The role of religious coping in the experience of mourning and mental health of survivors of the COVID-19

Since early 2020, The COVID-19 pandemic, many people have been infected with the disease and a significant number have lost their lives. The survivors of the deceased, due to severe communication restrictions (quarantine), are deprived of all kinds of individual and social support to facilitate the experience of mourning, which in itself threatens the physical and psychological health of the survivors. The aim of this study was to investigate the multivariate relationship between different styles of religious coping, the experience of mourning and the mental health of survivors of coronary heart disease. 277 residents of Mashhad who lost one of their close relatives in the hospital due to coronary heart disease successfully completed the electronic questionnaires of this study. The method of this research was descriptive-correlational. The mourning list, the Anxiety, Depression and Stress Scale, and the Religious Coping Scale were used to measure the research variables. The results of analysis showed that there is a significant relationship between all research variables at the level of and the highest correlation coefficient between the negative religious confrontation and the component of separation and rejection of the experience of mourning and the lowest between Positive religious confrontation and panic behavior of grief experience were obtained; Positive religious coping predicted less harm in the experience of grief and more mental health, and negative religious coping predicted more harm in the experience of grief and less mental health.