Mesquita Ana Cláudia, Chaves Érika de Cássia Lopes, Avelino Carolina Costa Valcanti, Nogueira Denismar Alves, Panzini Raquel Gerhke, de Carvalho Emilia Campos
Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2013 Mar-Apr;21(2):539-45. doi: 10.1590/s0104-11692013000200010.
to investigate the use of religious/spiritual coping among people with cancer undergoing chemotherapy.
a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study of 101 patients undergoing intravenous chemotherapy in an oncology outpatients center in a public hospital in Minas Gerais, made in the first semester of 2011. For data collection, an interview was held, using a questionnaire for characterizing the sample and the Brief Spiritual/Religious Coping Scale.
all subjects made use of religious/spiritual coping (mean=3.67; sd=0.37); the younger individuals, those with no religion and those who consider spiritual support unimportant tend to use coping negatively; individuals who would like to receive spiritual support and who participate in support groups for cancer patients, on the other hand, use coping positively.
the study reinforces that religious/spiritual coping is an important strategy for coping with cancer, and contributes to an understanding of the same as a useful tool for spiritual care.
调查正在接受化疗的癌症患者使用宗教/精神应对方式的情况。
2011年上半年，在米纳斯吉拉斯州一家公立医院的肿瘤门诊中心，对101名正在接受静脉化疗的患者进行了一项定量、描述性横断面研究。为收集数据，进行了一次访谈，使用了一份用于描述样本特征的问卷和简短的精神/宗教应对量表。
所有受试者都使用了宗教/精神应对方式（均值=3.67；标准差=0.37）；较年轻的个体、无宗教信仰的个体以及认为精神支持不重要的个体倾向于消极地使用应对方式；另一方面，希望获得精神支持且参加癌症患者支持小组的个体则积极地使用应对方式。
该研究强化了宗教/精神应对方式是应对癌症的重要策略，并有助于将其理解为精神关怀的有用工具。
