Religion

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Let Me Help You Help Me": Church-Based HIV Prevention for Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • "The Patient Is Dying, Please Call the Chaplain": The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center's Intensive Care Units. 
  • A Course on Religion and Public Health at Harvard. 
  • A Gay Couple Meets Their Mormon Doctor. 
  • A Survey of Medical Student Experiences of Patients' Religion and Spirituality at One Medical School. 
  • A commentary: the role of religion and spirituality at the end of life. 
  • A prospective study of religion/spirituality and depressive symptoms among adolescent psychiatric patients. 
  • A randomized trial of the effect of prayer on depression and anxiety. 
  • A spiritual problem? Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' interpretations of medically unexplained symptoms. 
  • A systematic review of research on religion in four major psychiatric journals: 1991-1995. 
  • ADHD, Religiosity, and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Adolescence and Adulthood. 
  • Abortion provision among practicing obstetrician-gynecologists. 
  • Abortion: the agent's perspective. 
  • Abstinence versus alcohol use among elderly rural Baptists: a test of reference group theory and health outcomes. 
  • Age-related declines in activity level: the relationship between chronic illness and religious activities. 
  • Aging, health, and the "electronic church". 
  • An 81-year-old woman with chronic illnesses and a strong faith. 
  • An analysis of research on religious and spiritual variables in three major mental health nursing journals, 1991-1995. 
  • An overview of the history and current status of clergy health. 
  • Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief. 
  • Association of Religious Involvement and Suicide. 
  • Attention to inpatients' religious and spiritual concerns: predictors and association with patient satisfaction. 
  • Attitudes of paediatric and obstetric specialists towards prenatal surgery for lethal and non-lethal conditions. 
  • Attitudes, psychology, and risk taking of potential live kidney donors: strangers, relatives, and the general public. 
  • Back to the future: The AMA and religion, 1961-1974. 
  • Barriers to the participation of African-American patients with cancer in clinical trials: a pilot study. 
  • Belief in life after death and mental health: findings from a national survey. 
  • Beliefs in karma and reincarnation among survivors of violent trauma--a community survey. 
  • Black Mothers Living With HIV Picture the Social Determinants of Health. 
  • Caregiver intervention research: an opportunity for collaboration between caregiving investigators and African-american faith communities. 
  • Changes in religious beliefs following trauma. 
  • Children who prosper in unfavorable environments: the relationship to social capital. 
  • Church attendance and new episodes of major depression in a community study of older adults: the Cache County Study. 
  • Church rosters: is this a viable mechanism for effectively recruiting African Americans for a community-based survey? 
  • Closeness to God among those doing God's work: a spiritual well-being measure for clergy. 
  • Compulsory Organ Retrieval: Morally, But Not Socially, Justified. 
  • Conceptualizing "religion": How language shapes and constrains knowledge in the study of religion and health. 
  • Contribution of attitudinal factors to blood donation in African American church attendees. 
  • Correlates of functional capacity among centenarians. 
  • Decreased symptoms of depression after mindfulness-based stress reduction: potential moderating effects of religiosity, spirituality, trait mindfulness, sex, and age. 
  • Development of a measure of college students' adherence to religious doctrine concerning sexual behavior. 
  • Dignity in end-of-life care: results of a national survey of U.S. physicians. 
  • Dimensions of Religiosity and PTSD Symptom Clusters in US Veterans and Active Duty Military. 
  • Direct Engagement With Communities and Interprofessional Learning to Factor Culture Into End-of-Life Health Care Delivery. 
  • Do people turn to religion in times of stress?: an examination of change in religiousness among elderly, medically ill patients. 
  • Does disestablishment lead to religious vitality? The case of Switzerland. 
  • Does private religious activity prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,851 older adults. 
  • Does religious attendance prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,968 older adults. 
  • Effect of Cultural, Folk, and Religious Beliefs and Practices on Delays in Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer in African American Women. 
  • Effects of religiosity and religious coping on medication adherence and quality of life among people with epilepsy. 
  • Empirical Studies About Attendance at Religious Services and Health. 
  • Ergot, the "jerks," and revivals. 
  • Exploring the Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Mental Health and Coping in a Group of Canadian Psychiatric Outpatients. 
  • Exploring the meaning of childhood disability: perceptions of disability among mothers of children with disabilities (CWD) in Kuwait. 
  • Exploring the vagueness of Religion & Spirituality in complex pediatric decision-making: a qualitative study. 
  • Finding brands and losing your religion? 
  • Following the call: how providers make sense of their decisions to work in faith-based and secular urban community health centers. 
