Religious coping and hospital admissions among adults with sickle cell disease.
Although a well-established literature implicates religiosity as a central element of the African American experience, little is known about how individuals from this group utilize religion to cope with specific health-related stressors. The present study examined the relation between religious coping and hospital admissions among a cohort of 95 adults with sickle cell disease-a genetic blood disorder that, in the United States, primarily affects people of African ancestry. Multiple regression analyses indicated that positive religious coping uniquely accounted for variance in hospital admissions after adjusting for other demographic and diagnostic variables. Specifically, greater endorsement of positive religious coping was associated with significantly fewer hospital admissions (β = -.29, P < .05). These results indicate a need for further investigation of the roles that religion and spirituality play in adjustment to sickle cell disease and their influence on health care utilization patterns and health outcomes.
Bediako
Shawn M
SM
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA. bediako@umbc.edu
Lattimer
Lakshmi
L
Haywood
Carlton
C
Ratanawongsa
Neda
N
Lanzkron
Sophie
S
Beach
Mary Catherine
MC
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012069:Religion and Psychology
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