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- Title
Re-examining the Contributions of Faith, Meaning, and Peace to Quality of Life: a Report from the American Cancer Society's Studies of Cancer Survivors-II (SCS-II).
- Authors
Canada, Andrea; Murphy, Patricia; Fitchett, George; Stein, Kevin; Canada, Andrea L; Murphy, Patricia E
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Prior research on spirituality in cancer survivors has often failed to distinguish the specific contributions of faith, meaning, and peace, dimensions of spiritual well-being, to quality of life (QoL), and has misinterpreted mediation analyses with these indices.<bold>Purpose: </bold>We hypothesized a model in which faith would have a significant indirect effect on survivors' functional QoL, mediated through meaning and/or peace.<bold>Methods: </bold>Data were from the American Cancer Society's Study of Cancer Survivors-II (N = 8405). Mediation analyses were conducted with the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-being Scale (FACIT-Sp) predicting the mental component summary (i.e., mental functioning) as well as the physical component summary (i.e., physical functioning) of the SF-36.<bold>Results: </bold>The indirect effect of faith through meaning on mental functioning, 0.4303 (95 % CI, 0.3988, 0.4649), and the indirect effect of faith through meaning and peace on physical functioning, 0.1769 (95 % CI, 0.1505, 0.2045), were significant.<bold>Discussion: </bold>The study findings suggest that faith makes a significant contribution to cancer survivors' functional QoL. Should future longitudinal research replicate these findings, investigators may need to reconsider the role of faith in oncology QoL studies.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CANCER patients' religious life; QUALITY of life; FAITH; MEANING (Psychology); SPIRITUALITY; SPIRITUAL well-being; TUMORS &; psychology; AMERICAN Cancer Society Inc.; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; MATHEMATICAL models of psychology; QUESTIONNAIRES; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2016, Vol 50, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0883-6612
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s12160-015-9735-y