The mediating role of psychological resilience in the effect of strength of religious faith on coping with stress in people with type 2 diabetes: A SEM analysis.

The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show that religious faith or resilience caused better coping. It was a single-centre study of adults with type 2 diabetes who had no psychiatric illness and no communication impairment, so it may not apply to other diabetes populations or to people with those conditions. The analysis included 184 of the 223 people reached; 29 refused and 10 did not meet criteria. All data were self-reported questionnaires, and the reported model fit indices included CFI 0.773 and TLI 0.760, so the model should be read cautiously. The study did not test any intervention, so it does not show that strengthening faith or resilience changes coping or diabetes management.

The authors report no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work.

Do not conclude that strengthening religious faith or resilience will improve diabetes management or stress coping. The study measured associations at one time point and did not test an intervention or cause.