ArticleAIDS patient care and STDs2014
Longitudinal spiritual coping with trauma in people with HIV: implications for health care.
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- Higher religiosity and spirituality are associated with ethnic group membership among middle-aged and older adults living with HIV.HIV research & clinical practice · 2022Article
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- Inner posture as aspect of global meaning in healthcare: a conceptual analysis.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2019Article
- Building Capacity Among Laity: A Faith-Based Health Ministry Initiative.Journal of religion and health · 2018Review
- Relationship Between Spiritual Coping and Survival in Patients with HIV.Journal of general internal medicine · 2016Article
- Utilized Resources of Hope, Orientation, and Inspiration in Life of Persons with Multiple Sclerosis and Their Association with Life Satisfaction, Adaptive Coping Strategies, and Spirituality.Journal of religion and health · 2016Article
- Spirituality/Religiosity: A Cultural and Psychological Resource among Sub-Saharan African Migrant Women with HIV/AIDS in Belgium.PloS one · 2016Article
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- Finding meaning in life while living with HIV: validation of a novel HIV meaningfulness scale among HIV-infected participants living in Tennessee.BMC psychology · 2015Article
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- Future directions for interventions targeting PTSD in HIV-infected adults.The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANACReview
- Role of Spirituality as a Coping Method for Psychological Distress in People Living with HIV/AIDS.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
- Not a Cure but a Comfort: The Role of Spiritual Coping in Responding to Anxiety among Women Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
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Abstract
This 10-year study (N=177) examines how people with HIV use spirituality to cope with life's trauma on top of HIV-related stress (e.g., facing death, stigma, poverty, limited healthcare) usual events. Spirituality, defined as a connection to a higher presence, is independent from religion (institutionalized spirituality). As a dynamic adaptive process, coping requires longitudinal studying. Qualitative content-analysis of interviews/essays yielded a coding of specific aspects and a longitudinal rating of overall spiritual coping. Most participants were rated as spiritual, using spiritual practices, about half experienced comfort, empowerment, growth/transformation, gratitude, less than one-third meaning, community, and positive reframing. Up to one-fifth perceived spiritual conflict, struggle, or anger, triggering post-traumatic stress, which sometimes converted into positive growth/transformation later. Over time, 65% used spiritual coping positively, 7% negatively, and 28% had no significant use. Spirituality was mainly beneficial for women, heterosexuals, and African Americans (p<0.05). Results suggest that spirituality is a major source of positive and occasionally negative coping (e.g., viewing HIV as sin). We discuss how clinicians can recognize and prevent when spirituality is creating distress and barriers to HIV treatment, adding a literature review on ways of effective spiritual assessment. Spirituality may be a beneficial component of coping with trauma, considering socio-cultural contexts.
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