Spirituality

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Are you at peace?": one item to probe spiritual concerns at the end of life. 
  • "I should know better": the roles of relationships, spirituality, disclosure, stigma, and shame for older women living with HIV seeking support in the South. 
  • "It's medically proven!": Assessing the dissemination of religion and health research. 
  • "You just do your part. God will do the rest.": spirituality and culture in the medical encounter. 
  • A Biopsychosocial-spiritual model of chronic pain in adults with sickle cell disease 
  • A Descriptive Study of Chaplains' Code Blue Responses. 
  • A Pilot Study on Sleep Quality, Forgiveness, Religion, Spirituality, and General Health of Women Living in a Homeless Mission. 
  • A Preliminary Study Examining the Prevalence and Perceived Intensity of Morally Injurious Events in a Veterans Affairs Chaplaincy Spiritual Injury Support Group. 
  • 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 comparison of two spirituality instruments and their relationship with depression and quality of life in chronic heart failure. 
  • A leadership framework for culture change in health care. 
  • A pilot study on religiousness/spirituality and ADHD. 
  • A prospective study of religion/spirituality and depressive symptoms among adolescent psychiatric patients. 
  • A randomized controlled trial to assess effectiveness of a spiritually-based intervention to help chronically ill adults. 
  • A review of spiritual and religious measures in nursing research journals: 1995-1999. 
  • A spiritual problem? Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' interpretations of medically unexplained symptoms. 
  • Addressing Patient Emotional and Existential Needs During Serious Illness: Results of the Outlook Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • An 81-year-old woman with chronic illnesses and a strong faith. 
  • An assessment of US physicians' training in religion, spirituality, and medicine. 
  • Annotated bibliography on religion, spirituality and medicine. 
  • Applying a conceptual model for examining health-related quality of life in long-term breast cancer survivors: CALGB study 79804. 
  • Attention to inpatients' religious and spiritual concerns: predictors and association with patient satisfaction. 
  • Back to the future: The AMA and religion, 1961-1974. 
  • Beliefs in karma and reincarnation among survivors of violent trauma--a community survey. 
  • Burden and well-being among a diverse sample of cancer, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caregivers. 
  • By intuitions differently formed: how physicians assess and respond to spiritual issues in the clinical encounter. 
  • Cancer, Religious Philosophy, Death and Dying. 
  • Change in Sense of Nondual Awareness and Spiritual Awakening in Response to a Multidimensional Well-Being Program. 
  • Changes in religious coping and relapse to drug use among opioid-dependent patients following inpatient detoxification. 
  • Changes in spirituality partly explain health-related quality of life outcomes after Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. 
  • Characteristics of cancer patients presenting to an integrative medicine practice-based research network. 
  • China, Gender Issues, Medical Philosophy and Measurement Scales. 
  • Christianity, Family, Students, and COVID-19. 
  • Church attendance mediates the association between depressive symptoms and cognitive functioning among older Mexican Americans. 
  • Clinical implications of spirituality to mental health: review of evidence and practical guidelines. 
  • Clinician Perspectives Guiding Approach to Comprehensiveness of Palliative Care Assessment. 
  • Closeness to God among those doing God's work: a spiritual well-being measure for clergy. 
  • Commentary: A case for studying the relationship between religion and the practice of medicine. 
  • Commentary: why do research on spirituality and health, and what do the results mean? 
  • Conceptualising spirituality for medical research and health service provision. 
  • Concerns about measuring "spirituality" in research. 
  • Coordinating assessment of spiritual needs: a cross-walk of narrative and psychometric assessment tools used in palliative care. 
  • Coping as a mediator in the relationships of spiritual well-being to mental health in black women with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Correlates of quality of life-related outcomes in breast cancer patients participating in the Pathfinders pilot study. 
  • Could spirituality and religion promote stress resilience in survivors of childhood trauma? 
  • Crossing the secular divide: government and faith-based organizations as partners in health. 
  • Decreased symptoms of depression after mindfulness-based stress reduction: potential moderating effects of religiosity, spirituality, trait mindfulness, sex, and age. 
