SPIRITUALITY AND CANCER

灵性与癌症

• 批准号: 7609632
• 负责人: VICTOR J BLAKE
• 金额: $ 5.38万
• 依托单位: MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7609632
• 关键词: African American; Cancer Patient; Code; Complex; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Data; Diagnosis; Funding; Grant; Health; Institution; Interview; Learning; Literature; Malignant Neoplasms; Mediator of activation protein; Participant; Patients; Phase; Procedures; Process; Quality of life; Religion; Religion and Spirituality; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Sampling; Source; Spirituality; Stress; Structure; Techniques; United States National Institutes of Health; abstracting; cancer health disparity; cancer therapy; coping; experience; instrument; posters; survivorship

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The role of religion and spirituality in cancer coping among African Americans: A qualitative examination Abstract There is ample literature suggesting that cancer patients rely on religion and/or spirituality (RS) to cope, particularly African Americans. However, what is yet to be determined is HOW they do so, or which aspects of RS are important in cancer coping. Because both religion and spirituality are multifactorial, it is possible that some factors are important in cancer coping and others are less important. Just as there are multiple channels proposed by which RS impacts one's health (e.g., stress reduction, sense of meaning), there are likely multiple mediators of the relationship between RS and cancer coping and survivorship. The present study explored mediators of RS and cancer coping among African Americans. This was done through conducting semi-structured interviews with 30 African American cancer patients. The interview focused on what patients used to cope with their diagnosis and cancer treatment as well as if and how patients used religion and/or spirituality in coping with cancer. Interviewed patients were six months to five years post-diagnosis. The data were analyzed using an open-coding procedure, with multiple coders, used to establish inter-rater reliability for the codes. The next steps in this research will be to identify existing or develop new instruments to assess these identified mediators of the RS and coping relationship and to conduct some mediational analyses in a larger sample to quantitatively answer the research question of how RS helps (or hinders) African Americans in coping with cancer. Key words: religion, spirituality, cancer coping, cancer disparities, quality of life Learning objectives: After the session (or after viewing the poster) participants will be able to: 1. Understand the importance of exploring the complex phenomenon of the religion/spirituality and cancer coping relationship using qualitative techniques before moving to a quantitative phase. 2. Explain the process by which African American cancer patients described their experience in cancer coping and the role of religion and/or spirituality in it. 3. Articulate themes from the qualitative data, illustrating how the patients used religion and/or spirituality in coping with cancer, or the potential mediators of the RS-coping relationship.

该子项目是利用该技术的众多研究子项目之一 资源由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目及 研究者 (PI) 可能已从 NIH 的另一个来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他 CRISP 条目中表示。列出的机构是 对于中心来说，它不一定是研究者的机构。 宗教和灵性在非裔美国人癌症应对中的作用：定性检查 抽象的 有大量文献表明癌症患者依靠宗教和/或灵性（RS）来应对，尤其是非裔美国人。 然而，尚未确定的是他们如何做到这一点，或者 RS 的哪些方面在癌症应对中很重要。 由于宗教和灵性都是多因素的，因此可能某些因素在癌症应对中很重要，而另一些因素则不太重要。 正如 RS 通过多种渠道影响健康一样（例如，减轻压力、意义感），RS 与癌症应对和生存之间的关系也可能存在多种中介因素。本研究探讨了非裔美国人 RS 和癌症应对的中介因素。 这是通过对 30 名非裔美国癌症患者进行半结构化访谈来完成的。 采访的重点是患者用来应对诊断和癌症治疗的方式，以及患者是否以及如何利用宗教和/或灵性来应对癌症。 接受采访的患者是在诊断后六个月到五年内。 使用开放编码程序和多个编码器对数据进行分析，用于建立代码评估者间的可靠性。 这项研究的下一步将是确定现有的或开发新的工具来评估这些已确定的 RS 和应对关系的中介因素，并在更大的样本中进行一些中介分析，以定量回答 RS 如何帮助（或阻碍）的研究问题非裔美国人应对癌症。 关键词: 宗教, 灵性, 癌症应对, 癌症差异, 生活质量 学习目标：课程结束后（或查看海报后），参与者将能够： 1. 了解在进入定量阶段之前使用定性技术探索宗教/灵性和癌症应对关系的复杂现象的重要性。 2. 解释非裔美国癌症患者描述他们应对癌症的经历以及宗教和/或灵性在其中的作用的过程。 3. 从定性数据中阐明主题，说明患者如何利用宗教和/或灵性来应对癌症，或 RS 应对关系的潜在调节因素。