Spiritual well-being, anxiety and depression in the preoperative period of cardiac surgery

Spiritual well-being, anxiety and depression in the preoperative period of cardiac surgery

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Objective: to correlate religiosity and spiritual well-being with anxiety and depression in patients in the preoperative period of cardiac surgery.Methods: cross-sectional study conducted with 174 patients admitted to a university hospital using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, and the DUKE Religiosity scalp serum Index.Results: the religious well-being and religiosity dimensions did not present significant differences between anxious and non-anxious patients.Existential well-being showed lower scores than religious well-being, being significantly lower among anxious patients.

Among patients with depressive symptoms, the existential well-being score was significantly lower.Religiosity and religious well-being were not different between depressed and non-depressed patients.Conclusion: religiosity and spirituality did not exempt patients from presenting anxiety and depression in the preoperative period of cardiac surgery, Ski de fond - Homme - Bottes - Back country although they are cited as mediators of coping strategies and psychological adaptation.Contributions to practice: the present study provides evidence that religiosity does not exempt patients from being anxious while waiting for heart surgery.