  • Demystifying Spiritual Care: An Interprofessional Approach for Teaching Residents and Hospital Chaplains to Work Together. 
  • Development and Implementation of an Educational Module to Increase Nurses' Comfort With Spiritual Care in an Inpatient Setting. 
  • Development and validation of the Psychological Adaptation Scale (PAS): use in six studies of adaptation to a health condition or risk. 
  • Differences in life satisfaction among older community-dwelling Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites. 
  • Do people turn to religion in times of stress?: an examination of change in religiousness among elderly, medically ill patients. 
  • Do preparation and life completion discussions improve functioning and quality of life in seriously ill patients? Pilot randomized control trial. 
  • Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved? 
  • Documenting presence: A descriptive study of chaplain notes in the intensive care unit. 
  • Effect of spiritual counseling on spiritual well-being in Iranian women with cancer: A randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effects of a 12-Month Educational Intervention on Clinicians' Attitudes/Practices Regarding the Screening Spiritual History. 
  • Effects of oxytocin administration on spirituality and emotional responses to meditation. 
  • Effects on Daily Spiritual Experiences of Religious Versus Conventional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression. 
  • Efficacy of an educational intervention on students' attitudes regarding spirituality in healthcare: a cohort study in the USA. 
  • Episcopal measure of faith tradition: a context-specific approach to measuring religiousness. 
  • Existential relatedness in light of eudemonic well-being and religious coping among middle-aged and older cardiac patients. 
  • Expert consensus on characteristics of wisdom: a Delphi method study. 
  • Explanatory attributions of anxiety and recovery in a study of kava. 
  • Exploring Culturally Responsive Religious and Spirituality Health Care Communications among African Americans with Advanced Heart Failure, Their Family Caregivers, and Clinicians. 
  • Exploring cancer support needs for older African-American men with prostate cancer. 
  • Exploring the Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Mental Health and Coping in a Group of Canadian Psychiatric Outpatients. 
  • Exploring the relationship between spirituality, coping, and pain. 
  • Exploring the vagueness of Religion & Spirituality in complex pediatric decision-making: a qualitative study. 
  • Faith, Family, Filiality, and Fate. 
  • Family Spirituality and Family Health Among Korean-American Elderly Couples. 
  • Frequency of attendance at religious services and mortality in a U.S. national cohort. 
  • From Bench to Bedside: Converting Placebo Research into Belief Activation. 
  • Got spirit? The spiritual climate scale, psychometric properties, benchmarking data and future directions. 
  • Health Care Professionals' Responses to Religious or Spiritual Statements by Surrogate Decision Makers During Goals-of-Care Discussions. 
  • Higher religiosity and spirituality are associated with ethnic group membership among middle-aged and older adults living with HIV. 
  • Hitting the target: why existing measures of "religiousness" are really reverse-scored measures of "secularism". 
  • How are religion and spirituality related to health? A study of physicians' perspectives. 
  • Impact of spirituality/religiosity on mortality: comparison with other health interventions. 
  • In reply to Cayley. 
  • Integrating Spirituality Into Outpatient Practice in the Adventist Health System. 
  • Integrating spirituality into the care of older adults. 
  • Integration of Spiritual Care in Hospital Care System in Iran. 
  • Interest among veterans in spiritually-oriented therapy for inner conflict/moral injury in the setting of PTSD. 
  • Introduction: spirituality and catastrophe. 
  • Is religious devotion relevant to the doctor-patient relationship? 
  • Knowledge and Perceptions Regarding Palliative Care Among Religious Leaders in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya: Survey and Focus Group Analysis. 
  • Limits and responsibilities of physicians addressing spiritual suffering in terminally ill patients. 
  • Loving-kindness meditation for chronic low back pain: results from a pilot trial. 
  • Measuring religiousness in health research: review and critique. 
  • Medical students, spirituality and religiosity--results from the multicenter study SBRAME. 
  • Mental Health, Clinical Practice and COVID-19. 
  • Mental Health, Islam, Clinical Issues and COVID-19. 
  • Mental disorders, religion and spirituality 1990 to 2010: a systematic evidence-based review. 
  • Moral Injury, Australian Veterans and the Role of Chaplains: An Exploratory Qualitative Study. 
