Saeed Pahlevan Sharif1, Rebecca H Lehto2, Hamid Sharif Nia3, Amir Hossein Goudarzian4, Ali Akbar Haghdoost5, Ameneh Yaghoobzadeh6, Bahram Tahmasbi7, Roghieh Nazari7. 1. Taylor's Business School, Taylor's University Malaysia, Subang Jaya, Malaysia. 2. College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. 3. School of Nursing and Midwifery Amol, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. pegadis@yahoo.com. 4. Student Research Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. 5. Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. 6. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 7. School of Nursing and Midwifery Amol, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The study investigated relationships among the extent of disease, religious coping, and death depression in Iranian patients with cancer. METHOD: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenience sample of 482 Iranian cancer patients. Participants completed demographic and health, death depression, and religious coping surveys. RESULTS: After controlling for demographic and health characteristics, positive and negative religious coping behaviors were significantly related to the experience of death depression. There was an interaction effect between negative religious coping and extent of disease with significant positive relationships to the experience of death depression. CONCLUSIONS: Negative religious coping was found to be more closely associated with death depression in patients with earlier stage disease than those with advanced stages of cancer in this sample of patients with cancer from Iran. Findings support assessing patients for use of religious coping strategies. Muslim patients who are religiously alienated and have existential anguish may be vulnerable and need heightened support following diagnosis and during treatment of early stage cancer.
PURPOSE: The study investigated relationships among the extent of disease, religious coping, and death depression in Iranian patients with cancer. METHOD: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenience sample of 482 Iranian cancerpatients. Participants completed demographic and health, death depression, and religious coping surveys. RESULTS: After controlling for demographic and health characteristics, positive and negative religious coping behaviors were significantly related to the experience of death depression. There was an interaction effect between negative religious coping and extent of disease with significant positive relationships to the experience of death depression. CONCLUSIONS: Negative religious coping was found to be more closely associated with death depression in patients with earlier stage disease than those with advanced stages of cancer in this sample of patients with cancer from Iran. Findings support assessing patients for use of religious coping strategies. Muslim patients who are religiously alienated and have existential anguish may be vulnerable and need heightened support following diagnosis and during treatment of early stage cancer.
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Cancer; Culture; Death depression; Muslim; Religious coping
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