The Greek‑Orthodox version of the Brief Religious Coping (B‑RCOPE) instrument: psychometric properties in three samples and associations with mental disorders, suicidality, illness perceptions, and quality of life
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Ημερομηνία
Συγγραφείς
Paika, Vassiliki
Andreoulakis, Elias
Ntountoulaki, Elisavet
Papaioannou, Dimitra
Kotsis, Konstantinos
Siafaka, Vassiliki
Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N.
Pargament, Kenneth I.
Carvalho, Andre F.
Hyphantis, Thomas
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Περιοδικό ISSN
Τίτλος τόμου
Εκδότης
BioMed Central
Περίληψη
Τύπος
Είδος δημοσίευσης σε συνέδριο
Είδος περιοδικού
peer-reviewed
Είδος εκπαιδευτικού υλικού
Όνομα συνεδρίου
Όνομα περιοδικού
Annals of General Psychiatry
Όνομα βιβλίου
Σειρά βιβλίου
Έκδοση βιβλίου
Συμπληρωματικός/δευτερεύων τίτλος
Περιγραφή
Background: The B-RCOPE is a brief measure assessing religious coping. We aimed to assess the psychometric properties of its Greek version in people with and without long-term conditions (LTCs). Associations between religious coping and mental illness, suicidality, illness perceptions, and quality of life were also investigated.
Methods: The B-RCOPE was administered to 351 patients with diabetes, chronic pulmonary obstructive disease (COPD), and rheumatic diseases attending either the emergency department (N = 74) or specialty clinics (N = 302) and 127 people without LTCs. Diagnosis of mental disorders was established by the MINI. Associations with depressive symptom severity (PHQ-9), suicidal risk (RASS), illness perceptions (B-IPQ), and health-related quality of life (WHOQOLBREF) were also investigated.
Results: The Greek version of B-RCOPE showed a coherent two-dimensional factor structure with remarkable stability across the three samples corresponding to the positive (PRC) and negative (NRC) religious coping dimensions.
Cronbach’s alphas were 0.91–0.96 and 0.77–0.92 for the PRC and NRC dimensions, respectively. Furthermore, NRC was associated with poorer mental health, greater depressive symptom severity and suicidality, and impaired HRQoL. In patients with LTCs, PRC correlated with lower perceived illness timeline, while NRC was associated with greater perceived illness consequences, lower perceived treatment control, greater illness concern, and lower illness comprehensibility.
Conclusions: These findings indicate that the Greek-Orthodox B-RCOPE version may reliably assess religious coping.
In addition, negative religious coping (i.e., religious struggle) is associated with adverse illness perceptions, and thus may detrimentally impact adaptation to medical illness. These findings deserve replication in prospective studies.
Περιγραφή
Λέξεις-κλειδιά
Anxiety, Chronic illness, Depression, Illness perceptions, Mental disorder, Psychometric properties, Quality of life, Religious coping, Religiousness, Suicidal risk
Θεματική κατηγορία
Παραπομπή
Σύνδεσμος
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-017-0136-4
Γλώσσα
en
Εκδίδον τμήμα/τομέας
Όνομα επιβλέποντος
Εξεταστική επιτροπή
Γενική Περιγραφή / Σχόλια
Ίδρυμα και Σχολή/Τμήμα του υποβάλλοντος
Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Σχολή Επιστημών Υγείας. Τμήμα Ιατρικής
University of Ioannina, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
University of Ioannina, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
Πίνακας περιεχομένων
Χορηγός
Βιβλιογραφική αναφορά
p. 12-13