ArticleThe International journal of social psychiatry2023
Religious coping, care burden and psychological distress among informal caregivers of COVID-19 patients: Results of a cross-sectional survey in Pakistan.
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- Exploring the Impact of Home-Based Support on Informal Caregivers: A Qualitative Study in Hyderabad, Pakistan.Cureus · 2026Article
- "Religious Coping Fosters Mental Health": Does Psychological Capital Enable Pakistani Engineers to Translate Religious Coping into Mental Wellbeing?Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Estimating the social burden of COVID-19 among caregivers of COVID-19 patients in punjab, pakistan.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Spirituality and anxiety in pastoral care workers and physicians in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a complex relationship between health and religiosity. People may use religion to cope with difficulties and uncertainties in their life - such as induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
aimsThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between religious coping, care burden and psychological distress among caregivers during COVID-19 in Pakistan.
methodWe conducted a cross-sectional survey in Pakistan. We used the Religious Coping Scale (RCOPE), Care Burden Scale (CB), and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) to measure psychological stress from 303 caregivers. Data were analyzed using a hierarchical linear regression model for each of the three outcome variables, which are depression, anxiety, and stress. This analysis allows to investigate whether adding variables significantly improves a model's ability to predict the criterion variable.
resultsThe findings reveal that emotional care burden, physical care burden, negative religious coping, and social care burden explain a significant amount of the variance of three components of psychological distress among caregivers.
conclusionsHealth experts, psychologists, and policymakers can make better strategies to combat pandemics like COVID-19 by incorporating religious coping methods.
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