ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1535340
This article is part of the Research TopicBurnout, Wellbeing and Resilience of Healthcare Workers in the Post-COVID WorldView all 18 articles
Relationship between Religious Coping and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Professional Quality of Life of Nurses Working at COVID-19 Wards: (A Descriptive descriptive correlational study)
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- Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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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.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 < .05.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<0.05=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).Positive religious coping was correlated with reduced PTSD and improved PQoL among nurses.
Keywords: religious and spiritual coping, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Quality of life (PQoL), Nurse, COVID-19 Religious coping, Professional quality of life (PQoL), Nurses, COVID-19
Received: 27 Nov 2024; Accepted: 14 May 2025.
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* Correspondence: Marzieh Momennasab, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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