Religiousness/Spirituality in Oncological Patientes:: Life Quality and Health

The study investigated the religious coping in 10 cancer patients of a specialized institution, aged between 25 and 55 years old. The data were collected through interviews. The results were analyzed considering the content of the patients’ verbal report, described as: (1) categories of verbal repor...

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Autores: Fornazari, Silvia Aparecida, El Rafihi Ferreira, Renatha
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositorio:Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/17798
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17798
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Câncer
Religiosidade/espiritualidade
Qualidade de vida
Cancer
Religiousness/spirituality
Quality of life
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Sumario:The study investigated the religious coping in 10 cancer patients of a specialized institution, aged between 25 and 55 years old. The data were collected through interviews. The results were analyzed considering the content of the patients’ verbal report, described as: (1) categories of verbal report’s content (emotional support, healing, searching of meaning, contributions for treatment, and control); and (2) characteristics of religiousness/spirituality. All participants presented verbal reports with contents of religiousness/spirituality, which suggests that due to the relation between the disease and the possibility of death, religious coping became a strategy of stress reduction and quality of life improvement for those patients.