Religious/spiritual coping and adjustment in individuals with cancer: unanswered questions, important trends, and future directions

Lavery, Megan; O’Hea, Erin L.

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“…In this sample, the cancer experience itself or the associated psychological distress may have mobilized both positive and negative religious coping methods. This explanation is consistent with the significant positive relationship between positive and negative religious coping in this and previous studies (Lavery and O'Hea 2010;Pargament 1997). The causal relationship between religious coping and distress cannot be determined from this study.…”

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Religious Coping and Psychological Distress in Military Veteran Cancer Survivors

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Research on the relationship between religious coping and psychological well-being in cancer survivors is limited. Forty-eight veteran cancer survivors completed measures of psychological distress, posttraumatic growth, and positive and negative religious coping. Negative religious coping was associated with greater distress and growth. Positive religious coping was associated with greater growth. Gender, race, and religious affiliation were significant predictors of positive and negative religious coping. Veteran cancer survivors who utilize negative religious coping may benefit from referral to clergy or a mental health professional. Assessment of religious coping may be particularly important for female, non-White, and Christian cancer survivors.

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“…After a cancer diagnosis, many patients report that RS are important to their adjustment (Asgeirsdottir et al, 2013). Religious coping is one component of RS that has been studied in cancer patients (see Lavery & O’Hea, 2010; Thune-Boyle et al, 2006 for reviews). Approximately 66 % of cancer patients report using prayer to cope with their illness (Ross et al, 2008) and 84 % of advanced cancer patients report relying on their religious beliefs to cope (Vallurupalli et al, 2012).…”

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Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral medicine

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Recognizing and understanding the potentially powerful roles that religiousness and spirituality (RS) may serve in the prevention and amelioration of disease, as well as symptom management and health related quality of life, significantly enhances research and clinical efforts across many areas of behavioral medicine. This article examines the knowledge established to date and suggests advances that remain to be made. We begin with a brief summary of the current knowledge regarding RS as related to three exemplary health conditions: (a) cardiovascular disease; (b) cancer; and, (c) substance abuse. We then focus on particular concerns for future investigations, emphasizing conceptual issues, possible mediators and moderators of relationships or effects, and methodology. Our discussion is framed by a conceptual model that may serve to guide and organize future investigations. This model highlights a number of important issues regarding the study of links between RS and health: (a) RS comprise many diverse constructs, (b) the mechanisms through which RS may influence health outcomes are quite diverse, and (c) a range of different types of health and health relevant outcomes may be influenced by RS. The multidimensional nature of RS and the complexity of related associations with different types of health relevant outcomes present formidable challenges to empirical study in behavioral medicine. These issues are referred to throughout our review and we suggest several solutions to the presented challenges in our summary. We end with a presentation of barriers to be overcome, along with strategies for doing so, and concluding thoughts.

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“…While sub-scale-level analyses are more robust, findings were still very variable, with three studies [62][63][64] reporting that turning to religion formed a separate factor and five studies [21,[65][66][67][68] reporting lack of sufficiently high factor loadings for religious coping ( Table 2). The use of general or uni-dimensional religious coping measures to inform about the role of religion in coping with stress has been criticized [17,131], and in the Brief COPE [1], the scope that the religious coping sub-scale can assess is even further limited by the fact it was reduced to two items, compared to the four items in the COPE. As the development of Brief COPE [1] has not followed recommended guidelines for developing short forms [132], the unstable factor structure of the instrument is not surprising, and it is therefore also uncertain to what extent sub-scale level analyses may be appropriate without prior formal psychometric testing [133].…”

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A Systematic Review of Studies Using the Brief COPE: Religious Coping in Factor Analyses

Krägeloh

2011

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Abstract:Religion is generally recognized as a major resource for dealing with stressful events, but its relationship with secular coping strategies continues to be debated. The present article provides a systematic review of the way in which analyses of the sub-scale turning to religion of the widely used Brief COPE [1] instrument are presented in peer-reviewed research articles, in order to investigate how the wealth of data published using this instrument can inform how religious coping relates to other coping strategies. Of the 212 identified articles that included turning to religion in their analyses, 80 combined sub-scale scores to form higher-order coping factors, 38 of which based on exploratory factor analyses of their own datasets. When factor analyses had used individual items as indicators, religious coping was more likely to load together with maladaptive coping strategies, and more likely with adaptive coping strategies when analyses were conducted at sub-scale level. To a large extent, the variation in the results from exploratory factor analyses appears to be due to the diverse and often inappropriate factor analytic techniques used to determine the factor structure of the Brief COPE instrument. Reports from factor analyses of the Brief COPE therefore have very little value when trying to make general conclusions about the role of religious coping in relation to secular coping methods.

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Religious/spiritual coping and adjustment in individuals with cancer: unanswered questions, important trends, and future directions

Cited by 30 publications

References 15 publications

Religious Coping and Psychological Distress in Military Veteran Cancer Survivors

Religious Coping and Psychological Distress in Military Veteran Cancer Survivors

Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral medicine

A Systematic Review of Studies Using the Brief COPE: Religious Coping in Factor Analyses

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