  • Moral Injury, Religiosity, and Suicide Risk in U.S. Veterans and Active Duty Military with PTSD Symptoms. 
  • Neighborhood disorder, spiritual well-being, and parenting stress in African American women. 
  • Nurse-facilitated preparation and life completion interventions are acceptable and feasible in the Australian palliative care setting: results from a phase 2 trial. 
  • Nursing, Diabetes, Hemodialysis and COVID-19. 
  • Of These, Faith, Hope, and Love: Assessing and Providing for the Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs of Burn Patients. 
  • Operationalizing the Measuring What Matters Spirituality Quality Metric in a Population of Hospitalized, Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members. 
  • Patient-reported symptoms and quality of life 
in adults with acute leukemia: a systematic review. 
  • Patients', Staff, and Providers' Factual Knowledge About Hospital Chaplains and Association with Desire for Chaplain Services. 
  • Perspectives of Indian traditional and allopathic professionals on religion/spirituality and its role in medicine: basis for developing an integrative medicine program. 
  • Phase 2 pilot study of Pathfinders: a psychosocial intervention for cancer patients. 
  • Physician's role in addressing spiritual needs. 
  • Physicians' Opinions on Engaging Patients' Religious and Spiritual Concerns: A National Survey. 
  • Physicians' beliefs about faith-based treatments for alcoholism. 
  • Physicians' observations and interpretations of the influence of religion and spirituality on health. 
  • 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. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Moral Injury Symptoms in Health Care Professionals. 
  • Private prayer and optimism in middle-aged and older patients awaiting cardiac surgery. 
  • Professional Quality of Life and Changes in Spirituality Among VHA Chaplains: A Mixed Methods Investigation. 
  • Protective connections and educational attainment among young adults with childhood-onset chronic illness. 
  • Provision of spiritual support to patients with advanced cancer by religious communities and associations with medical care at the end of life. 
  • Psychometric Evaluation of the Filipino Versions of the Duke University Religion Index and the Spiritual Coping Strategies Scale in Filipino Hemodialysis Patients. 
  • Psychometric Validation and Translation of Religious and Spiritual Measures. 
  • Psychometric properties of the Persian spiritual coping strategies scale in hemodialysis patients. 
  • Psychosocial protective factors and suicidal ideation: Results from a national longitudinal study of veterans. 
  • Randomness, attributions of arousal, and belief in god. 
  • Rationale for Spiritually Oriented Cognitive Processing Therapy for Moral Injury in Active Duty Military and Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. 
  • Re-examining definitions of spirituality in nursing research. 
  • Re: The Sidney Project™. 
  • Relationships of religion and spirituality to glycemic control in Black women with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Relevance of religion and spirituality in German patients with chronic diseases. 
  • Religion and depression in older medical inpatients. 
  • Religion and medicine IV: religion, physical health, and clinical implications. 
  • Religion, Spirituality and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A Matched Case-Control Study and Meta-Analysis. 
  • Religion, clinicians, and the integration of complementary and alternative medicines. 
  • Religion, sense of calling, and the practice of medicine: findings from a national survey of primary care physicians and psychiatrists. 
  • 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 health. 
  • Religion, spirituality and health: an American physician's response. 
  • Religion, spirituality and medicine in Australia: research and clinical practice. 
  • Religion, spirituality and medicine: the beginning of a new era. 
  • Religion, spirituality and mental health in the West and the Middle East. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and acute care hospitalization and long-term care use by older patients. 
  • 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 medicine: how are they related and what does it mean? 
  • Religion, spirituality, and medicine: psychiatrists' and other physicians' differing observations, interpretations, and clinical approaches. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and medicine: research findings and implications for clinical practice. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and mental health of U.S. military veterans: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and mental health: current controversies and future directions. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and mental health: what we know and why this is a tough topic to research. 
  • 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 their relevance to medicine: an update. 
  • Religion/Spirituality and adolescent psychiatric symptoms: a review. 
  • Religion/spirituality and depression: what can we learn from empirical studies? 
  • Religiosity and Physician Lifestyle from a Family Health Strategy. 
