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Harold G. Koenig

Harold G. Koenig

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
harold.koenig@duke.edu
Box 3400 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
Room 1501 Duke South, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Psychiatric problems in medical patients relevant to primary care physicians and mental health providers.

Journal Article International journal of psychiatry in medicine · January 2025 Full text Cite

The Effect of the Holy Quran Recitation on Inflammatory Markers in Hemodialysis Patients in Iran: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2024 Increased inflammation is a common complication in chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients. Addressing the psychological symptoms of patients may help reduce inflammation and its negative impact on the body. Considering the calming effects of listening to the H ... Full text Link to item Cite

The prevalence of existential anxiety and its association with depression, general anxiety, and stress in Saudi university students

Journal Article Middle East Current Psychiatry · December 1, 2024 Background: Existential anxiety (EA) is an expression of loneliness. Although depression, anxiety, and stress have been extensively studied worldwide, research on EA in the sociocultural context of the Arab–Muslim society is scarce. This study aimed to det ... Full text Cite

Poland, Public Health, Chaplains, Clergy, Mindfulness and Prayer.

Journal Article Journal of religion and health · December 2024 This issue commences with a bibliometric analysis of the top 100 most cited articles on religion. It then presents the first of a two-part series relating to research from Poland and progresses to examine the relevance of religion and spirituality to publi ... Full text Cite

Mental health needs and barriers to service in the Chinese American community: insights gained from focus groups.

Journal Article Ethn Health · November 2024 OBJECTIVES: Mental health remains an unmet need among Chinese Americans. This study aims to identify specific needs and strategies that may address the needs. DESIGN: A total of 55 Chinese Americans consented and participated in online focus groups conduct ... Full text Link to item Cite

Good for Coping, Not for Eudaimonia: The Effectiveness of a Spiritual/Religious Intervention in the Healthcare of Breast Cancer Patients

Journal Article Pastoral Psychology · October 1, 2024 This study examined the effectiveness of a spiritual/religious intervention on religious coping and eudaimonic psychological well-being in breast cancer survivors. A quasi-experimental design with pre- and post-tests and a control group was used to study 6 ... Full text Cite

Religion, Spirituality and Health Research: Warning of Contaminated Scales.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2024 The relationship between religiosity, spirituality and health has received increasing attention in the academic literature. Studies involving quantitative measurement of religiosity and/or spirituality (R/S) and health have reported many positive associati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mild Cognitive Impairment, Religiosity, Spirituality and all-Cause Mortality Among Chinese Older Adults in Ethnic Minority Communities.

Journal Article Journal of religion and health · October 2024 The relationship between mild cognitive impairment (MCI), religiosity and/or spirituality (R/S), and all-cause mortality among older adults has yet to be clarified. The current study aims to examine this relationship using a longitudinal cohort from ethnic ... Full text Cite

Nutrition, Chronic Care, Measurement Scales and COVID-19.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2024 In the year of the Olympics (Paris, 2024), this issue of JORH explores nutrition and chronic care, offers a caution regarding the use of religiosity and spiritual measurement scales, and revisits the topic of COVID-19. While the latter has been rapidly dec ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of social support and religiosity/spirituality on recovery from acute cardiac events and heart surgery in Switzerland.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · September 2024 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of social support and religiosity/spirituality (R/S) on the recovery from an acute cardiac event or cardiac surgery during cardiac rehabilitation (CR). METHODS: In this prospective study, a conven ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Intervention Program Using the Health Belief Model to Modify Lifestyle in Coronary Heart Disease: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Journal Article Int J Behav Med · August 2024 BACKGROUND: Most effective interventions to control coronary heart disease (CHD) and prevent negative outcomes involve behavioral modification. This study examined how such modification based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) might improve lifestyle and cli ... Full text Link to item Cite

Faith and Health in Israel, Türkiye and the USA.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2024 This issue of JORH focuses upon faith and health within three nations that have contributed a great deal in terms of religion and health research during this century-namely Israel, Türkiye and the USA. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perspectives of Patients with Mental Health Disorders on Integrating the Spirituality and Religion into Psychiatric Assessments: A Study in Iran

Journal Article Journal of Iranian Medical Council · July 1, 2024 Background: In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on exploring the influence of spirituality/religion on the management of mental health disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the viewpoints of Iranian patients with mental health ... Full text Cite

Nurses, Clergy, Chaplains, Parkinson's Disease, Workplace Religiosity, Women's Health and Family Issues.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2024 This issue of JORH explores a broad range of topics looking at the professions of nursing, clergy and chaplains. This issue also concludes the series on Parkinson's disease (Part 2), and for the first time, JORH presents a collation of articles relating to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious involvement and psychological well-being in the Middle East.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · May 2024 OBJECTIVE: There is growing evidence that religious involvement is associated with better mental health in Christian Western countries. Whether the same is true in Middle Eastern countries whose populations are largely Muslim is less clear. The present stu ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Effectiveness of Spirituality-Centered Cognitive Therapy on Body Image, Sexual Function, Illness Perception and Intrusive Thoughts in Iranian Women after Mastectomy

Journal Article Religions · May 1, 2024 Spirituality-centered cognitive therapy refers to the way in which people search for and express the meaning and purpose of their lives, as well as experience connection with themselves, others, nature, and spirituality. This study aimed to determine the e ... Full text Cite

Should Physician-Assisted Suicide or Euthanasia be Legalized in the United States? A Medically Informed Perspective.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2024 There is a pressing debate in the United States concerning the implied physicians' obligation to do no harm and the status of legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Key issues that underpin the debate are important to consider. These include: (1) fou ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual/Religious Readjustments Among Iranian War Veterans

