Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Οργάνωση & Διαχείριση ανακουφιστικής & υποστηρικτικής φροντίδας χρονίως πασχόντωνLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Schismenos Konstantinos
Supervisors info:
Κουλουλίας Βασίλειος, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Μυστακιδου Κυριακή, Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Ζυγογιάννη Άννα, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η Πνευματικότητα - Θρησκευτικότητα σε σχέση με την Κατάθλιψη και το Άγχος σε Ασθενείς με Καρκίνο
Translated title:
Spirituality - Religiousness in relation to Depression and Anxiety in Cancer Patients
Summary:
Religion and medicine are following from the ancient societies a common path, regarding the disease and its treatment. The concept of disease is threatening, causing great concern to the patients. The religion, which naturally involves a fairly broad conceptual definition, has emerged as a powerful protective factor addressing this concern.
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between religiosity - Spirituality and Anxiety - depression in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy, the relationship of the patients’ demographic characteristics and the above factors, as well as any change in the sense of religiosity - spirituality as treatment progresses.
Methodology: The research involved 48 cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy who completed questionnaires in two phases and which consisted of the evaluation scale of religiosity and spirituality in people with life-threatening illness (QRFPC25) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).
Results: The patients' demographic characteristics were associated with only some of the subscales of spirituality - religiosity and anxiety - depression. The levels of anxiety and depression were at moderate to normal levels, the majority of patients had mild or no symptoms in both phases of research and clinical cases evaluated as less than 1/3 of the cases. The level of spirituality - religiosity was associated with anxiety and depression subscales of the Faith and the Quality of Life, while the subscales of the HADS and the QRFPC25 questionnaires did not export any statistical correlation between the two phases of the procedure.
Conclusion: Although correlations identified in a limited degree, the study highlights the relationship between the dimensions of Spirituality - Religiosity and Stress - Depression, especially in the dimension of Faith and the Quality of Life of cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy. These findings require further investigation.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Spirituality, Religiosity, Anxiety, Depression, Cancer patients, Radiotherapy
