Uso de alcoólicos, personalidade, qualidade de vida e coping religioso-espiritual em hepatopatas

Abstract

The objective of this exploratory study was to identify the character profile, quality of life and the use of spiritual religious coping as a coping strategy of stressful circumstances; and check possible associations between the "character" dimension of personality, use of spiritual religious coping and quality of life-taken separated or together —, pattern of alcohol use (on the whole life and in the last year) and sociodemographyc variables between 125 subjects treated on a Reference Center in Hepatology of an Universitary Hospital. Questionnaires were used semi-structured, confidential, anonymous and self applicable containing several variables sociodemographic; consumption of alcohol on the whole life and on the last year; frequency and personal opinions about the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA); personality character dimensions; use of spiritual religious coping and quality of life on the physical, psychological, social, environmental, and global domains. Exploratory and bivariate analysis were performed and, to characterize the relative influence of variables on the outcomes examined, we used logistic regression. The results indicated that, between the assessed patients, was positively identified by the instruments: 54.2%, 52,7% e 50,9% showed scores above average on the scales self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence, respectively. Regarding quality of life, 54,1% on physical, psychological and environmental domains of WHOQOL-BREF scored above average in self-directedness and 51,3% on social domain achieved best scores on this scale; 50% on the other domains achieved scores above average on cooperativeness; 52% on the social domain and above 52% on the other domains of WHOQOL-BREF scored above average on the scale self-transcendence. As for spiritual religious coping (CREN/CREP ratio), 53,7%, 53,9% and 52,6% achieved scores above average on the scales self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence, respectively. In logistic regression models developed, it was observed that the higher scores on the self-directedness scale were significantly associated to a better quality of life on the WHOQOL-BREF's psychological domain and to a higher use of positive spiritual religious coping, compared to the negative. Higher scores on the Cooperativeness scale were associated to a better quality of life on social and environmental domains and to a higher use of positive spiritual religious coping, compared to the negative. Higher scores on the auto-transcendence scale were associated to a worse quality of life on the WHOQOL-BREF's physical domain.