Religiosity After a Diagnosis of Cancer Among Older Adults.
Religiosity After a Diagnosis of Cancer Among Older Adults.
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10.1080/15528030.2014.928922
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2014-01-01
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Brown CJ
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Caplan L;Sawyer P;Holt C;Brown CJ
宗教信仰对癌症患者的健康和生活质量很重要。这项分析调查了居住在社区的癌症幸存者的宗教信仰变化。65岁以上的癌症幸存者在基线和四年后接受了先前诊断和新诊断的癌症幸存者的采访，以了解宗教信仰的组成部分是如何变化的。使用杜克宗教虔诚度量表，将宗教虔诚度分为组织性、非组织性和内在性。四年后，除了基线诊断的94人外，还有45人被诊断为非皮肤癌。与没有癌症诊断的人和基线诊断的参与者相比，新诊断的参与者更有可能减少去教堂的次数。虽然没有统计上的显著性，但与基线癌症患者和非癌症患者相比，最近确诊的患者增加了非组织宗教信仰行为和内在宗教信仰的比例更大。非裔美国人比白种人更有可能表现出非组织的宗教信仰。被诊断患有癌症的白种人表现出更强烈的内在宗教信仰，这可能是因为非裔美国人的天花板效应。尽管所有的小组在测量中都表现出下降和增加，但基线宗教信仰是48个月时宗教信仰的最强预测指标，表明宗教信仰随着时间的推移保持稳定，即使是在癌症诊断的背景下。
Aspects of religiosity are important to health and quality of life of cancer patients. This analysis examined changes in religiosity among community-dwelling cancer survivors. Previously diagnosed and newly diagnosed cancer survivors age 65+ were interviewed at baseline and four years later to understand how components of religiosity may change. Religiosity was assessed as organizational, non-organizational, and intrinsic using the Duke Religiosity Scale. At four years, 45 persons had a new diagnosis of non-skin cancer in addition to the 94 diagnosed at baseline. In comparison to persons without a cancer diagnosis and participants with a baseline diagnosis, newly diagnosed participants were more likely to decrease church attendance. Although not statistically significant, a larger proportion of recently diagnosed persons increased non-organizational religiosity behaviors and intrinsic religiosity compared to those with cancer at baseline and those without cancer. African Americans were more likely than Caucasians to show increased non-organizational religiosity. Caucasians with a cancer diagnosis showed increased intrinsic religiosity, perhaps because of a ceiling effect among African Americans. Although all groups showed declines and increases in the measures, baseline religiosity was the strongest predictor of religiosity at 48 months, indicating stability in religiosity over time, even in the context of a cancer diagnosis.