Religious coping and God locus of health control: their relationships to health quality of life among people living with HIV in Malaysia

Abstract

Background The aim of the report was to explore the relationships between God health locus of control, religious coping, and health quality of life among people living with HIV (PLWH). Participants and procedure Purposive sampling was used to recruit 117 PLWH who have a religion, and the survey method was used to collect data. Results The results showed that God health locus of control was significantly positively correlated with negative religious coping, and negative religious coping was significantly negatively correlated with health quality of life. In addition, negative religious coping is the mediator of the indirect effect of God health locus of control on the quality of life. Conclusions More training to reduce the use of negative religious coping among PLWH who have a religion in Malaysia will be helpful to improve their overall function quality of life (QoL).