Background: Infertility has been shown to have considerable psychological effects on the well-being of couples, especially women. Religion has been found as a resource used by infertile women to cope with their distress. Little research has examined the influence of religious coping on psychological distress among infertile women in Ghana. This study examines the relationship between positive and negative religious coping and psychological health for women with infertility problems in Ghana.
Methods: One hundred and fifty married women who were receiving assisted reproduction care in two specialized clinics were recruited for this study. Participants were administered with the Brief Symptom Inventory and Brief Religious Coping Scale to assess psychological health associated with infertility and religious coping respectively. A hierarchical regression was performed to examine the relative contribution of the domains of psychological health (i.e. somatization, anxiety and depression) in predicting negative religious coping and positive religious.
Results: The results showed that negative religious coping was significant and positively correlated with somatization, depression and anxiety. Furthermore, a positive relationship also existed between positive religious coping and somatization and anxiety but not depression. After controlling for age and duration of infertility, somatization and anxiety predicted positive religious coping whilst all the domains of psychological health (somatization, anxiety and depression) precited negative religious coping.
Conclusions: This study expanded on the existing literature by examining positive and negative religious coping with psychological distress associated with infertility for women. These results underscore the need for health professionals providing therapies for women with infertility to acknowledge and consider their religious beliefs as this influences their mental health.
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J Relig Health
December 2024
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 72 Nowy Swiat, 00-330, Warsaw, Poland.
In the early part of the Russo-Ukrainian war, the conflict-affected process indicated a complex array of emotions and that people sought religious faith as a coping strategy. We explore emotions and coping with a qualitative study of 22 Ukrainians at the start of the Russian invasion of February 2022. Ukrainians experienced a range of shifting emotions, including fear and hatred, but also positive emotions such as hope and pride.
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Department of Oncology, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bd. Victor Babes No. 16, 300226 Timisoara, Romania.
Background/objectives: This systematic review aimed to comprehensively evaluate the role of spirituality and religion in the journey of patients with cancer and assess their impact on various aspects of well-being and coping mechanisms.
Methods: Systematic searches were conducted in PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar following the PRISMA guidelines. This study focused on the period from 2014 to 2024, the time chosen for the emerging integration of spirituality and religion in cancer treatment.
Adv Med Educ Pract
December 2024
College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to assess the various coping strategies that medical students at Alfaisal College of Medicine use to adapt to stressors and adversities faced in a medical school environment.
Methods: This cross-sectional study utilized an online questionnaire distributed to medical students (aged 18+) at Alfaisal University from March 15 to April 30, 2023. Inclusion criteria focused on College of Medicine students from Years 1 to 5.
Epilepsy Behav
December 2024
Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Av. John Boyd Dunlop s/n. Jardim Ipaussurama, Campinas, SP, Brazil. Electronic address:
Objective: To evaluate the relationship between S/R, demographic data, and clinical variables of Brazilian adult patients with epilepsy (PWE).
Methodology: The scores of the WHO Quality of Life for Assessment of Spirituality, Religion, and Personal Beliefs (WHOQOL-SRPB) were related to demographic and clinical aspects, the Spirituality Self-Rating Scale (SSRS), and the Spiritual/Religious Coping Scale (SRC) of 60 PWE.
Results: The mean age was 42.
BJPsych Open
December 2024
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Background: Little is known about the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in emerging adults living with HIV in low-income countries.
Aims: Determine prevalence of trauma exposure, prevalence of probable PTSD and conditional prevalence of probable PTSD for different traumatic events; and better understand the experiences of individuals with HIV and PTSD.
Method: This mixed method study used secondary data from a cross-sectional survey of people ( = 222) aged 18 to 29 living with HIV in Zimbabwe and primary qualitative data collection.
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