Religious Belief as a Coping Strategy
| Autor: | K. Budischewski, Carola Xander, Anja C. Zander-Heinz, Hermann Frommhold, Gerhild Becker, Claudia Domin, Michael Henke, Irenäus A. Adamietz, Felix Momm, Susanne Bartelt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Coping (psychology) medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Pain law.invention Cohort Studies Interviews as Topic Placebos Double-Blind Method Randomized controlled trial law Surveys and Questionnaires Multicenter trial Adaptation Psychological Humans Medicine Spirituality Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Erythropoietin Neoplasm Staging Radiotherapy business.industry Religion and Medicine Head and neck cancer Radiotherapy Dosage medicine.disease Recombinant Proteins Clinical trial Oncology Head and Neck Neoplasms Data Interpretation Statistical Cohort Carcinoma Squamous Cell Quality of Life Physical therapy Female business Follow-Up Studies Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Strahlentherapie und Onkologie. 182:270-276 |
| ISSN: | 1439-099X 0179-7158 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00066-006-1533-9 |
| Popis: | To explore the role of religious belief in coping with disease symptoms and treatment-related side effects in patients with head-and-neck cancer under radiotherapy. Prospectively collected data were used with a cohort of head-and-neck cancer patients treated by radiotherapy and epoetin beta or placebo within a double-blind multicenter trial. All patients were divided into believers and nonbelievers. Answers to a quality of life questionnaire at four points in time during radiotherapy were analyzed according to both groups. Clinical parameters and therapy side effects were controlled regularly. 62.1% of the patients (66/105) sent back a baseline questionnaire discriminating between believers and nonbelievers. For 34.2% (40/105) data of all four measures could be obtained. On average, believers felt better in all categories of side effects at all points of time before, during and directly after therapy. Religious faith seems to play an important role in coping strategies of radiotherapy patients. More research in this area would be worthwhile. |
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