Religious/spiritual coping in informal caregivers of children with cleft lip and/or dysphagic palate

• Autor(a) principal: Farinha,Francely Tineli
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Bom,Gesiane Cristina, Manso,Maila Meryellen Ferreira Garcia, Prado,Priscila Capelato, Matiole,Claudia Regina, Trettene,Armando dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672022001100203
• topic: Caregivers; Cleft Lip; Cleft Palate; Spirituality; Religion

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify the use of religious/spiritual coping in informal caregivers of children with cleft lip and/or palate, dysphagic, powered exclusively by probe. Methods: descriptive and cross-sectional study, including 30 informal caregivers. For data collection, a Sociodemographic Questionnaire and the Brief Religious/Spiritual Coping Scale were used. For statistical analysis, ANOVA, Student’s t and Spearman’s correlation tests were used, with a significance level of 5%. Results: the use of religious/spiritual coping was high among participants (mean=3.71), with a predominance of positive (mean=3.30) compared to negative (mean=1.88). It was evident that the greater the reported importance of religiosity/spirituality in the participants’ lives, the greater the positive coping (p=0.001). Conclusions: informal caregivers used positive religious/spiritual coping as a way of coping with care demands related to the child’s health condition. These findings point to the importance of including spirituality/religiosity as health indicators.