract explanations from spirituality and religion.…”

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Spirituality in Oncology: Relations between Spirituality, Its Facets, and Psychological and Demographic Factors in Cancer Patients in Germany

Heuschkel,

Fischer von Weikersthal,

Junghans

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Oncol Res Treat

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Introduction: Cancer diagnoses are constantly increasing in clinical practice. Therefore, more and more patients are interested in how they can actively participate in the process of treatment. Spirituality represents a hidden issue of the population, which counts as a branch of complementary and alternative treatment. Therefore, the aim of our study is to investigate whether there are associations between spirituality and demographic and psychosocial factors, as well as religious beliefs, in cancer patients. Methods: We conducted a survey with 451 participants in 10 oncology centers between March and July 2021. A composition of the following 9 different questionnaires was used to collect data on spirituality, demographics, resilience, self-efficiency, life satisfaction, and sense of coherence: Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp12), General Life Satisfaction Short Scale (L-1), Resilienzskala Kurzform (RS-13), Sense of Coherence Scale - Leipziger Kurzform (SOC-L9), Allgemeine Selbstwirksamkeit Kurzskala (AKSU), Adolescent Food Habits Checklist, Likert-Scale of daily activities, questionnaire of the Working group Prävention und Integrative Onkologie (PriO) and Personal opinion on the cause of the disease. Calculated data and analyzed group differences using ANOVA Bonferroni were used to test associations between spirituality and the variables studied. For more detailed examination of spirituality, we took a closer look at the different components of spirituality – peace, meaning and faith – and their relation to each other (three-factor spirituality analyses). Results: Higher spirituality scores in total as well as meaning, peace, and faith were each associated with higher levels of resilience and life satisfaction. Higher religious belief was found to be associated with higher spiritual attitudes. High personal self-efficiency was found in people with higher spiritual beliefs in general as well as higher meaning and peace. Meaning and peace emerge as essential components of spiritual well-being and show a stronger association with expressions of general spirituality than faith. Conclusion: Spirituality takes a crucial role among the resources of life-threatening diseases. As such, further research is needed to expand and integrate patient options into a modernized concept of care. Our data indicate that higher spiritual well-being is associated with a more tolerant approach to illness. Thus, addressing spiritual needs in therapy is associated with better psychological adjustment to the individual situation and reduces negative distress. To promote spiritual needs in the future, cognitive as well as affective components of spirituality should be emphasized.

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“…The heightened importance of spirituality results from patients' attempts to redefine the meaning of life, which alters after the diagnosis (Ferrel et al, 2003). Numerous studies have shown that cancer patients demonstrate high levels of spirituality (Al-Natour et al, 2017;Gudenkauf et al, 2019;Tasan and Citlik Saritas, 2022). They focus on it at every stage of the disease -from diagnosis to the end-of-life stage or remission (Mercier et al, 2023).…”

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Spirituality in cancer

Paleczna

2023

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The aim of this article is to provide a detailed characterization of the spirituality in cancer patients. The great importance of this area, both for theoreticians and practitioners, results from patients' search for meaning in the experience of illness and the need to cope with it on various levels (including emotional). At the very beginning, the complexity of the described phenomenon was signaled and two components of spirituality in the context of the disease were presented: cognitive and emotional. Then, terminological inaccuracies related to the definition of spirituality and religiosity faced not only by researchers, but also by patients themselves were discussed. Next, research on the correlates of spirituality in cancer patients was reviewed. The results of many studies on its relationship with the mental health of patients were presented. Potential mechanisms of the positive impact of spirituality on this sphere, discussed in the scientific literature, were presented: self-regulation, giving new meaning to experiences and religious coping. The relationship between spirituality and the demoralization syndrome and the regulation of desired and undesirable emotions is discussed. Threats related to spirituality and mental health were also indicated. The purpose of this article was also to discuss the relationship between spirituality and physical health, which is much less frequently analyzed by researchers. The results in this area are ambiguous. Research on spirituality and quality of life of cancer patients was also reviewed. Both results indicating a positive relationship between spirituality and quality of life, as well as those proving a different outcome, were presented. Attention was paid to the importance of this relationship in patients at the end of life who often experience spiritual pain. Then, barriers related to raising spiritual issues in the patient-medical staff dyad were identified. The article also addresses the complex issue of spirituality in relation to cancer survivors. Finally, the results of research on the importance of spirituality among informal caregivers of cancer patients are presented. As in the case of patients, positive and negative aspects in this area were indicated.

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The Relationship Between Spirituality and Hopelessness Among Cancer Patients in Turkey

Cited by 10 publications

References 42 publications

Examination of Pandemic Awareness, Death Anxiety, and Spiritual Well-Being in Elderly Individuals

Examination of Pandemic Awareness, Death Anxiety, and Spiritual Well-Being in Elderly Individuals

Spirituality in Oncology: Relations between Spirituality, Its Facets, and Psychological and Demographic Factors in Cancer Patients in Germany

Spirituality in cancer

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