Abstract:

Aim: This research was carried out to examine the acceptance illness and religious coping styles, the factors affecting them, and the relationship between accepting the illness and religious coping styles in patients on hemodialysis treatment. Material and Method: This study has been done with 332 patients who receive treatment in Atatürk University Research Hospital Dialysis Center, Teach and Research Hospital Dialysis Center and Private Serhat Dialysis Center (receiving HD threatment patients). 297 patients were taken the sample group who were suitable the critics of the study. Research data were collected between the dates of December 2014-January 2015. While collecting data ; questionnaire which consists the specialities of patients, accepting illness measuring device and religious coping styles were used. While evaluating the data; frequency, percentage, correlating analysis, regression analysis, t test, anova test, kruskal wallis test and cronbach alpha analysis were used. Findings: It was identified that the point averages of accepting illness is 36.00±17.56, pozitive religious coping styles were 23.88±1.69, negative religious coping styles are 8.63±1.53. It was determined that the scores of acceptance and religious coping styles of patients differ according to some disease characteristics (p<0.05). A positive correlation was found between patients' disease acceptance scores and positive religious coping styles (r:, 218, p <0.001), and negative religious coping styles (r: -, 233, p <0.005). Result: It was determined that patients receiving HD treatment had high disease acceptance levels and mostly used positive religious coping styles. It was determined that patients who used positive religious coping styles more often accepted the disease more. It was found that patients who used negative religious coping styles more often accepted the disease less.

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