Perceived Stress and Religious Coping in Morbidly Obese People

OBJECTIVE: To assess religious/spiritual coping in morbidly obese people and to correlate its relation Perceived Stress. 
 METHOD: Cross-sectional, non-experimental, quantitative study, with collection carried out between September 2020 July 2021. The analyzes were based on absolute relative frequency, central tendency, Shapiro-Wilk normality test Spearman correlation coefficient.
 RESULTS: We obtained 41 participants, 29.27% men 70.73% women. Utilization scores high for Religious Spiritual Coping Scale (SRCOPE), Total SRCOPE (TSRCOPE) (M = 3.6, SD 0.4), medium Positive (PSRCOPE) 3.1, 0.7) low use of Negative (NSRCOPE) 1.9, 0.6). the 14 questions Stress (PSS) showed a positive association TSRCOPE, PSRCOPE (p 0.031 r 0.337) NSRCOPE 0.002 0.477), indicating that believe or negative influence spirituality religiosity their lives. correlations factors 1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6 7 PSS items significant associations practically all questions, especially suggesting participants everyday life.
 CONCLUSION: Stress, whether chronic acute, plays an important role maintenance morbid obesity strategy spiritual religious can be appropriate beneficial population question. Cross-sectional longitudinal studies more robust sample are needed order obtain generalized data entire Brazilian population.