Journal Article Pastoral Psychology · April 1, 2024 There is growing evidence that the spiritual/religious (S/R) beliefs of war veterans change, even years after the war. Researchers need to explore these changes in different cultures and religions. This study therefore identified S/R changes in Iranian war ... Full text Cite

An Exploratory Qualitative Analysis of the Stanford-Templeton Convenings on Islam and Suicide.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2024 For over 70 years, studies have reported lower rates of completed suicide in Muslim-majority countries and individuals who identify as Muslim. To this point, the mechanisms underlying the relationship between Islam and lower risk of suicide remain understu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Tribal Healing, Suicide, Ethical Issues, Cancer and Measuring Religiosity and Spirituality.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2024 This issue of JORH considers the 'good, the bad and the ugly' of tribal or traditional healers, as well as articles relating to ethical challenges due to contemporary medicine and environmental issues. The concluding series on suicide (Part 2) is also fina ... Full text Link to item Cite

Longitudinal association of spirituality with depressive symptom trajectories among older adults in mainland China.

Journal Article Int J Geriatr Psychiatry · March 2024 OBJECTIVES: The relationship between spirituality and depressive symptoms among the Chinese elderly is not well known. The current study explores this relationship using longitudinal data and trajectory modeling of depressive symptoms. METHODS: A longitudi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Schizophrenia or Possession? A Rejoinder to Irmak.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2024 In this rejoinder, I comment on Irmak's 2014 article titled "Schizophrenia or Possession?" published in the Journal of Religion and Health  (Irmak, 2014; JORH 53(3):773-777. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-012-9673-y ). After providing a brief overview of t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality, Mental Health, and COVID-19.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2024 This issue of JORH presents a broad range of articles that consider spirituality and spiritual care from various international perspectives. It also looks at a diverse range of articles relating to mental health disorders and addictions. Lastly, this issue ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gratitude and Religiosity in Psychiatric Inpatients with Depression.

Journal Article Depress Res Treat · 2024 BACKGROUND: Gratitude and religiousness/spirituality are increasingly recognized resources that have potential influence on psychological states such as depression. However, only few studies have investigated this relationship in psychiatric patients. OBJE ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Response to the Paal et al. Rejoinder: Religiosity and Risk of Parkinson's Disease in England and the USA.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2023 This commentary provides a response to the rejoinder by Paal et al. (Journal of Religion and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01726-y , 2023), regarding the research of Otaiku (Journal of Religion and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Faith-Based Organizations' Support of Veteran Congregants at Risk for Mental Health Conditions and Suicide: A Qualitative Study of Clergy Experiences in Los Angeles County.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2023 Faith-based organizations (FBOs) are often "gatekeepers" to mental health care for congregants at risk of mental illness and suicide, especially U.S. military Veterans, but data to inform better collaboration are needed. We conducted focus groups with cler ... Full text Link to item Cite

Light Personality Style and Moral Injury Among Chinese Health Professionals.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2023 Moral injury has attracted attention widely in various occupations, particularly health professionals. Personality traits involve the professional values in clinical decision-making associated with mental outcomes. The current study examines the relationsh ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pastoral Narrative Disclosure: The Development and Evaluation of an Australian Chaplaincy Intervention Strategy for Addressing Moral Injury.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2023 This paper describes the development and initial chaplaincy user evaluation of 'Pastoral Narrative Disclosure' (PND) as a rehabilitation strategy developed for chaplains to address moral injury among veterans. PND is an empirically informed and integrated ... Full text Link to item Cite

Suicide, Moral Injury, Parkinson's Disease, Diabetes and Dialysis.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2023 This issue of JORH presents the first of a two-part series specifically exploring suicide. Research relating to moral injury is also included-a topic which has previously been discussed within earlier editions of JORH and an issue that is increasingly reco ... Full text Link to item Cite

The relationship between combat exposure and suicide risk in U.S. military veterans: Exploring the role of posttraumatic stress symptoms and religious coping.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · November 15, 2023 BACKGROUND: Rising suicide rates in the U.S. veteran population are a growing concern. Combat exposure has been identified as a potential predictor of suicide risk, but factors that may mediate the relation between combat exposure and suicide risk, and the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric Properties of the Spiritual Coping Strategies Scale-Chinese Version (SCSS-C) for Adults in Taiwan.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2023 This study examined the psychometric properties of the Spiritual Coping Strategies Scale-Chinese version (SCSS-C) in Taiwanese adults. A convenience sample of 232 participants in Taiwan completed an online survey, and 45 of the 232 participants completed t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Care of the Aged, Women's Health, and Measuring Religion, Spirituality and Health.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2023 This issue of JORH explores various concerns related to the care of the elderly within a number of countries (namely China, India, Iran, Israel, Turkey, USA). Issues relating to Women's Health are also considered across the life span but particularly with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritually Integrated Cognitive Processing Therapy for Moral Injury in the Setting of PTSD: Initial Evidence of Therapeutic Efficacy.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · September 1, 2023 After defining the syndrome of moral injury (MI), reviewing its relationship to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and examining its psychological consequences and impact on functioning, we describe a new psychotherapeutic treatment for MI called spirit ... Full text Link to item Cite

The moral injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and suicidal behaviors in health professionals 1 year after the COVID-19 pandemic peak in China.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · September 2023 OBJECTIVE: Moral COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to explore the relationship between moral injury (MI), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicidal behaviors approximately 1 year after the pandemic peaked in mainland China. METHODS: An online sur ... Full text Link to item Cite

Medical Practice, the Church and COVID-19.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2023 This issue of JORH explores the importance of religion and spirituality in medical practice, as well as research relating to the Church and its clergy, and finally the lingering effects of COVID-19. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Alzheimer's Behavioral and Psychiatric Burden in Saudi Arabia: Validation of the Saudi Version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory.

