Religiosity In Nursing

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In cancer patients, Sigal et al. (2008) found no differences between different stages of illness concerning death anxiety and religiosity. Although women generally are more religious than men (Levin & Taylor, 1993), changes in religiosity are not influenced by gender in cancer patients (McFarland et al., 2013).
Recently, The Supernatural Belief Scale (Jong, Bluemke & Halberstad, 2013) was designed to measure respondents ‘tendencies to believe in existentially significant supernatural entities and events, like God, Devil, angels, demons, heaven, hell, miracles, prophecy. A strong agreement with each proposition of the scale indicates confident belief, a strong disagreement implies extreme disbelief or atheism, while the midpoint of the scale

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