Adults with cystic fibrosis: spiritual coping with lifelong disease.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a chronic life-shortening disease requiring significant coping. Spiritual belief relates to treatment behaviors. Little is known about spirituality's role in adults diagnosed as children, nor how it compares with adults diagnosed as adults.

Spiritual Struggle in Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis Increases Odds of Depression.

Objective: Spiritual struggle (SS) is associated with poorer health outcomes including depression. The study's main objectives were to characterize change in depression over time, examine longitudinal associations between SS and depression, and determine the extent to which experiencing SS at baseline was predictive of developing depression at follow-up.

Methods: A two-site study collected questionnaire responses of parents ( = 112; 72% female) of children with cystic fibrosis followed longitudinally.