Religious Coping and Empowerment in Patients with Heart Failure

Year 2025, Issue: 9, 20 - 26, 24.11.2025

Sevda Türen , Derya Akça Doğan , Burcu Dedeoğlu Demir , Faruk Yıldızer

https://doi.org/10.26650/CURARE.2025.1706148

Abstract

Objective: Heart failure (HF) is a complex and difficult disease to manage. The patients’ use of coping methods and their level of strength may affect the control of the disease. This study investigated the relationship between HF patients’ level of empowerment and their religious coping.

Methods: The data of the study were obtained with the Heart Failure Empowerment Scale (HFES) and the Religion Coping Scale (RCS).

Results: The mean duration of the diagnosis was 5.77±5.78 years. The patients had mean scores of 9.35±2.41 for negative religious coping and 24.02±4.04 for positive religious coping. The mean HFES total score was 92.07±9.96. It was determined that smoking, symptom severity, and disease duration affected religious coping levels. Patient empowerment was found to be influenced by the following factors: smoking, regular physician control, gender, education, employment status, disease awareness, and perception of health status.

Conclusion: A weak and negative correlation was observed between religious coping and patient empow erment in individuals with HF, suggesting that higher reliance on religious coping may be associated with lower levels of empowerment.

Keywords

Heart Failure , Empowerment , Religious Coping , Holistic Nursing

Ethical Statement

The study was approved by the Istanbul Arel University Institutional Review Board (IRB date and number: 05.08.2022/2022.13).

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