Journal Article Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord · July 2023 BACKGROUND: The burden of behavioral and psychiatric symptoms in dementia (BPSD) has not been characterized in Saudi patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). Moreover, the Saudi version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (SNPI) has not been validated. OBJECTIV ... Full text Link to item Cite

"Spiritual Readiness" in the U.S. Military: A Neglected Component of Warrior Readiness.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2023 Recent events have led to concerns about whether U.S. service members are "ready" to engage in combat operations. With most discussions now focused on military readiness, attention paid to warfighter readiness may have fallen behind. Service members typica ... Full text Link to item Cite

Person-Centered Mindfulness: A Culturally and Spiritually Sensitive Approach to Clinical Practice.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2023 Mindfulness meditation is rapidly being integrated into many different forms of counseling and psychotherapy, and there is a growing evidence base for its effectiveness. It is important to understand the spiritual roots of mindfulness, and to apply it in a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Chaplaincy, Clergy, Prayer, Cancer and Measuring Religion and Health.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2023 This third issue of JORH for 2023 revisits a number of themes previously highlighted in JORH, along with the addition of two new themes. Since JORH's first special issue on 'Chaplaincy' (JORH, 2022, 61:2), this area of research within JORH has now flourish ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations between Prayer and Mental Health among Christian Youth in the Philippines

Journal Article Religions · June 1, 2023 Religion/Spirituality (R/S) has been associated with mental health. Although most Filipinos are Christian, little research has been done on how R/S affects their mental health. To address this research gap, an open-ended questionnaire was conducted on fort ... Full text Cite

The Effect of Integrated Religious Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IRCBT) on Psychological Symptoms of Women with Breast Cancer

Journal Article Mankind Quarterly · June 1, 2023 Breast cancer exacerbates psychological problems and raises existential concerns, and decreases hope and quality of life. The aim of the study was to investigate the efficacy of integrated religious cognitive behavioral therapy (IRCBT) on psychological sym ... Full text Cite

Mind-Body dualism and medical student attitudes toward mental illness in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · May 2023 BACKGROUND: Philosophical beliefs regarding the origin of mental illness may underlie resistance to psychiatric treatment and affect attitudes toward the mentally ill. AIM: The present study sought to: (1) identify characteristics of medical students who h ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual needs in Denmark: a population-based cross-sectional survey linked to Danish national registers.

Journal Article Lancet Reg Health Eur · May 2023 BACKGROUND: Spiritual aspects of the human condition may give rise to spiritual pain and suffering, especially in the face of illness or difficult life situations. A growing volume of research documents the effects of religiosity, spirituality, meaning, an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pediatrics, Students, Allied Health and COVID-19.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2023 This second issue of JORH for 2023 considers research relating to (1) pediatrics, (2) students, (3) various allied health professions and their related practices, and lastly, (4) COVID-19. An additional reminder is also provided to readers on the call for ... Full text Link to item Cite

Development of a Spiritual Health Curriculum: An Applied Study in Iran

Journal Article Shiraz E Medical Journal · April 1, 2023 Background: Today, prioritizing the spiritual well-being of medical students holds significant importance in numerous countries worldwide. An educational curriculum serves as a comprehensive written document that delineates educational objectives, con- ten ... Full text Cite

Psychiatric issues in primary care.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · March 2023 Full text Link to item Cite

Chaplaincy, Judaism, Ukraine, COVID-19 and JORH Jubilee.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2023 This first issue of JORH for 2023 considers (1) the ministry of chaplains, (2) Judaism, (3) the people of war-torn Ukraine, (4) the ongoing saga of COVID-19 and, on a happier note, (5) we celebrate a belated jubilee by presenting a bibliometric analysis of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Health education using the theory of planned behavior to modify ergonomic posture in hospital computer users: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Int Arch Occup Environ Health · January 2023 OBJECTIVE: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are prevalent in those who use computers, and education using ergonomic principles may be helpful to prevent such conditions. The present study sought to identify how an educational intervention based on th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Editorial.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · January 2023 Full text Link to item Cite

The Role of Religious Culture in Medical Professionalism in a Muslim Arab Society.

Journal Article Perspect Med Educ · 2023 PURPOSE: Calls have been made to integrate concepts and practices derived from Muslim culture into medical professionalism in Muslim societies. Little is known about how these religious cultural concepts (RCCs) influence medical practice and education. Thi ... Full text Link to item Cite

"Electronic Church" 2.0: Are Virtual and In-Person Attendance Associated with Mental and Physical Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Journal Article Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review · January 1, 2023 Over the past four decades, studies have consistently shown that regular attendance at religious services is associated with better mental and physical health. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many congregations paused in-person religious services an ... Full text Cite

Islam and Suicide: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review

Journal Article Spirituality in Clinical Practice · January 1, 2023 Despite the efforts of mental health experts to understand and predict suicide risk, rates of suicide continue to climb worldwide. The existing literature points to religion as a protective factor against suicide, but most studies to date have focused on C ... Full text Cite

Psychometric Properties of a Persian Version of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) in Military Personnel

Journal Article Military Behavioral Health · January 1, 2023 Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a widely used measure of stress. However, the dimensions of this scale are not clearly defined, and there is little information on the use of the scale in military personnel. This study examined the psychometric properties o ... Full text Cite

HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND HEALTH: THIRD EDITION

Book · January 1, 2023 The 2001 (first) edition of this Handbook was a comprehensive review of history, research, and discussions on religion and health through the year 2000. The Appendix listed 1,200 separate quantitative studies on religion and health each rated in quality on ... Full text Cite

