The relationship between Religious Coping and life expectancy in diabetic patients

Studies show that several factors affect the life expectancy of patients. Religious Coping is one of the factors that seems to be related to patients' life expectancy. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship between Religious coping styles and life expectancy of diabetic patients referred to Mostafavian Clinic in Sari .

This descriptive and analytical study was performed with the participation of 130 diabetic patients referred to the Mostafavian Clinic in Sari in 2020. Data were collected using the Miller Life expectancy questionnaire and the Questionnaire of Religious Coping Strategies of Aflak Sear and Jay Coleman. Data were also analyzed by independent t-test, analysis of variance, independent t-test and regression tests using SPSS 24 ver software.

Mean age of patients in this study was 54.38±8.3 years. The mean scores of life expectancy and religious coping strategies in the participants in this study were 165.9 ± 11.7 and 69.5 ± 7.2, respectively. Based on the results of Pearson correlation coefficient, there was a direct and significant relationship between life expectancy and religious coping strategies in diabetic patients referred to Mostafavian Clinic in Sari And with the increase of religious strategies, life expectancy in patients increases (r = 0.297 and p = 0.001).

diabetic patients referred to Mostafavian Clinic in Sari have high religious strategies and life expectancy and the development of appropriate religious protocols to increase patients' life expectancy by health supply policymakers is essential.