scholarly journals A Survey Study Among Cancer Patients in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Önver A. Cetrez ◽  
Pelin Erbil ◽  
Asil Ortak ◽  
Nader Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Media

To understand the role of culture on the use of the meaning-making coping among people who have been struck by cancer, qualitative and quantitative studies have been conducted in several countries like Sweden, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, and Turkey. This article reports on a quantitative study carried out in Turkey. The aim of the study has been to answer the following question: “Which meaning-making coping method (even nonreligious or spiritual coping methods) is used by informants?” The sample consists of 95 persons, 18+ who had been struck by cancer. The questionnaire was distributed to former/current cancer patients via a web address as an electronic survey through the media page of Cancer Survivors Association. The results of the study show that the most important coping methods used by cancer patients in Turkey are the religious coping (RCOPE) methods, particularly spiritual connection, active religious surrender, passive religious deferral, and pleading for direct intercession. Several RCOPE methods such as spiritual discontent, seeking support from clergy or members, punishing God reappraisal, and demonic reappraisal or self-directing religious coping are not used by the Turkish informants. Nor are non-RCOPE methods highly prevalent among informants.

scholarly journals A Comparative Survey Study on Meaning-Making Coping among Cancer Patients in Turkey

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Önver A. Cetrez ◽  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Pelin Erbil
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Big City ◽  
Spiritual And Religious Coping

(1) Background: The role of culture in secular, spiritual, and religious coping methods is important, but needs more attention in research. The aim has been to (1) investigate the meaning-making coping methods among cancer patients in Turkey and (2) whether there were differences in two separate samples (compared to Study 2, Study 1 had a younger age group, was more educated, and grew up in a big city), (3) paying specific attention to gender, age, education, and area of residence. (2) Methods: Quantitative study using a convenience sampling in two time periods, Study 1 (n = 94) and Study 2 (n = 57). (3) Results: In Study 2, there is a significant increase in several religious and spiritual coping strategies. Additionally, there is a positive correlation between being a woman and using more religious or spiritual coping strategies. Secular meaning-making coping strategies also increase significantly in Study 2. The results confirmed the hypotheses for gender, educational, and age differences in seeking support from religious leaders. The results also confirmed the hypotheses for gender and educational level in a punishing God reappraisal and demonic reappraisal. (4) Conclusions: As Turkey is a country at the junction of strong religiosity and deep-rooted secularism, dividing up the meaning-making coping methods into the religious and spiritual, on one hand, and the secular, on the other, reveals interesting results.

scholarly journals Spiritual and Secular Existential Meaning-Making Coping Methods among Japanese Cancer Patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Mohammad Rabbani ◽  
Xiaohe Yi ◽  
Hiroko Kase ◽  
Nader Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
International Project ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Existential Meaning ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
The Impact

The present article is written on the basis of a sociological international project on meaning-making coping. The aim of the project has been to understand the role of culture in meaning-making coping. The project embarrasses studies among cancer patients in 10 countries. The present article is confined to the results obtained in the study in japan. The main aim was to investigate the impact of culture from a sociological perspective on the choice of coping methods. Twelve participants with various kinds of cancer were interviewed.Several meaning-making coping methods are found in the present study. This study underlines the importance of investigating cultural and social context when investigating into the use of the meaning-making coping methods in different countries.

scholarly journals Religious Coping Methods among Cancer Patients in Three Islamic Countries: A Comparative Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Mohammad Rabbani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
International Study ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Religious Coping Methods

The present article aimed to compare the use of religious coping methods among cancer patients in three Islamic countries from a sociocultural perspective. The article is based on an international study on meaning-making coping in ten countries, among others Malaysia, Iran and Turkey. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted among cancer patients in Malaysia (29), Iran (27) and Turkey (25). The results of the comparison show certain differences in use of religious coping methods between informants in these three countries despite Islam being the dominant religion in all contexts. The findings of this comparative study show the important role culture plays in coping.

The lived experience of Buddhist-oriented religious coping in late life: Buddhism as a cognitive schema

2019 ◽  
pp. 135910531988274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianbin Xu
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Cognitive Schema ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Mantra Meditation

This article explores how older Buddhists in Singapore use Buddhist beliefs and practices to cope with stress. Semi-structured interviews with six older Buddhists were conducted. Interview transcripts were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Data analysis identified three ways of Buddhist-oriented religious coping: meaning-making coping, meditative coping, and ego-transcendence coping. In meaning-making coping, participants employed the notions of karma and duḥkha to make sense of stress. Participants’ meditative coping methods included visualization and mantra meditation. During ego-transcendence coping, participants drew on the notion of non-attachment to the ego. The three ways of Buddhist-oriented religious coping can be examined in a Buddhism-as-cognitive-schema perspective.

Treatment preferences and advance care planning at end of life: The role of ethnicity and spiritual coping in cancer patients

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gala True ◽  
Etienne J. Phipps ◽  
Leonard E. Braitman ◽  
Tina Harralson ◽  
Diana Harris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Advance Care Planning ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Treatment Preferences ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Advance Care

Religious/Spiritual Coping Methods Among Cancer Patients in Portugal

2018 ◽  
pp. 105413731881788
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Paula Mena Matos ◽  
Rita Tavares ◽  
Carla Tomás ◽  
Nader Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Coping Methods

Stress and Hope at the Margins

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-234
Author(s):  
Jonathan Morgan ◽  
Cara E. Curtis ◽  
Lance D. Laird
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Economically Marginalized ◽  
Situational Stress ◽  
The World ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Religiosity And Depression ◽  
The Relationship

For many people across the world, experiences of depression include features that extend beyond the biopsychiatric model, which predominates in research on the relationship between religious and spiritual coping and depressive symptoms. How does attending to these diverse experiences of depression challenge our understanding of the dynamic between religiosity and depression? This paper presents thirteen qualitative interviews among economically marginalized mothers in the metro-Boston area. Analyzing these narratives presents a complex picture of the way chronic situational stress lies beneath their experiences of depression. From this expanded view of depressive experiences, we analyze the religious coping strategies of social support and meaning making to reveal the holistic, yet often ambiguous, ways these mothers engaged religious and spiritual resources to forge hope amidst chronic stress.

scholarly journals Religious/spiritual coping and level of hope in patients with cancer in chemotherapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 640-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diogo Timóteo Costa ◽  
Darine Marie Rodrigues da Silva ◽  
Iago Dillion Lima Cavalcanti ◽  
Eduardo Tavares Gomes ◽  
Juliana Lúcia de Albuquerque Vasconcelos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT Aim: To demonstrate the relationship between religious/spiritual coping and hope in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Method: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study with a quantitative approach performed in a reference outpatient clinic in Caruaru, PE, between August and October 2017. A total of 82 cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy were included in the study, using the brief religious/spiritual coping scale (RCOPE-Brief) and the Herth Hope Scale (HHS). Results: The sample presented mean positive RCOPE scores (3.03 ± 0.41) and the level of hope was considered high (42.7 points ± 3.67). Patients who had a high RCOPE score were found to have a higher mean of Herth’s level of hope (44.12 points). Conclusion: This study becomes relevant to nursing professionals by encouraging care that takes into account the patient’s spiritual dimension in order to stimulate positive mechanisms of religious coping and, consequently, raise the levels of hope.

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