  • For God (or) country: the hydraulic relation between government instability and belief in religious sources of control. 
  • Frequency of attendance at religious services and mortality in a U.S. national cohort. 
  • Genetic linkage study of high-grade myopia in a Hutterite population from South Dakota. 
  • God at the bedside. 
  • Good death: An exploratory study on perceptions and attitudes of patients, relatives, and healthcare providers, in northern Tanzania. 
  • Health Care Professionals' Responses to Religious or Spiritual Statements by Surrogate Decision Makers During Goals-of-Care Discussions. 
  • Health care and faith communities: how are they related? 
  • Health-related quality of life and its socio-economic and cultural predictors among advanced cancer patients: evidence from the APPROACH cross-sectional survey in Hyderabad-India. 
  • Holy transgressions: breaching the wall between public religion and patient care. 
  • Hope, Religiosity, and Mental Health in U.S. Veterans and Active Duty Military with PTSD Symptoms. 
  • How Christian ethics became medical ethics: the case of Paul Ramsey. 
  • Information Order for Periviable Counseling: Does It Make a Difference? 
  • Integrating Spirituality Into Outpatient Practice in the Adventist Health System. 
  • Integration of Spiritual Care in Hospital Care System in Iran. 
  • Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality. 
  • Lifestyle behavior pattern is associated with different levels of risk for incident dementia and Alzheimer's disease: the Cache County study. 
  • Long-term Adjustment After Surviving Open Heart Surgery: The Effect of Using Prayer for Coping Replicated in a Prospective Design. 
  • Lower hemoglobin concentration decreases time to death in severely anemic patients for whom blood transfusion is not an option. 
  • Marriage and family therapists and the clergy: a need for clinical collaboration, training, and research. 
  • Mental Health, Clinical Practice and COVID-19. 
  • Moral Injury and Religiosity in US Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms. 
  • Moral controversy, directive counsel, and the doctor's role: findings from a national survey of obstetrician-gynecologists. 
  • Moral injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and religious involvement among U.S. veterans. 
  • Motivation and Justification: A Dual-Process Model of Culture in Action 
  • Neural correlates of healing prayers, depression and traumatic memories: A preliminary study. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologist physicians' beliefs about emergency contraception: a national survey. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologists' beliefs about when pregnancy begins. 
  • Of more than one mind: obstetrician-gynecologists' approaches to morally controversial decisions in sexual and reproductive healthcare. 
  • Orbitofrontal cortex volume and intrinsic religiosity in non-clinical psychosis. 
  • Outsourcing punishment to God: beliefs in divine control reduce earthly punishment. 
  • Paediatricians' attitudes and practices towards HPV vaccination. 
  • Pain coping in Latino populations. 
  • Physicians' observations and interpretations of the influence of religion and spirituality on health. 
  • Posttraumatic mental and physical health correlates of forgiveness and religious coping in military veterans. 
  • Predicting the trajectories of depressive symptoms among southern community-dwelling older adults: the role of religiosity. 
  • Predictors of hospitalised patients' preferences for physician-directed medical decision-making. 
  • Pregnancy continuation and organizational religious activity following prenatal diagnosis of a lethal fetal defect are associated with improved psychological outcome. 
  • Principal Sources of Information African American Fathers Draw Upon to Inform their Sons about Sex and Sexual Health Risks. 
  • Provision of spiritual support to patients with advanced cancer by religious communities and associations with medical care at the end of life. 
  • Psychological needs of disaster survivors and families. 
  • Psychometric Validation and Translation of Religious and Spiritual Measures. 
  • Psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Duke University Religion Index in college students and community residents in China. 
  • Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL): a study on Muslims. 
  • Psychosocial determinants of cardiovascular events among black Americans with chronic kidney disease or associated risk factors in the Jackson heart study. 
  • Rationing HIV medications: what do patients and the public think about allocation policies? 
  • Rebellious teens? Genetic and environmental influences on the social attitudes of adolescents. 
  • Reducing harmful alcohol-related behaviors: effective regulatory methods. 
  • Relevance of religion and spirituality in German patients with chronic diseases. 
  • Religion and Caregiving for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Qualitative Study of Caregivers Across Four Religious Traditions and Five Global Contexts. 
  • Religion and Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Religion and aging in a longitudinal panel. 
  • Religion and beliefs about treating medically unexplained symptoms: a survey of primary care physicians and psychiatrists. 
  • Religion and depression in older medical inpatients. 
  • Religion and medicine I: historical background and reasons for separation. 
