RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Religious/Spiritual Coping in Childhood Cystic Fibrosis: A Qualitative Study
JF Pediatrics
JO Pediatrics
FD American Academy of Pediatrics
SP e8
OP e8
DO 10.1542/peds.109.1.e8
VO 109
IS 1
A1 Pendleton, Sara M.
A1 Cavalli, Kristina S.
A1 Pargament, Kenneth I.
A1 Nasr, Samya Z.
YR 2002
UL http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/109/1/e8.abstract
AB Objective. To understand the role of religiousness/spirituality in coping in children with cystic fibrosis (CF).Methods. Participants were a convenience sample of 23 patients with CF, ages 5 to 12 years, and their parent(s) in an ambulatory CF clinic. The design was a focused ethnography including in-depth interviews with children and parent(s), children’s drawings, and self-administered written parental questionnaires. Analysis used grounded theory.Results. Main outcome measures were participants’ views on religion/spirituality in coping with illness. Data included 632 quotes organized into 257 codes categorized into 11 themes. One overarching domain emerged from analysis of the 11 themes: Religious/Spiritual Coping, composed of 11 religious/spiritual coping strategies.Conclusions. Children with CF reported a variety of religious/spiritual coping strategies they nearly always associated with adaptive health outcomes. A preliminary conceptual framework for religious/spiritual coping in children with CF is presented. More study is needed to assess how variability in age, disease type, disease severity, religious/spiritual preference, and religious/spiritual intensity affect religious/spiritual coping in children with chronic illness. Future studies should also investigate whether physician attention to religious/spiritual coping could assist patients in coping with CF and strengthen the doctor-patient relationship.