  • Religiosity and Telomere Length in Colorectal Cancer Patients in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Religiosity and mental health in southern, community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Religiosity may help preserve the cortisol rhythm in women with stress-related illness. 
  • Religiosity, depression, and quality of life in bipolar disorder: a two-year prospective study. 
  • Religiosity, spirituality, and end-of-life planning: a single-site survey of medical inpatients. 
  • Religiosity/spirituality and pain in patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Religiosity/spirituality of German doctors in private practice and likelihood of addressing R/S issues with patients. 
  • Religious Involvement, Anxiety/Depression, and PTSD Symptoms in US Veterans and Active Duty Military. 
  • Religious and spiritual beliefs of gynecologic oncologists may influence medical decision making. 
  • Religious and spiritual factors and the consequences of trauma: a review and model of the interrelationship. 
  • Religious attendance reduces cognitive decline among older women with high levels of depressive symptoms. 
  • Religious beliefs affect grieving after pregnancy loss. 
  • Religious beliefs, practices and mental health outcomes: what is the research question? 
  • Religious characteristics of U.S. physicians: a national survey. 
  • Religious coping and quality of life among individuals living with schizophrenia. 
  • Religious coping methods as predictors of psychological, physical and spiritual outcomes among medically ill elderly patients: a two-year longitudinal study. 
  • Religious involvement is associated with greater purpose, optimism, generosity and gratitude in persons with major depression and chronic medical illness. 
  • Religious/spiritual characteristics of indian and indonesian physicians and their acceptance of spirituality in health care: a cross-cultural comparison. 
  • Religiousness affects mental health, pain and quality of life in older people in an outpatient rehabilitation setting. 
  • Religiousness and mental health: a review. 
  • Religiousness and spirituality in fibromyalgia and chronic pain patients. 
  • Remembering 9/11, Moral Injury, COVID-19 and Measuring Religion, Spirituality and Health. 
  • Research on religion, spirituality, and mental health: a review. 
  • Resilience, spirituality, distress and tactics for battered women's conflict resolution 
  • 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). 
  • Review of Religious Variables in Advance Care Planning for End-of-Life Care: Consideration of Faith as a New Construct. 
  • Risks, Benefits, and Recommendations for Pastoral Care on Inpatient Psychiatric Units: A Systematic Review. 
  • Rowe and Kahn's model of successful aging revisited: positive spirituality--the forgotten factor. 
  • STUDENTJAMA. Taking a spiritual history. 
  • Satisfaction With Life, Coping, and Spirituality Among Urban Families. 
  • Section introduction: spirituality, depression & suicide. 
  • Selected annotated bibliography on depression and suicide. 
  • Self-transcendent positive emotions increase spirituality through basic world assumptions. 
  • Seriously ill patients' discussions of preparation and life completion: an intervention to assist with transition at the end of life. 
  • Sexual Orientation, Religious Coping, and Drug Use in a Sample of HIV-Infected African-American Men Living in the Southern USA. 
  • Socio-economic inequalities in suffering at the end of life among advanced cancer patients: results from the APPROACH study in five Asian countries. 
  • 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 beliefs and barriers among managed care practitioners. 
  • Spiritual care at the end of life: what is it and who does it? 
  • Spiritual considerations in suicide and depression among the elderly. 
  • Spiritual coping, religiosity and quality of life: a study on Muslim patients undergoing haemodialysis. 
  • Spiritual needs of couples facing pregnancy termination because of fetal anomalies. 
  • Spiritual turning points and perceived control over the life course. 
  • Spirituality across the lifespan. 
  • Spirituality and care at the end of life. 
  • Spirituality and caring for older family members. 
  • Spirituality and depression: a case study. 
  • Spirituality and depression: a look at the evidence. 
  • Spirituality and depressive symptoms in a racially diverse US sample of community-dwelling adults. 
  • Spirituality and distress in sheltered battered women 
  • Spirituality and health in the curricula of medical schools in Brazil. 
  • Spirituality and health: empirically based reflections on recovery. 
  • Spirituality and lifestyle: what clinicians need to know. 
  • Spirituality and mental health: challenges and opportunities. 
