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Zohreh Sanavi Shiri1, Pouran Tavakoli1, Marzieh Momennasab1
1School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Purpose:
Considering effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the physical and mental health and professional quality of life (PQoL) of nurses working at COVID-19 wards, it seems necessary to investigate the factors affecting adaptation and reducing adverse effects of this pandemic on nurses. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between religious coping with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and professional quality of life (PQoL) among nurses.
Materials And Methods:
This descriptive correlational study was conducted on 368 nurses working at hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. In this research, Mississippi scale for post-traumatic stress disorder (M-PTSD), Pargament's brief religious coping measure (B-RCOPE) and Stamm's professional quality of life (proQol) were used for data collection. Statistical significance was considered at p < 0.05.
Results:
The mean score of positive religious coping was 13.01 ± 5.22 (moderate) and the mean score of negative religious coping was 5.27 ± 4.57 (low). The mean PTSD score of nurses was 96.92 ± 18.17 and most of them were at the moderate level (92.9%). The scores of compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction were in the moderate range. The Spearman's correlation test results showed a significant and negative correlation between positive religious coping and PTSD, and a significant and positive correlation between negative religious coping and PTSD (p = 0.000). Moreover, a significant and positive correlation was observed between compassion satisfaction and positive religious coping (p = 0.005), and a negative and significant correlation was found between compassion fatigue and secondary stress and positive religious coping (p < 0.05). The statistical test of multiple regression revealed a significant correlation between nurses' positive religious coping and compassion satisfaction, as well as between nurses' negative religious coping and secondary stress and PTSD (p < 0.05).
Conclusion:
Positive religious coping was correlated with reduced PTSD and improved PQoL among nurses.
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