Development and Psychometric Assessment of the COVID-19 Health Literacy Scale: Preliminary Testing and Factor Structure

Journal Article Journal of Health Literacy · December 1, 2022 Background and Objective: Improving the health literacy in the different populations regarding COVID-19 may be useful in the control of its prevalence. This study examined the psychometric properties of a newly developed disease-specific measure of health ... Full text Cite

Cancer, Religious Philosophy, Death and Dying.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2022 This final issue of JORH for 2022 revisits the topics of (1) cancer, (2) religious philosophy, and (3) uniquely collates a number of papers discussing the theme of death and dying-which seems an appropriate topic given the conclusion and celebration of lif ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Association Between Religiosity, Spirituality, and Medication Adherence Among Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2022 This systematic review aimed to summarize the literature on the relationship between religiosity or spirituality (R/S) and medication adherence among patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and to describe the nature and extent of the studies evaluati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental Health, Islam, Clinical Issues and COVID-19.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2022 In this fifth issue of the Journal of Religion and Health for 2022, four key themes are revisited: (1) mental health, (2) Islam, (3) various clinical issues relating to religiosity and/or spirituality and (4) the ongoing concerns of COVID-19. ... Full text Link to item Cite

China, Gender Issues, Medical Philosophy and Measurement Scales.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2022 In this fourth issue of the Journal of Religion and Health for 2022, four key themes are explored: (1) religious and spiritual issues in China, (2) gender-related issues affecting communities, couples, women and men, (3) a multitude of philosophical perspe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health.

Journal Article JAMA · July 12, 2022 IMPORTANCE: Despite growing evidence, the role of spirituality in serious illness and health has not been systematically assessed. OBJECTIVE: To review evidence concerning spirituality in serious illness and health and to identify implications for patient ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nursing, Diabetes, Hemodialysis and COVID-19.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2022 Four key themes are explored in this third issue of the Journal of Religion and Health for 2022: (1) the lead topic for this issue considers the work and spiritual care provided by nurses, which is followed by a series of articles on the subject areas of ( ... Full text Link to item Cite

An analysis of age-standardized suicide rates in Muslim-majority countries in 2000-2019.

Journal Article BMC Public Health · May 4, 2022 BACKGROUND: This study examines the 20-year trend of suicide in 46 Muslim-majority countries throughout the world and compares their suicide rates and trends with the global average. Ecological-level associations between the proportion of the Muslim popula ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moral Injury, Betrayal and Retribution: Australian Veterans and the Role of Chaplains.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2022 This paper presents additional qualitative results from Phase 1 of a larger study examining potentially morally injurious events/experiences (PMIE) and/or moral injury (MI) among Australian veterans (Hodgson et al. in J Relig Health 60(5):3061-3089, 2021). ... Full text Link to item Cite

Chaplaincy, Cancer, Aged Care and COVID-19.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2022 Four key topics are explored in this second issue of the Journal of Religion and Health for 2022. Following a condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, (1) the lead topic for this issue forms a special section regarding contemporary chaplaincy, whic ... Full text Link to item Cite

An educational intervention using the health belief model for improvement of oral health behavior in grade-schoolers: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article BMC Oral Health · March 27, 2022 BACKGROUND: Oral health problems especially dental caries are common in school children, and education programs may help to prevent these conditions. The aim of current study was to examine the effects of an educational program based on a Health Belief Mod ... Full text Link to item Cite

Determinants of health-related quality of life in Iranian patients after recovery from COVID-19: Demographic influences and insomnia

Journal Article International Journal of Public Health Science · March 1, 2022 The current study sought to identify factors that may affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients recovering from COVID-19 infection in Iran. In a cross-sectional study 258 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, participants completed a questionna ... Full text Cite

Spiritual Healing: A Triple Scoping Review of the Impact of Spirituality on Burn Injuries, Wounds, and Critical Care.

Journal Article Eur Burn J · February 24, 2022 Burn patients are unique because their recovery requires prolonged hospital admissions, often complicated by a myriad of medical and surgical complications as well as psychological and emotional challenges. Religion and spirituality have been linked to imp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental Health, Clinical Practice and COVID-19.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2022 Three topics are explored in this first issue of the Journal of Religion and Health for 2022, namely: (1) mental health and religion, (2) clinical practice issues and the relevance of religion/spirituality, and finally (3) the continuing and expanding publ ... Full text Link to item Cite

Islam and Mental Health: translation, book review, and commentary by religious scholars and mental health professionals

Journal Article Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health · January 1, 2022 The book “Islam and Mental Health” seeks to examine Islam as a resource and a liability for mental health among Muslims. This paper describes the translation of this book into Persian, examines how mental health professionals in Iran view its contents and ... Full text Cite

ADHD, Religiosity, and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Adolescence and Adulthood.

Journal Article J Atten Disord · January 2022 OBJECTIVE: Religiosity has been repeatedly proposed as protective in the development of depression, sociopathy and addictions. ADHD frequently co-occurs with these same conditions. Although ADHD symptoms may affect religious practice, religiosity in ADHD r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms: Prevalence and Risk Factors in an Arab Middle Eastern Population.

Journal Article Int J Gen Med · 2022 BACKGROUND: The present study examined the prevalence of and risk factors for symptoms of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) in the general population of Jeddah, a large port city in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: This cross-sectional study surveyed a convenience samp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prevalence and Correlates of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder among College Students in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Saudi J Med Med Sci · 2022 BACKGROUND: Childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is commonly diagnosed in Saudi Arabia, but there is negligible evidence regarding adult ADHD in college students. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and correlates of ADHD among unde ... Full text Link to item Cite

The psychometric properties of the Persian version of the moral injury symptoms scale-health care professionals version.

