"Letting go" - Relinquishing control of illness outcomes to God and quality of life: Meaning/peace as a mediating mechanism in religious coping with cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Relinquishing control (RC) of outcomes to God is a long-standing form of religious coping with serious illness. Placing cancer outcomes "in God's hands" has been positively related to coping and quality of life (QOL). However, the mechanisms involved in this relationship have not been established. A serial mediation model [i.e., RC (X)-Meaning/Peace (M1)-Coping Efficacy (M2)-Symptoms, Physical QOL, Functional QOL (Ys)] tested the hypothesis that Meaning/Peace alone and in conjunction with coping would mediate the RC-QOL relationship.

Method

548 persons with a cancer diagnosis completed the Religious Problem-Solving Scale (RPSS), FACIT-Sp Meaning and Peace Scales, Cancer Behavior Inventory (coping efficacy), and measures of Physical Quality of Life (PQOL), Function

SUBMITTER: Merluzzi TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9962851 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature