The use of religious/spiritual coping among patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

Objective: to investigate the use of religious/spiritual coping among people with cancer undergoing chemotherapy.

Methods: 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.