Anxiety in Relatives of Patients Admitted to Cardiac Care Units and its Relationship with Spiritual Health and Religious Coping.
Fereshteh Dehghanrad, Marjan Mosallanejad, Marzieh Momennasab
PMID 33306900WHAT IT FOUND
Relatives of CCU patients had high anxiety.
Anxiety was lower when spiritual health was higher and higher when negative religious coping was higher. Positive religious coping was not linked with anxiety.
Key findings
01Relatives of CCU patients had high anxiety. State anxiety was moderate in 71.8% and trait anxiety was moderate in 77.6%.
02Spiritual health was high in 76.7% of relatives and moderate in 23.3%.
03Anxiety had an inverse relationship with spiritual health and a direct relationship with negative religious coping, but no significant relationship with positive religious coping.
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What it does not show
Convenience sampling from two hospitals in Iran limits generalisability. The study was cross-sectional and used questionnaires, so it cannot show that spiritual health or religious coping caused lower anxiety. The paper reports a planned sample size of 300 but does not state how many relatives were analysed after exclusions. Some relatives did not cooperate because of mental state or physical exhaustion, which the authors say may affect accuracy. The total anxiety score of 88.75 is above the 20 to 80 range described for anxiety scores, so the scale for total anxiety is not clearly explained.
Declared interests
The text reports funding by Shiraz University of Medical Sciences as a master thesis; it does not report a commercial funder or author conflict.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that spiritual or religious interventions reduce relatives' anxiety. This was a questionnaire study with no intervention, and positive religious coping was not linked with anxiety.