Journal Article Front Psychol · 2022 BACKGROUND: Health care professionals face a number of problems during crises, such as the COVID-19. Studies addressed the prevalence of moral injury among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak. Lack of a valid standard of moral injury amon ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Skin Picking Disorder Symptoms Among Adults in an Arab Middle Eastern Population: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Journal Article Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol · 2022 INTRODUCTION: Skin Picking Disorder (SPD) is a skin-related disease, also recognized as psychogenic excoriation, dermatillomania, or excoriation disorder. SPD is defined as a habitual picking of skin, which in turn harms skin tissue. Given the paucity of i ... Full text Link to item Cite

A spiritual intervention to reduce stress, anxiety and depression in pregnant women: Randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Health Care Women Int · December 2021 We assessed the efficacy of a spiritually-integrated cognitive-behavioral educational group intervention for reducing stress, anxiety, depression, and blood pressure during pregnancy and improving delivery outcomes. A randomized controlled trial was conduc ... Full text Link to item Cite

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.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · December 1, 2021 While religion and spirituality (R/S) have been linked to positive mental health outcomes, most studies have employed cross-sectional designs, which do not allow one to evaluate the utility of R/S in predicting these outcomes. To address this gap, this stu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Christianity, Family, Students, and COVID-19.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2021 Four substantial topics are explored in this issue of the Journal of Religion and Health, namely: (1) Christianity, (2) family and faith dynamics, (3) the spiritual and religious experiences of students from Islamic, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Jewish ... Full text Link to item Cite

Morally Injurious Experiences and Emotions of Health Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic Before Vaccine Availability.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · November 1, 2021 IMPORTANCE: Moral injury in health care professionals (HPs) has worsened over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The trauma and burnout associated with moral injury has profound implications for the mental health of HPs. OBJECTIVE: To explore the potenti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk factors for ADHD and comorbid psychiatric, academic and behavior problems among primary school students in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · November 2021 Risk factors for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), psychiatric, and classroom academic/behavioral problems were examined in 929 students grades 1-6 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Teachers identified ADHD by completing the Vanderbilt ADHD scale. Co ... Full text Link to item Cite

Validation of the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) in Portuguese Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2021 Religion is one of the strategies used to cope with life stressful events, particularly in cancer patients. This study aimed to translate, adapt and validate the 5-item Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) into European Portuguese. This is a cross-sectio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessing Religious Commitment in a Multicultural Inpatient Setting: A Psychometric Evaluation of the 10-item Belief into Action Scale.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2021 Religious and spiritual (R/S) issues impact medical decision-making, particularly among highly R/S populations, for whom existing measures have limitations in identifying levels of R/S commitment. The Belief into Action (BIAc) scale was designed for this p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment of Moral Injury in U.S. Veterans with PTSD Using a Structured Chaplain Intervention.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2021 Moral injury is a complex phenomenon characterized by spiritual, psychological, and moral distress caused by actions or acts of omission inconsistent with an individual's moral and ethical values. We present two cases from an ongoing randomized controlled ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moral Injury: An Increasingly Recognized and Widespread Syndrome.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2021 Moral injury (MI), originally discussed in relationship to transgressing moral beliefs and values during wartime among military personnel, has expanded beyond this context to include similar emotions experienced by healthcare professionals, first responder ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric Validation and Translation of Religious and Spiritual Measures.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2021 Scale development, validation, and translation are complicated and often arduous procedures that involve considerable cost, time, personnel, and skills necessary to perform the complex statistical analyses required. The need to follow a standard procedure ... Full text Link to item Cite

Remembering 9/11, Moral Injury, COVID-19 and Measuring Religion, Spirituality and Health.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2021 Four key themes are covered in this issue of JORH, namely: (1) the catastrophic events of 11 September 2001, (2) the syndrome of moral injury, (3) the ongoing calamity of COVID-19, and finally, (4) the validation, translation and use of measurement instrum ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moral Injury, Australian Veterans and the Role of Chaplains: An Exploratory Qualitative Study.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2021 Military personnel deployed to war zones or assigned to other morally challenging military duties are likely to be exposed to potentially morally injurious events (PMIE) that may inflict a moral injury (MI). This qualitative study formed 'Phase 1' of a lar ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moral Injury and Burnout in Health Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · October 1, 2021 The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is predicted to increase burnout in health professionals (HPs), but little is known about moral injury (MI) in this context. We administered the Moral Injury Symptoms Scale for Health Professionals (MISS-HP) and the abbr ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Spirituality, religiousness, and mental health: A review of the current scientific evidence.

Journal Article World J Clin Cases · September 16, 2021 Research in the field of "Spirituality and Health" has been growing, with spirituality/religiousness (S/R) being consistently related to both physical and mental health. The objective of this article is to provide an updated review of the current scientifi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Post-Traumatic Bio-Behavioral Rehabilitation of Adult Female Victims.

Journal Article Dela J Public Health · September 2021 OBJECTIVE: To determine if low resting basal AM cortisol and flat diurnal cortisol slope that has been reported in female abuse victims, which is dysregulated in the same way in female violent perpetrators, could be corrected and if healthier diurnal corti ... Full text Link to item Cite

COVID-19, Mental Health and Cancer.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality, moral injury and mental health among Chinese health professionals.

