Spirituality and depressive symptoms in a multiethnic sample of cancer survivors.

Olajide N BamishigbinKevin D SteinCorinne R LeachAnnette L Stanton

Published in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2020)

Cancer survivors with greater meaning and peace appear better able to integrate the cancer experience into their lives. An interaction between T1 meaning and faith on T3 depressive symptoms replicated previous findings. Future research should treat spirituality as a multidimensional construct and focus on identifying and influencing malleable mechanisms of the associations between spirituality and mental health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

depressive symptoms
mental health
childhood cancer
young adults
social support
papillary thyroid
advanced cancer
sleep quality
current status
emergency department
palliative care
mental illness
adverse drug
lymph node metastasis
psychometric properties
electronic health record