Spiritual Coping Strategies and their Relationship with Illness Adjustment among Iranian Breast Cancer Parent's.

Abstract

Abstract: Introduction: Despite the results of studies on the positive effects of ‎spiritual practice on health, studies on the relationship between spiritual ‎coping and adaptation is different in patients with cancers. This study ‎aimed to investigate the relationship between spiritual coping and ‎adjustment in patients with breast cancer who referred to health centers ‎of Tabriz. ‎Methods: The study was Correlational descriptive that ‎‏266‏‎ breast ‎cancer patients were recruited by convenience sampling. For data ‎collection used from Iran's spiritual coping to standardized ‎questionaires and Iran's cope to standardized questionaires. To ‎determine the relationship between spiritual coping and coping with the ‎disease correlation matrix was used for statistical analysis.‎ Result: There was a significant positive correlation between spiritual ‎coping and adjustment (r=‎‏0/68‏‎ , p=‎‏0/00‏‎). The results of this test in ‎conjunction with the relationship between spiritual coping strategies ‎with subscales Approach-cognitive strategy (r=‎‏0/58‏‎ , p=‎‏0/00‏‎) and ‎subscales Approach- behavioral strategy (r=‎‏0/48‏‎ , p=‎‏0/00‏‎) and ‎subscales Approach- emotional strategy (r=‎‏0/78‏‎ , p=‎‏0/00‏‎) is the ‎statistically significant.‎Conclusion: Spiritual coping improves cope with the disease in patients ‎with breast cancer.