title: Spiritual/religious coping in patients with epilepsy: relationship with sociodemographic and clinical aspects and quality of life.
abstract: 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±0.7) than negative coping (2.3±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.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-Campinas), Brazil. gmtedrus@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Glória Maria Almeida Souza
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Tedrus
authors.forename: Lineu Corrêa
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Fonseca
authors.forename: Fabiane
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Pietro Magri
authors.forename: Pedro Henrique Magalhães
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Mendes
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004651:Employment; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012067:Religion; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Epileptic syndrome; Religiousness; Spiritual/religious coping; Spirituality