Spiritual and Religious Coping in Caregivers of Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

Amit Aakash Shah · Andrea Lynn Snow · Mark E. Kunik

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This study investigates the prevalence of religiously based coping mechanism use in Alzheimer's caregivers who use support groups and the correlation between the use of these coping mechanisms and caregiver mental health. Caregivers completed scales measuring depression, burden, religiosity, and religious coping. Caregivers reported high levels of spirituality and religious coping mechanism use. Those caregivers that felt anger or distance from God and who questioned their faith or religious beliefs were significantly (p < 0.001) correlated with increased depression and perceived burden. Other measured subscales did not show significant correlations with mental health variables.

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