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. 2020 Mar 17:14:1178223420903054.
doi: 10.1177/1178223420903054. eCollection 2020.

Religiosity, Psychological Resilience, and Mental Health Among Breast Cancer Patients in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Nawal A Al Eid  1 , Mohammed Mj Alqahtani  2 , Khaldoun Marwa  3 , Boshra A Arnout  2   4 , Hajar S Alswailem  5 , Al Anoud Al Toaimi  6
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Religiosity, Psychological Resilience, and Mental Health Among Breast Cancer Patients in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Nawal A Al Eid et al. Breast Cancer (Auckl). .

Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the correlations of religiosity and psychological resilience with mental health among cancer patients and to examine whether religiosity and psychological resilience can predict mental health.

Method: The sample consisted of 329 patients. Researchers applied Islamic Religiosity Scale, Wagnild and Young Resilience Scale, and the scale of Hospital Anxiety and Depression.

Results: The results showed that there are positive, statistically significant correlations between religiosity and psychological resilience, while there were negative, statistically significant correlations of religiosity and psychological resilience with mental health. And there are correlations between the alternative therapeutic interventions currently used to religiosity and psychological resilience, while there were no statistically significant correlations between alternative therapeutic interventions that the patient will use in the future to religiosity and psychological resilience. The results also revealed the possibility of predicting mental health through religiosity and psychological resilience.

Conclusion: These results emphasized the importance of increased religiosity and psychological resilience among cancer patients.

Keywords: Cancer; alternative therapeutic interventions; anxiety; depression; psychological resilience; religiosity.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of conflicting interests:The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Path parameters of the triad model of Scale of Islamic Religiosity Attitude.
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Values of t corresponding to the path coefficients of the 3-dimensional model of religiosity.
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Path parameters of the 5 model of the psychological resilience test.
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The t values corresponding to the path coefficients of the 5 model of psychological resilience.
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Path parameters of the model of anxiety and depression scale.
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Values of t corresponding to the path parameters of the model of the anxiety and depression scale.
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