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.

Background: The present study aims at investigating the relationship between religious coping behaviors and depression in Iranian patients with cancer. Methods: In this cross sectional study (October to December, 2015), 380 patients with cancer, admitted to the associated university's medical sciences hospitals (Sari, Iran), were entered to the present study, using non-random sampling (accessible sampling). Data were collected by demographic questionnaire, center for epidemiological studies depression scale (CES-D), and religious coping questionnaire (RCOPE). The statistical package for social sciences, version 20.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) was used for data analysis by descriptive and infernal statistic tests (Spearman's correlation and generalized linear models).

Pain of cancer had various significant side effects that based on the literature it can reduced by religious coping methods. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between religious coping and pain perception in Iranian cancer patients. In this cross-sectional study (October-December, 2015), 380 hospitalized cancer patients were entered to the study using accessible sampling. Data were collected by socio-demographic, Religious Coping and McGill pain questionnaires. Males (48.39 ± 13 ± 39; CI95: 46.41-50.38) are older than females (45.33 ± 18.44; CI95: 42.79-47.87). According to results, there was a significant relationship between pain perception and positive religious coping in cancer patients. Also there was a significant relationship between pain perception and family history of cancer (P < 0.05). It seems that improving the level and quality of positive religious affiliation can be effective on the amount of stimulation and pain of cancer patients. Of course, more comprehensive studies are needed to be achieved more reliable results about the effects of religious coping on pain perception in these patients.

Background and Objectives: Depression is one of the most psychological outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infraction, which can affect the sleep quality in these patients. Given that adequate sleep has important effect on heart function, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the correlation between sleep quality with death and cardiac depression in patient with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study, 407 patients with acute myocardial infarction, who were admitted to the CCU wards of the Fatemeh Zahra Educational Center of Sari city, were selected using simple random sampling method. Data were collected by Cardiac Depression Scale (CDS), Death Depression Scale (DDS), and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaires. Data were analyzed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Pearson correlation tests. Results: The mean age of the male patients (64.95±17.00; CI95: 62.71-67.19) was more than the mean age of women (62.22±15.48; CI95: 59.96-64.48). The mean score of death depression (68.94±17.24; CI95: 67.26-70.62) and cardiac depression (109.00±16.49; CI95: 107.39-110.60), were below the fifth percentile. Multivariate regression analysis showed that change in cardiac depression score (B=0.036, β=0.153), increasing education levels (B=1.55, β=-0.121), and no history of antidepressant usage (B=4.32, β=0.123), can be significantly independent predictive factors of the variance of sleep quality score in acute myocardial infarction patients. Conclusion: According to the results of this study, although cardiac depression, education level, and non-use of antidepressant drugs are considered as affecting factors in the prediction of sleep quality in acute myocardial infarction patients, sleep quality is affected by more factors. Therefore, further studies are needed in this area.

Background: The present study was conducted aimed to determine the relationship between body shape and sleep quality in patients with congestive heart failure.Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-correlation study which was conducted in 2015, 290 patients with congestive heart failure were recruited using the simple random sampling method. Data were collected through the demographic information form (including age, sex, marital status, economic level and education), medical (age, sex, adequacy of economic level, education, history of hypertension and drug use, family history of heart disease and depression in the family, activity and history of special disease), Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ-34) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). SPSS 20.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) were utilized for data analysis with descriptive and inferential statistics tests (Generalized Linear models with bonferroni correction).Results: Based on results only 48 patients with 4.31 (SD: 0.94; 95%CI: 4.03-4.58) mean score of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index  had a good levels of sleep quality. The mean score of the Body Shape Questionnaire of patients were 122.47 (SD: 19.157; 95%CI: 12.25-124.68).Conclusion: According to the present study, the sleep quality and body shape of the patients with CHF from their body were weak. It is therefore necessary to do something in order to remove the backgrounds of sleep disorders in these patients as well as the need to more detailed investigation to determine the exact relationship of these two variables.