Associations of spiritual well-being and hope with health anxiety severity in patients with Advanced Coronary Artery Disease
Heshmati, Rasoul, Jafari, Eisa, Salimi Kandeh, Tahereh, and Caltabiano, Marie L. (2021) Associations of spiritual well-being and hope with health anxiety severity in patients with Advanced Coronary Artery Disease. Medicina, 57 (10). 1066.
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Abstract
Background and Objectives: Health anxiety is one of the most common problems in patients with coronary artery disease. The present study tested whether health anxiety severity could be predicted by spiritual well-being and hope in patients with advanced coronary artery disease.
Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 100 patients with advanced coronary artery disease were recruited from hospitals and healthcare centers in Iran. Patients completed self-report scales,including the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Adult Hope Scale, and Short Health Anxiety Inventory. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to empirically explore the relations among variables.
Results: Results indicated that patients who reported higher levels of hope (β = 0.42, p < 0.01) and spiritual well-being (β = 0.20, p < 0.05) reported lower levels of health anxiety. Agency (β = 0.58,p < 0.01) scores were a significant negative predictor of health anxiety severity. Additionally, religious spirituality scores (β = 0.28, p < 0.01) were shown to significantly negatively predict health anxiety level. However, the pathways components of hope and existential spirituality were not significant predictors.
Conclusion: The findings of the present study indicate that spiritual well-being and hope could be important factors in determining health anxiety for adults with coronary artery disease, and their role is worthy of further exploration to help improve health anxiety for patients with coronary artery disease.
| Item ID: | 69609 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1648-9144 |
| Keywords: | health anxiety, spiritual well-being, advanced coronary artery disease |
| Copyright Information: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2021 00:42 |
| FoR Codes: | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5203 Clinical and health psychology > 520302 Clinical psychology @ 50% 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5203 Clinical and health psychology > 520304 Health psychology @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2001 Clinical health > 200199 Clinical health not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
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