The Role of Religious Coping, Spiritual Intelligence, and Spiritual Well-being in Predicting the Perceived Stress of Patients with Cancer

Abstract

The purpose of this s tudy was to inves tigate the role of religious coping, spiritual intelligence, and spiritual well-being in predicting perceived s tress in patients with cancer. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional s tudy, 120 patients, with cancer who were admitted and treated in blood and oncology department of Imam Khomeini hospital of Ardabil in 2019, were selected as target sample. Data collection tools consis ted of perceived s tress scale, religious coping scale, spiritual intelligence scale, and spiritual well-being ques tionnaire. Results: There was a negative and significant relationship between the perceived s tress with the spiritual well-being (β=-0/359: p<0/001), spiritual intelligence (β=-0/170: p<0/007), positive religious coping (β=-0/172: p<0/011) and positive and significant relationship with negative religious coping (β=0/328: p<0/001) in subjects with cancer. The spiritual well-being, religious coping and spiritual intelligence predicted 70% of variance of perceived s tress scores of patients with cancer (p<0/01). Conclusion: Our findings indicate that positive and negative religious coping, spiritual intelligence, and spiritual well-being are associated with perceived s tress and can explain one's attitude toward illness. Therefore, training patients to empower them in these areas have beneficial effects on their health-related quality of life.

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