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01-02-2019 | Original Paper

Self-Care in Iranian Cancer Patients: The Role of Religious Coping

Authors: Amir Hossein Goudarzian, Christopher Boyle, Sima Beik, Azar Jafari, Masoumeh Bagheri Nesami, Mozhgan Taebi, Fatemeh Zamani

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 1/2019

Abstract

Religious and spiritual practices are related to physical and mental health. Social support is an important source to aid coping, but this is not without its difficulties. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between religious coping and self-care in a sample of Iranian cancer patients. In this cross-sectional study (October–December, 2015), 380 cancer patients were entered into the study using non random sampling (accessible sampling). Data were collected using socio-demographic, religious coping (R-COPE), and self-care questionnaires. Male patients (48.39 ± 13.39; 95% CI 46.41–50.38) were older than the females patients (45.33 ± 18.44; 95% CI 42.79–47.87). The findings indicated that there was a significant correlation between self-care and positive religious coping (r = .188, p = .009). Also there was a significant relationship between self-care and a history of smoking (p < .05). It seems that improving the level of positive religious affiliation can have beneficial effect on the self-care of cancer patients. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct these studies with greater scale and more different societies to achieve more reliable results about the effects of religious coping on self-care behaviors in cancer patients.

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Title: Self-Care in Iranian Cancer Patients: The Role of Religious Coping
Authors: Amir Hossein Goudarzian
Christopher Boyle
Sima Beik
Azar Jafari
Masoumeh Bagheri Nesami
Mozhgan Taebi
Fatemeh Zamani
Publication date: 01-02-2019
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-0647-6

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