TY  - JOUR
TI  - Spirituality and Religion on Coping with Cancer for Patients and
Caregivers
AB  - The concepts of religion and spirituality play an important role in coping with cancer. The use
of religious or spiritual emotions as a means of coping with cancer disease is, of course,
influenced by the individual’s beliefs, which religion they belong to, or not having a religious
beliefs. This situation, in a fatal disease such as cancer, reveals positive or negative religious/
spiritual coping methods. In this process, patients and caregivers may have different positive
and negative ways of coping, such as worship, strong belief in God, establishing spiritual
relationships with other individuals in the same situation, and seeing the disease as
a punishment. In cancer, both patients and caregivers are often in significant emotional,
social, and spiritual distress. For this reason, spiritual care is considered as a fundamental
element in providing the spiritual care for cancer patients and caregivers. However, most of
the time only is focused on physical care, and the spiritual direction of cancer is ignored.
However, the spiritual evaluation of cancer patients and caregivers by health personnel, and
to be directed to different disciplines when necessary, makes it easier to coping. This review
describes the role of spirituality and religion on coping with cancer for patients and caregivers.
AU  - Vardar, Okan
AU  - Serçekuş, Pınar
AU  - Ozkan, Sevgi
DO  - 10.5152/jern.2021.35651
PY  - 2021
JO  - Journal of education and research in nursing (Online)
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
SN  - 2757-9204
SP  - 462
EP  - 466
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/515200
ER  -