Predictive Cross-sectional Study of religiosity, mental immunity, and psychological well-being of diabetes patients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Abstract This predictive cross-sectional study aimed to examine the levels of religiosity, mental immunity, and psychological well-being (PWB) in patients with diabetes, taking into consideration differences due to gender as well as the possibility of predicting the diabetic patients PWB through religiosity and psychological immunity variables. This study was conducted from May 2022 to February 2023 on a random stratified sample of 186 Saudis diagnosed with diabetes. After obtaining the consent of the participants in the study, they answered the scales of religiosity, psychological immunity, and PWB. Means and standard deviations were used to measure the levels of study variables, the t-test to detect differences, and linear regression analysis to validate the predictability of PWB from religiosity and psychological immunity variables. The results indicated average religiosity, psychological immunity, and PWB mean levels. Furthermore, the results indicated statistically significant differences between male and female participants in religiosity, psychological immunity, and PWB in favor of females. No statistically significant differences were found between the groups of patients under 50 years of age and those aged 50 and over in the given variables. However, the findings indicated that psychological immunity was a strong predictor of PWB in diabetic patients. These results confirm the necessity of examining the PWB and psychological immunity of diabetic patients periodically after they start drug treatment as well as the attitudes of health care providers in diabetes care centers who should pay more attention to providing psychological care alongside health care in order to enhance the PWB of diabetes patients, especially for male diabetics.