DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2022.v08i03.025

Pages: 244-249

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has been developing in Morocco officially since March 2, 2020. Although the country has put in place measures to contain the spread of the epidemic, the consequences have been significant and have affected all the fields. The purpose of this study was to assess one special field that we tend to omit: the spirituality in cancer patients. Methods: During covid19 pandemic, ninety patients with cancer responded to our questionnaire in Mohammed 6 Hospital in oncology department, from May 4th to May 25th 2020. A thirty-nine questions questionnaire was used, with four major items: About beliefs, worship/practice, spiritual activities and about the pandemic. Results: Patients over 50 years old were the most predominant: 43.3%, with a male predominance 66.7%. More than half (53.3%) were married. More than half of our patients reported the beneficial effect of their beliefs during this pandemic and had resort to god more than before. Prayer and being interested in Quran and Shariaa were beneficial for most than 50% of patients. Most of our patients didn’t see this pandemic as a punishment but as a test and an opportunity to repent. Conclusion: When dealing with crisis, people react in different ways according their background, their beliefs and their experience, but most patients tend to focus on themselves and their -relationship with god/religion- then they focus on the external world.