Religious coping, care burden and psychological distress among informal caregivers of COVID-19 patients: Results of a cross-sectional survey in Pakistan.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Sage Publications Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0374726 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1741-2854 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00207640 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Int J Soc Psychiatry Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: <2002->: London : Sage Publications
      Original Publication: London Avenue Publishing Co
    • Subject Terms:
      COVID-19* ; Psychological Distress*; Humans ; Caregivers/psychology ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Caregiver Burden ; Pakistan ; Pandemics ; Adaptation, Psychological ; Stress, Psychological/epidemiology ; Stress, Psychological/psychology
    • Abstract:
      Background: There is a complex relationship between health and religiosity. People may use religion to cope with difficulties and uncertainties in their life - such as induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
      Aims: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between religious coping, care burden and psychological distress among caregivers during COVID-19 in Pakistan.
      Method: We conducted a cross-sectional survey in Pakistan. We used the Religious Coping Scale (RCOPE), Care Burden Scale (CB), and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) to measure psychological stress from 303 caregivers. Data were analyzed using a hierarchical linear regression model for each of the three outcome variables, which are depression, anxiety, and stress. This analysis allows to investigate whether adding variables significantly improves a model's ability to predict the criterion variable.
      Results: The findings reveal that emotional care burden, physical care burden, negative religious coping, and social care burden explain a significant amount of the variance of three components of psychological distress among caregivers.
      Conclusions: Health experts, psychologists, and policymakers can make better strategies to combat pandemics like COVID-19 by incorporating religious coping methods.
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Religion; caregiving; informal care; tradition
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20230323 Date Completed: 20230927 Latest Revision: 20231115
    • Publication Date:
      20240628
    • Accession Number:
      PMC10037130
    • Accession Number:
      10.1177/00207640231162277
    • Accession Number:
      36951388