Creencias-prácticas y afrontamiento espiritual-religioso y características sociodemográficas en enfermos crónicos

the aim of the study was to identify differences in the beliefs-practice and spiritual-religious coping in terms of sociodemographic characteristics such as gender, education, marital status, live with, occupation, socioeconomic status and time of diagnosis of the disease in 121 patients diagnosed with chronic illness from the city of medellin, colombia. was used as measure the systems of beliefs inventory sbi-15r y spiritual coping scale scs. the results showed statistically significant differences between the beliefs-practice and spiritual-religious coping in terms of age, education, occupation and socioeconomic status, while gender and time of diagnosis of the disease were not variable significant. in conclusion, regardless of time of disease diagnosis and gender for the chronically ill are more spiritual and religious when are being elderly, not have a work activity and have low educational and socio-economic level.