Journal Article BJPsych Open · July 19, 2021 BACKGROUND: Moral injury has been found to be prevalent among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 public health crisis. AIMS: The present study examines the relationship between spirituality, moral injury, and mental health among physicians and nu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does Religious Affiliation Protect People's Well-Being? Evidence from the Great Recession after Correcting for Selection Effects

Journal Article Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · June 1, 2021 This paper investigates the effect of religious affiliation on individual well-being. Using Gallup's U.S. Daily Poll between 2008 and 2017, we find that those who are engaged in their local church and view their faith as important to their lives have not o ... Full text Cite

Training to Conduct Research on Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Commentary.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2021 Scientific research on religion, spirituality and health is fundamental, or our health care systems will become spuriously tokenistic rather than being truly holistic. Likewise, training in scientific research with respect to the interconnection between re ... Full text Link to item Cite

Concluding suggestions

Chapter · May 28, 2021 The concluding chapter summarizes more general aspects of different insights from studies among persons from different cultural contexts. Health professions need to identify unmet spiritual needs in patients and their families. Addressing these needs indic ... Full text Cite

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Factors associated with mental health and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

Journal Article BJPsych open · May 2021 BackgroundAlthough mental distress and quality of life (QoL) impairments because of the pandemic have increased worldwide, the way that each community has been affected has varied.AimsThis study evaluated the impact of social distancing i ... Full text Cite

Effects of a health education program to promote healthy lifestyle and glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Prim Care Diabetes · April 2021 BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a common chronic disease with an increase in prevalence within developing countries. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of a structured educational program for improving lifestyle and health-r ... Full text Link to item Cite

COVID-19, Islam and Christianity.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Prevalence and Predictors of Moral Injury Symptoms in Health Care Professionals.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · March 1, 2021 This study examined the prevalence and predictors of moral injury (MI) symptoms in 181 health care professionals (HPs; 71% physicians) recruited from Duke University Health Systems in Durham, NC. Participants completed an online questionnaire between Novem ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and Spirituality among American Indian, South Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latina, and White Women in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health.

Journal Article J Sci Study Relig · March 2021 Social scientists have increasingly recognized the lack of diversity in survey research on American religion, resulting in a dearth of data on religion and spirituality (R/S) in understudied racial and ethnic groups. At the same time, epidemiological studi ... Full text Link to item Cite

"The Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH): Psychometric Evaluation and Initial Validation of the SSSH Baseline Spirituality Survey".

Journal Article Religions (Basel) · March 2021 This paper describes the development and initial psychometric testing of the baseline Spirituality Survey (SS-1) from the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH) which contained a mixture of items selected from validated existing scales and new it ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, Age, Education, Lifestyle, and Health: Structural Equation Modeling.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2021 This study aimed to analyze the moderating effect of religion between sociodemographic variables, lifestyle, and self-referred physical and mental health. Cross-sectional study with non-randomized sample of 392 participants. The Eight Natural Remedies Ques ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Moroccan Arabic Version of the Muslim Belief into Action (BIAC) Scale.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2021 Various approaches have been developed to comprehensively assess multiple dimensions of religiosity. The Belief into Action (BIAC) Scale was developed for this purpose and to evaluate the degree of translation of personal beliefs into real-life actions. Th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using photos of basic facial expressions as a new approach to measuring implicit attitudes.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2021 BACKGROUND: Measuring implicit attitudes is difficult due to social desirability (SD). A new method, the Emotion Based Approach (EBA), can solve this by using emotions from a display of faces as response categories. We applied this on an EBA Spirituality t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious affiliation and suicidality among college students in China: A cross-sectional study across six provinces.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2021 BACKGROUND: Several past studies indicated that religious beliefs, orientation, and practice are protective of suicide. Findings from recent studies in China suggest that religiosity may contribute to increased suicidality. However, few studies have examin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adaptation of the Duke University Religion Index for Turkish speaking Muslims

Journal Article Mental Health, Religion and Culture · January 1, 2021 The Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) was developed as a brief and comprehensive religiosity scale designed to be used in large epidemiological studies. The purpose of this study was to adapt DUREL for Turkish-speaking Muslims (TDUREL). The Turkish an ... Full text Cite

How Relevant is Obstetrician and Gynecologist Gender to Women in Saudi Arabia?

Journal Article Int J Womens Health · 2021 BACKGROUND: The patient-doctor relationship is one of the most important factors in determining the outcome of healthcare. The first step in establishing this relationship is choosing a physician. This study sought to identify patient preferences concernin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality and Ophthalmology

Journal Article Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia · January 1, 2021 Religion/spirituality (R/S) is very important to most patients, with 84% of world’s population reporting a religious affiliation. Even those with no religion often report some level of spirituality, which may be defined as “the relationship or contact with ... Full text Cite

Christian-Integrated Psychotherapy

Chapter · January 1, 2021 This chapter briefly reviews the relationship between Christianity and mental health based on evidence from observational studies, followed by a summary of evidence-based research examining religious/spiritually integrated therapies. Research on the effica ... Full text Cite

Christianity and Psychiatry

Book · January 1, 2021 This book aims to help readers appreciate the many-faceted relationship between Christianity, one of the world’s major faith traditions, and the practice of psychiatry. Chapter authors in this book first consider challenges posed by historical antagonisms, ... Full text Cite

Using Private Prayer for Coping (UPPC): Its role and mechanisms in adversities facing diverse populations

Chapter · December 7, 2020 Prayer is an important experience in the lives of many people. We introduce the Using Private Prayer for Coping (UPPC) scale, based on William James's (1902/1958) concept of personal religious experiences as "a study of human nature" (p. 350) and prayer as ... Full text Cite

Spirituality, Coping, and Resilience Among Rural Residents Living with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2020 Spirituality, an established resource within rural America, serves as an important coping mechanism for crises of chronic illness. We examined the effects of spirituality on chronic kidney disease (CKD) maintenance in the rural community of Robeson County, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Exploring the Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Mental Health and Coping in a Group of Canadian Psychiatric Outpatients.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · December 2020 Research has shown that religious/spiritual (R/S) beliefs can impact mental health. In addition, individual attachment impacts R/S views and mental health. Still, clinical studies are lacking. This study explores the presence of R/S beliefs and attachment ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric properties of the moral injury symptom scale among Chinese health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal Article BMC Psychiatry · November 25, 2020 BACKGROUND: Moral injury among physicians and other health professionals has attracted attention in the mainstream literature, this study aim to assess the psychometric properties of the 10-item Moral Injury Symptoms Scale-Health Professional (MISS-HP) amo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity and depressive symptoms among older adults in Colombia.

