title: Religious and other predictors of psychosocial adjustment in cancer patients.
abstract: The authors tested the hypothesis that religious variables, such as a person's belief that his/her illness was God's will, would predict psychosocial adjustment in 50 patients who were predominantly Catholic Hispanic women attending a medical oncology clinic (42 women, 8 men). The patients were free of an Axis I mental disorder, cognitive impairment, and severe pain and were not undergoing intensive chemotherapy. By using the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale as the outcome measure, the authors found few associations with religious variables, but many to clinical variables.
authors.affiliation: Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rifkin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Doddi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Karagji
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pollack
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012069:Religion and Psychology