Resilience and spirituality in patients with depression and their family members: A cross-sectional study

Autor: Ryosuke Tarumi, Hiroyuki Uchida, Chisa Ozawa, Jinichi Hirano, Yuya Mizuno, Kazuhito Fujii, Hideaki Tani, Kazunari Yoshida, Masaru Mimura, Takefumi Suzuki, Ellen B. Rubinstein
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol 77, Iss, Pp 53-59 (2017)
Popis: Objective: The degree and quality of resilience in patients with depression have never been investigated in the context of remission status, spirituality/religiosity, and family members' resilience levels, which was addressed in this study. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited Japanese outpatients with depressive disorder according to ICD-10 and cohabitant family members who were free from psychiatric diagnoses. Resilience was assessed using the 25-item Resilience Scale (RS). Other assessments included the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS); the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being Scale (FACIT) and Kasen et al.'s (2012) scale for spirituality/religiosity; and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). Results: One hundred outpatients with depression (mean ± SD age, 50.8 ± 14.5 years; 44 men; MADRS total score 9.8 ± 9.0) and 36 healthy family members (mean ± SD age, 56.5 ± 15.0 years; 18 men) were included. Symptom severity, attendance at religious/spiritual services, and self-esteem were significantly associated with RS scores in the patient group. RS total scores were significantly higher in remitted patients compared to non-remitted patients (mean ± SD, 112.3 ± 17.1 vs. 84.8 ± 27.7, p
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