Study of Effectiveness of Spiritual Therapy on Life Satisfaction According to Coping Strategies in Patient with Cancer in Tehran

Encounter to Chronic diseases destroy the physical, psychic, economic, communicational, emotional balance of patient and his/her primary care and create new problems for the family members. The person is taken cancer diagnosis tolerate more physical and psychic pain than her/his family members. In this situation Existence of social protection like to give psychological interventions to patient and his/her primary care is need to increase positive emotions and decrease negative emotions. Spiritual therapy can be useful to arrive the goal. The aim of current study is comparsion of effectiveness of spiritual therapy on life satisfaction according to coping strategies in patient with cancer. The study population included patients with cancer were hospitalized for treatment in tehran in octobr 2015. Sampling method was Accessible and voluntary. 20 person participate as sample in this study. The current study was Semi-pilot with pre test and post test and control group. There were one pilot group and one control group such that experimental group member Received spiritual therapy in period of staying in hospital. control groups member received no intervention. All persons participated in two groups filled out the life satisfaction questionnaire as pre test and post test. To determine Intermediate effect of coping strategy filled out Lazarus and Folkman coping strategies questionnaire. Proposed 2 hypotesis based on this study and data analized with ANOVA and Multivariate covariance. Based on multivariate covariance resultes hipotesis two rejected. Based on Anova hipotesis one accepted. This means that spiritual therapy directly increased life satisfaction in patient with cancer but the mediated effectiveness of it was not meaningful. According to effectiveness of narrative therapy on life satisfaction in patient with cancer it is necessary clinical psychologies presence in Oncology ward.