Spiritual/religious coping in patients with epilepsy: Relationship with sociodemographic and clinical aspects and quality of life

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• 作者：Gl¨®ria Maria Almeida Souza Tedrus ; Lineu Corr¨ºa Fonseca ; Fabiane De Pietro Magri ; Pedro Henrique Magalh?es Mendes
• 关键词：Epileptic syndrome ; Spiritual/religious coping ; Religiousness ; Spirituality
• 刊名：Epilepsy & Behavior
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：September, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：28
• 期：3
• 页码：386-390
• 全文大小：198 K

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One hundred and ten patients with epilepsy with a mean age of 45.9 were assessed by a clinical-neurological evaluation, Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory-31 (QOLIE-31), and the Spiritual/Religious Coping (SRCOPE) Scale. The objective of this study was to evaluate if patients with epilepsy used positive and/or negative spiritual/religious coping and the relationships between this type of coping and the sociodemographic and clinical aspects of epilepsy and the QOLIE-31. A greater use of positive coping (3.0 ¡À 0.7) than negative coping (2.3 ¡À 0.7) was found. The use of the positive factor was greater in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) than in other types of epilepsy. The ratio of negative/positive coping was associated with lower scores in the QOLIE-31 (? 0.222; p = 0.036). Patients with epilepsy appear to use spiritual/religious coping, especially those with MTLE, and a predominance of negative coping was associated with a reduced quality of life. Future studies should evaluate interventions considering the knowledge of spiritual/religious strategies by the patients.