Journal Article Aging Ment Health · November 2020 Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between depressive symptoms and religiosity among older adults in Colombia.Methods: Data are drawn from the SABE (Salud, Bienestar y Envejecimiento) Colombia Study, a cross-sectional su ... Full text Link to item Cite

Maintaining Health and Well-Being by Putting Faith into Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2020 Anxiety and fear adversely affect the physiological systems that protect individuals from infection. This article comments on the role that religious faith and practice can play in helping individuals remain free from infection by the coronavirus and in he ... Full text Link to item Cite

Identifying Moral Injury in Healthcare Professionals: The Moral Injury Symptom Scale-HP.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2020 This study aims to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a measure of moral injury (MI) symptoms for identifying clinically significant MI in health professionals (HPs), one that might be useful in the current COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. A to ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Early-life exposure to famine and late-life depression: Does leukocyte telomere length mediate the association?

Journal Article J Affect Disord · September 1, 2020 BACKGROUND: A positive association between early-life famine exposure and depression has been demonstrated. However, the mechanisms by which famine exposure in early life leads to late-life depression remains unclear. The present study examines the impact ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of a health-education program using motivational interviewing on oral health behavior and self-efficacy in pregnant women: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Eur J Oral Sci · August 2020 Oral health problems are common among pregnant women. The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of motivational interviewing (MI) as a behavior-change technique to enhance self-efficacy and oral health among pregnant women. A randomized ... Full text Link to item Cite

Educational Intervention Based on the Health Belief Model to Modify Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease in Police Officers in Iran: A Quasi-experimental Study.

Journal Article J Prev Med Public Health · July 2020 OBJECTIVES: Police officers may be at a greater risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) than the general population due to their highstress occupation. This study evaluated how an educational program based on the health belief model (HBM) may protect police ... Full text Link to item Cite

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.

Journal Article J Appl Gerontol · June 2020 Objective: The current study seeks to examine the relationship between religiosity and telomere length (TL) in an older Chinese Muslim sample and to explore the moderating effect of religiosity on the relationship between high-risk polymorphisms and TL. Me ... Full text Link to item Cite

Validation of the Belief Into Action Scale (BIAC) in Portuguese Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy.

Journal Article J Holist Nurs · June 2020 Background: A large proportion of the world's population have religious beliefs, with 84.0% indicating an affiliation with a specific religious group. Few comprehensive measures to assess religious involvement currently exist in Portugal, particularly for ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moral injury from war and other severe trauma.

Journal Article Asia Pac Psychiatry · June 2020 Moral injury (MI) is a relatively new syndrome among military personnel with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While MI has received considerable attention in the psychological sciences, the syndrome has received relatively little notice w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trajectories of Religious Change From Adolescence to Adulthood, and Demographic, Environmental, and Psychiatric Correlates.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · June 2020 Studies of religiosity and mental health largely characterize religiousness as stable over time. However, research shows that religiosity likely changes significantly with development. It is unclear whether associations of religiosity with mental health al ... Full text Link to item Cite

The role of religious faith in severe trauma

Chapter · March 24, 2020 This chapter examines the role that religious/spiritual (R/S) beliefs and practices play in recovery from moral injuries resulting from combat, other violent situations, or natural disasters, where there is a serious threat to life or witnessing of a traum ... Full text Cite

A Theory of Planned Behavior-Based Program to Increase Physical Activity in Overweight/Obese Military Personnel: A Randomised Controlled Trial.

Journal Article Appl Psychol Health Well Being · March 2020 BACKGROUND: Designing a health promotion program to increase physical activity may contribute to weight management. The purpose of this study was to investigate a theory of planned behavior (TPB) program to address this problem in military people. METHODS: ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hope, Religiosity, and Mental Health in U.S. Veterans and Active Duty Military with PTSD Symptoms.

Journal Article Mil Med · February 12, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Many studies have linked hope with better mental health and lower risk of suicide. This is especially true in those who have experienced severe physical or emotional trauma. Religious involvement is associated with greater hope. We examine he ... Full text Link to item Cite

Integration of Spiritual Care in Hospital Care System in Iran.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2020 There is a growing body of evidence on the positive effects of religion and spirituality on recovery from cancer and the ability to cope with it. Most spiritual interventions carried out in Iranian research are based on care and support models that have be ... Full text Link to item Cite

Beliefs of cancer patients in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article J Psychosoc Oncol · 2020 Objectives: To examine oncology patients' beliefs about the transmissible nature of cancer or its treatments and to determine the correlates thereof.Design: Cross-sectional.Participants: Sixty-nine hospital outpatients completed the questionnaire.Methods: ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity, depression and telomere length in Chinese older adults.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · January 1, 2020 BACKGROUND: The mechanism explaining how religiosity is linked to telomere length (TL) is unclear. The current study examines depression as a possible mediator. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study of 1,742 community-dwelling residents aged 55 or over, t ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Pilot Study on Sleep Quality, Forgiveness, Religion, Spirituality, and General Health of Women Living in a Homeless Mission.

