RT Article
T1 Evaluation of Religious Coping in Tunisian Muslim Women with Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 60
IS 3
SP 1839
OP 1855
A1 Fekih-Romdhane, Feten
A1 Balti, Mehdi
A1 Cheour, Majda
A1 Fendri, Sana
A1 Hakiri, Abir
A1 Labbane, Raja
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1762965860
AB Studies evaluating religious coping in Arab-Muslim populations are few. We aimed to evaluate religiosity and religious coping in a sample of breast cancer women, and to analyze the association between religiosity, religious coping, depression, anxiety, cancer clinical data, and sociodemographic data in our patients. A cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted over a 4-month period in 61 newly diagnosed breast cancer women. We used the following scales: The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21), the Arabic-Brief Religious Coping Scale (A-BRCS) and the Arabic Religiosity Scale. The majority of participants (98.4%) had a moderate to high level of religiosity. A weak correlation was found between religious coping scores and stress, depression, and anxiety scores. Our patients had high scores of positive religious coping, with a mean score of 26.13 out of 28 and used more positive coping than negative coping to cope with the cancerous disease. High levels of affective religiosity were the main predictive factor of positive religious coping. Therapies should reinforce the positive religious coping patterns of breast cancer patients, and detect a possible resort to negative religious coping that may negatively affect the patients’ quality of life.
K1 Breast Cancer
K1 Islam
K1 Religiosity
K1 Religious Coping
K1 Women
DO 10.1007/s10943-020-01066-9