  • Religion and perceptions of community-based conservation in Ghana, West Africa. 
  • Religion and psychotic experiences. 
  • Religion and remission of depression in medical inpatients with heart failure/pulmonary disease. 
  • Religion and well-being in later life. 
  • Religion index for psychiatric research. 
  • Religion, Age, Education, Lifestyle, and Health: Structural Equation Modeling. 
  • Religion, Spirituality and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A Matched Case-Control Study and Meta-Analysis. 
  • Religion, spirituality and aging. 
  • Religion, spirituality and cardiovascular disease: research, clinical implications, and opportunities in Brazil. 
  • Religion, spirituality and depression in prospective studies: A systematic review. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and aging. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and depression in adolescent psychiatric outpatients. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and health in medically ill hospitalized older patients. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and health: a review and update. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and mental health: current controversies and future directions. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and mysticism. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and risk for incident posttraumatic stress disorder, suicidal ideation, and hazardous drinking in U.S. military veterans: A 7-year, nationally representative, prospective cohort study. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and suicide risk in Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans. 
  • Religion/Spirituality and adolescent psychiatric symptoms: a review. 
  • Religiosity and Beliefs About the Transmission of Cancer, Chemotherapy, and Radiation Through Physical Contact in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Religiosity and Physician Lifestyle from a Family Health Strategy. 
  • Religiosity and Telomere Length: Moderating Effect of Religiosity on the Relationship Between High-Risk Polymorphisms of the Apolipoprotein E and TOMM40 Gene and Telomere Length. 
  • Religiosity and decreased risk of substance use disorders: is the effect mediated by social support or mental health status? 
  • Religiosity and depressive symptoms among older adults in Colombia. 
  • Religiosity and remission of depression in medically ill older patients. 
  • Religiosity and self-rated health among older adults in Colombia. 
  • Religiosity and tobacco and alcohol use in a Brazilian shantytown. 
  • Religiosity as a protective factor in depressive disorder. 
  • Religiosity, psychological resources, and physical health. 
  • Religiosity, spirituality, and end-of-life planning: a single-site survey of medical inpatients. 
  • Religiosity/spirituality and pain in patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Religious Attendance and Biological Risk: A National Longitudinal Study of Older Adults. 
  • Religious Involvement, Anxiety/Depression, and PTSD Symptoms in US Veterans and Active Duty Military. 
  • Religious activities and attitudes of older adults in a geriatric assessment clinic. 
  • Religious affiliation and major depression. 
  • Religious affiliation and suicidality among college students in China: A cross-sectional study across six provinces. 
  • Religious and spiritual beliefs of gynecologic oncologists may influence medical decision making. 
  • Religious attendance and mortality: implications for the black-white mortality crossover. 
  • Religious beliefs and practices in family medicine. 
  • Religious characteristics of U.S. physicians: a national survey. 
  • Religious concepts of brain death and associated problems. 
  • Religious content in the DSM-III-R glossary of technical terms. 
  • Religious coping and health status in medically ill hospitalized older adults. 
  • Religious factors and hippocampal atrophy in late life. 
  • Religious involvement and mental disorders in mainland china. 
  • Religious involvement and mortality: a meta-analytic review. 
  • Religious involvement is associated with greater purpose, optimism, generosity and gratitude in persons with major depression and chronic medical illness. 
  • Religious struggle as a predictor of mortality among medically ill elderly patients: a 2-year longitudinal study. 
  • Religious versus Conventional Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression. 
  • Religiousness and spirituality in fibromyalgia and chronic pain patients. 
  • Remembering 9/11, Moral Injury, COVID-19 and Measuring Religion, Spirituality and Health. 
  • Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest behavior. 
  • Retaining the meaning of the words religiousness and spirituality: a commentary on the WHOQOL SRPB group's "a cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life" (62: 6, 2005, 1486-1497). 
  • Rowe and Kahn's model of successful aging revisited: positive spirituality--the forgotten factor. 
  • Self-transcendent positive emotions increase spirituality through basic world assumptions. 
  • Sexual Orientation, Religious Coping, and Drug Use in a Sample of HIV-Infected African-American Men Living in the Southern USA. 
  • Should academic medical centers conduct clinical trials of the efficacy of intercessory prayer? 
  • Social and personal resources and the prevalence of phobic disorder in a community population. 
  • Soldier and family wellness across the life course: a developmental model of successful aging, spirituality, and health promotion, Part II. 
  • Soldier and family wellness across the life course: a developmental model of successful aging, spirituality, and health promotion. Part I. 