  • Spirituality and psychological well-being: testing a theory of family interdependence among family caregivers and their elders. 
  • Spirituality and religion in outpatients with schizophrenia: a multi-site comparative study of Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. 
  • Spirituality and religion in psychiatry practice: parameters and implications. 
  • Spirituality in Patients With Heart Failure. 
  • Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health. 
  • Spirituality in geriatric psychiatry. 
  • Spirituality in medical school curricula: findings from a national survey. 
  • Spirituality, Coping, and Resilience Among Rural Residents Living with Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Spirituality, Palliative Care, and the Intensive Care Unit. A New Approach. 
  • Spirituality, Religiosity, and Health: a Comparison of Physicians' Attitudes in Brazil, India, and Indonesia. 
  • Spirituality, depression and suicide: a cross-cultural perspective. 
  • Spirituality, depression, and the elderly. 
  • Spirituality, religion, and clinical outcomes in patients recovering from an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research Part I: Definitions, Measurement, and Outcomes. 
  • State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research Part II: Screening, Assessment, and Interventions. 
  • State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research: Research Landscape and Future Directions. 
  • Teachers' and Parents' Perspectives on a Curricular Subject of "Religion and Spirituality" for Indian Schools: A Pilot Study Toward School Mental Health Program. 
  • The Association Between Religiosity, Spirituality, and Medication Adherence Among Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases: A Systematic Review of the Literature. 
  • The BENEFIT through spirituality/religiosity scale--a 6-item measure for use in health outcome studies. 
  • The NERSH Questionnaire and Pool of Data from 12 Countries: Development and Description. 
  • The Role of Religiousness/Spirituality and Social Networks in Predicting Depressive Symptoms among Older Korean Americans. 
  • The Self-Directed Biological Transformation Initiative and Well-Being. 
  • The WORD (wholeness, oneness, righteousness, deliverance): a faith-based weight-loss program utilizing a community-based participatory research approach. 
  • The association between oral health and general health and quality of life in older male cancer patients. 
  • The association between spiritual and religious involvement and depressive symptoms in a Canadian population. 
  • The effect of prayer on depression and anxiety: maintenance of positive influence one year after prayer intervention. 
  • The impact of religious practice and religious coping on geriatric depression. 
  • The importance of spirituality/religion and health-related quality of life among individuals with HIV/AIDS. 
  • The influence of spiritual beliefs and practices on the treatment preferences of African Americans: a review of the literature. 
  • The palliative care in heart failure trial: rationale and design. 
  • The relationship between spirituality and depressive symptoms: testing psychosocial mechanisms. 
  • The role of internalized homonegativity in the faith and psychological health of lesbians. 
  • The spiritual history in outpatient practice: attitudes and practices of health professionals in the Adventist Health System. 
  • The spiritual history. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Spirituality in Serious Illness. 
  • Training to Conduct Research on Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Commentary. 
  • Trajectories of Religious Change From Adolescence to Adulthood, and Demographic, Environmental, and Psychiatric Correlates. 
  • Typologies of religiousness/spirituality: implications for health and well-being. 
  • Unmet spiritual care needs impact emotional and spiritual well-being in advanced cancer patients. 
  • Upward spirals of positive emotions and religious behaviors. 
  • Use of the Spiritual Development Framework in Conducting Spirituality and Health Research with Adolescents. 
  • Using leadership and advocacy to improve cancer pain management--based on a presentation at the cancer pain, suffering and spirituality course. 
  • Validation of the Belief Into Action Scale (BIAC) in Portuguese Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy. 
  • Validation of the Persian version of the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES) in Pregnant Women: A Proper Tool to Assess Spirituality Related to Mental Health. 
  • What Should Physicians and Chaplains Do When a Patient Believes God Wants Him to Suffer? 
  • What physicians should know about spirituality and chronic pain. 
  • Which domains of spirituality are associated with anxiety and depression in patients with advanced illness? 
  • Why John wasn't healed by prayer: perspectives across disciplines. 
  • [Prayers for patients with internal and cardiological diseases--an applicable therapeutic method?]. 
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  • Nieuwsma, Jason A, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences