@article{ref1,
title="Does religious coping and spirituality have a moderating role on depression and anxiety in patients with spinal cord injury? A study from Iran",
journal="Spinal Cord",
year="2015",
author="Rahnama, P. and Javidan, A. N. and Saberi, H. and Montazeri, A. and Tavakkoli, S. and Pakpour, A. H. and Hajiaghababaei, M.",
volume="53",
number="12",
pages="870-874",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: We evaluate the level of anxiety and depression among patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) in relation with their religious coping and spiritual health. SETTING: Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Repair Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. <br><br>METHODS: A sample of patients with SCI participated in this cross-sectional study. They completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Brief Religious Coping Questionnaire and the Spiritual Well-being Scale. Then, the association between anxiety, depression and independent variables was examined. <br><br>RESULTS: In all, 213 patients with SCI were studied. Of these, 64 (30%) have had anxiety and 32 (15%) have had depression. Multiple logistic regression analyses revealed that gender (odds ratio (OR) for female=3.34, 95% confidence interval (CI)=1.31-8.51, P=0.011), employment (OR for unemployed=5.71, 95% CI=1.17-27.78, P=0.031), negative religious coping (OR=1.15, 95% CI=1.04-1.28, P=0.006) and existential spiritual well-being (OR=0.93, 95% CI=0.89-0.97, P=0.003) were significant contributing factors to anxiety (Table 3), whereas negative religious coping (OR=1.21, 95% CI=1.06-1.37, P=0.004) and existential spiritual well-being (OR=0.90, 95% CI=0.84-0.96, P=0.001) were significant contributing factors to depression. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The findings indicated that depression and anxiety are two psychologically important side effects after SCI. The findings also indicated that religion and spiritual well-being have a moderating role on occurrence of depression and anxiety.Spinal Cord advance online publication, 30 June 2015; doi:10.1038/sc.2015.102.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1362-4393",
doi="10.1038/sc.2015.102",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sc.2015.102"
}