  • Some state vaccination laws contribute to greater exemption rates and disease outbreaks in the United States. 
  • Spiritual Care Providers and Goals-of-Care Discussions--Reply. 
  • Spiritual Fitness for Military Veterans: A Curriculum Review and Impact Evaluation Using the Duke Religion Index (DUREL). 
  • Spiritual Interventions in Veterans with PTSD: A Systematic Review. 
  • Spiritual assessment in medical practice. 
  • Spiritual care at the end of life: what is it and who does it? 
  • Spiritual values in the setting of health care priorities. 
  • Spirituality and chronic illness. 
  • Spirituality, religion, and clinical outcomes in patients recovering from an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Spirituality, resilience, and anger in survivors of violent trauma: a community survey. 
  • Strangers or friends? A proposal for a new spirituality-in-medicine ethic. 
  • Systematic analysis of research on religious variables in four major psychiatric journals, 1978-1982. 
  • T296----M, a common mutation causing mild hemophilia B in the Amish and others: founder effect, variability in factor IX activity assays, and rapid carrier detection. 
  • Tailoring health programming to clergy: findings from a study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina. 
  • Targeting risk factors for reducing the racially disparate burden in breast cancer. 
  • Ten dimensions of health and their relationships with overall self-reported health and survival in a predominately religiously active elderly population: the cache county memory study. 
  • The Duke University Religion Index (DUREL): validation and reliability of the Farsi version. 
  • The Psychosocial and Clinical Well-Being of Women Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS. 
  • The Spiritual History Scale in four dimensions (SHS-4): validity and reliability. 
  • The availability of community ties predicts likelihood of peer referral for mammography: geographic constraints on viral marketing. 
  • The complex association between religious activities and functional limitations in older adults. 
  • The impact of country and culture on end-of-life care for injured patients: results from an international survey. 
  • The impact of religious practice and religious coping on geriatric depression. 
  • The relationship between parental religiosity and school age children's dietary behavior in Ningxia Province, China: A cross-sectional study. 
  • The relationship between religious activities and cigarette smoking in older adults. 
  • The relationship of religious involvement indicators and social support to current and past suicidality among depressed older adults. 
  • The role of geriatric palliative care in hospitalized older adults. 
  • The use of mind-body medicine and prayer among adult patients with chronic hepatitis C. 
  • Theodicies and professional quality of life in a nationally representative sample of chaplains in the veterans' health administration. 
  • Top Ten Things Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Hindus. 
  • Toward a more materialistic medicine: the value of authentic materialism within current and future medical practice. 
  • Training to Conduct Research on Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Commentary. 
  • Understanding disparities in donor behavior: race and gender differences in willingness to donate blood and cadaveric organs. 
  • Upward spirals of positive emotions and religious behaviors. 
  • Use of the Spiritual Development Framework in Conducting Spirituality and Health Research with Adolescents. 
  • Validation of the Duke Religion Index: DUREL (Portuguese version). 
  • Validation of the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) in Portuguese Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy. 
  • Validation of the Polish version of the Duke University Religion Index (PolDUREL). 
  • VanderWeele and Koenig Respond. 
  • VanderWeele and Koenig Respond. 
  • Whole body donation for medical science: a population-based study. 
  • Why gerontologists should care about empirical research on religion and health: transdisciplinary perspectives. 
  • Yopo, ethnicity and social change: a comparative analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva yopo uset. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Barton, Sarah Jean, Assistant Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Divinity School
  • Bielousova, Grazina, Instructor, Special Programs, Religious Studies
  • Bowler, Kate, Associate Professor of American Religious History, Divinity School
  • Campbell, Douglas, Professor of New Testament, Divinity School
  • Chapman, Stephen B., Associate Professor of Old Testament, Divinity School
  • Gasparowicz, Natalie, Student, History
  • Goodacre, Mark S., Frances Hill Fox Professor, Religious Studies
  • Kadivar, Mohsen, Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Religious Studies
  • Maddox, Randy L., William Kellon Quick Professor Emeritus of Theology and Methodist Studies, Divinity School
  • Matory, J. Lorand, Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
  • Meyers, Carol L., Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, Religious Studies
  • Miller, James, Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University, DKU Faculty
  • Ruth, John Lester, Research Professor of Christian Worship, Divinity School
  • Shah, Purnima, Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance, Dance Program
  • Sigal, Peter, Professor of History, History
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society
  • Sosin, Joshua D., Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Classical Studies
  • Staddon, John E. R., James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology & Neuroscience
  • Thielman, Samuel B., Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry