Delusions with Religious Content in Patients with Psychosis: How They Interact with Spiritual Coping
@article{Mohr2010DelusionsWR, title={Delusions with Religious Content in Patients with Psychosis: How They Interact with Spiritual Coping}, author={Sylvia Mohr and Laurence Borras and Carine B{\'e}trisey and Brandt Pierre-Yves and Christiane Gilli{\'e}ron and Philippe Huguelet}, journal={Psychiatry}, year={2010}, volume={73}, pages={158 - 172} }
Delusions with religious content have been associated with a poorer prognosis in schizophrenia. Nevertheless, positive religious coping is frequent among this population and is associated with a better outcome. The aim of this study was to compared patients with delusions with religious content (n = 38), patients with other sorts of delusions (n = 85) and patients without persistent positive symptoms (n = 113) clinically and spiritually. Outpatients (n = 236) were randomly selected for a…
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