Authors
Saeed Pahlevan Sharif, Rebecca H Lehto, Hamid Sharif Nia, Amir Hossein Goudarzian, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Ameneh Yaghoobzadeh, Bahram Tahmasbi, Roghieh Nazari
Publication date
2018/8
Journal
Supportive Care in Cancer
Volume
26
Pages
2571-2579
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
Purpose
The study investigated relationships among the extent of disease, religious coping, and death depression in Iranian patients with cancer.
Method
A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenience sample of 482 Iranian cancer patients. Participants completed demographic and health, death depression, and religious coping surveys.
Results
After controlling for demographic and health characteristics, positive and negative religious coping behaviors were significantly related to the experience of death depression. There was an interaction effect between negative religious coping and extent of disease with significant positive relationships to the experience of death depression.
Conclusions
Negative religious coping was found to be more closely associated …
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