title: Religiosity and religious coping in patients with cardiovascular disease: change over time and associations with illness adjustment.
abstract: Little is known about the longitudinal relationship between religiosity/spirituality (R/S) and patient physical and mental health in patients with cardiovascular disease. Forty-three patients with a first-time myocardial infarction or coronary artery revascularization bypass surgery completed measures of religiosity, religious coping, quality of life (QOL), and weight prior to a cardiac rehabilitation program and 1 and 2 years later. R/S changed over time; the direction of the change varied by type of R/S. Increases in religiosity were associated with increases in weight and QOL; increases in religious coping were associated with decreases in weight and increases in QOL.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ, 08028, USA, Trevino.kelly@gmail.com.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Trevino
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: McConnell
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000072038:Cardiac Rehabilitation; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D029181:Spirituality