Journal Article Holist Nurs Pract · 2020 This cross-sectional pilot study evaluated associations between religion/spirituality, forgiveness, sleep, and health, which were all highly correlated for adult women living in a homeless mission. While causation cannot be determined, these findings help ... Full text Link to item Cite

Examining the Overlap Between Moral Injury and PTSD in US Veterans and Active Duty Military.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · January 2020 Moral injury (MI) is a syndrome thought to be separate from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), yet having some overlap. To determine the overlap, we examined the relationship between MI and the four DSM-5 PTSD symptom clusters (B, C, D, E) in US veteran ... Full text Link to item Cite

The relationship between parental religiosity and school age children's dietary behavior in Ningxia Province, China: A cross-sectional study.

Journal Article Indian J Public Health · 2020 BACKGROUND: Studies have shown parental religious involvement was associated with better health behaviors of their children. However, the relationship between parental religiosity and child dietary behaviors remains unclear. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Commentary on “Does Spirituality or Religion Positively Affect Mental Health?”

Journal Article International Journal for the Psychology of Religion · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Religion and psychiatry: Clinical applications

Journal Article BJPsych Advances · January 1, 2020 In an earlier article we reviewed the latest research on the relationship between religious involvement and mental health, the effects of religiosity on mental health and well-being over time and the impact of religious interventions. Here we focus on clin ... Full text Cite

Religion and psychiatry: Recent developments in research

Journal Article BJPsych Advances · January 1, 2020 The evidence base on the relationship between religion and mental health is growing rapidly, and we summarise the latest research on the topic. This includes studies on religious involvement and depression, bipolar disorder, suicide, post-traumatic stress ... Full text Cite

Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and Mental Health

Book · January 1, 2020 Research has indicated that spiritual and religious factors are strongly tied to a host of mental health characteristics, in both positive and negative ways. That body of research has significantly grown since publication of the first edition of this book ... Full text Cite

Medically Induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Military Personnel and Veterans: An Overview

Journal Article Military Behavioral Health · October 2, 2019 Medically induced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a growing health concern, given its negative impact on mental, emotional, and physical functioning. There is substantial research that indicates that military personnel and veterans (ADMP/V) are at ... Full text Cite

Religion, spirituality and depression in prospective studies: A systematic review.

Journal Article Journal of affective disorders · October 2019 BackgroundMany empirical studies have shown inverse associations between measures of religiousness and spirituality (R/S) and depression. Although the majority of these studies is cross-sectional, a considerable number of prospective studies have ... Full text Cite

Religious Attendance and Biological Risk: A National Longitudinal Study of Older Adults.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2019 Although several studies suggest that religious involvement is associated with healthier biological functioning in later life, most of this work is cross-sectional. We extend previous research by employing a longitudinal design. Our analysis of Health and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, Spirituality and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A Matched Case-Control Study and Meta-Analysis.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2019 Although the association between religion/spirituality (R/S) and psychological outcomes is well established, current understanding of the association with cardiovascular disease remains limited. We sought to investigate the association between Islamic R/S ... Full text Link to item Cite

Use of the Spiritual Development Framework in Conducting Spirituality and Health Research with Adolescents.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2019 Spirituality is considered a universal phenomenon, but research addressing the spiritual needs of adolescents in the context of health and illness is limited. The aim of this article is to provide a description of how the spiritual development framework (S ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physician well-being from the perspective of Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism

Chapter · July 18, 2019 The problem is an acute one. A survey a few years ago by the Physicians' Foundation found that half of US physicians reported being pessimistic about the medical profession, one-third indicated feeling overworked and extended beyond their capacity to perfo ... Full text Cite

Physicians and spirituality

Chapter · July 18, 2019 Picking up the schedule for the day, Dr. Jonas notices with a sigh that Mrs. Smith is slotted for a 10:00 am appointment. This will be her third visit to the practice in 6 weeks with the same vague complaints. He had already run a battery of routine diagno ... Full text Cite

The Moderating Effect of Religious Involvement on the Relationship Between PTSD Symptoms and Physical Pain in U.S. Veterans and Active Duty Military

Journal Article Military Behavioral Health · July 3, 2019 The relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity and pain is well known in veterans and active duty military (V/ADM). This study examines the buffering effect of religiosity on that relationship. A multisite study was conducte ... Full text Cite

Religiosity and self-rated health among older adults in Colombia.

Journal Article Colomb Med (Cali) · June 30, 2019 OBJECTIVE: To identify the relationship between religiosity and self-rated health among older adults in Colombia. METHODS: Data are drawn from the SABE (Salud, Bienestar y Envejecimiento) Colombia Study, a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2015 involving ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dimensions of Religiosity and PTSD Symptom Clusters in US Veterans and Active Duty Military.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2019 We examined multiple dimensions of religiosity and their relationship to the four DSM-5 PTSD symptom clusters among US Veterans and Active Duty Military (ADM), hypothesizing that religiosity would be most strongly inversely related to negative cognitions/e ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of a structured heart failure program on quality of life and frequency of hospital admission in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Saudi Med J · June 2019 OBJECTIVE:  To compare the quality of life (QOL) and frequency of hospital admission (FHA) in the past 4 months between congestive heart failure (CHF) patients involved in a structured heart failure program (HFP) compared with waitlisted controls. METHODS: ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Education-Based Text Messaging Program to Improve Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Related to Nosocomial Infections in Intensive Care Settings.

Journal Article J Contin Educ Nurs · May 1, 2019 BACKGROUND: Nosocomial infection (NI) is common in health care settings. Educational strategies such as mobile teaching methods for health care providers may help to resolve this problem. This pilot study assessed the influence of a text messaging program ... Full text Link to item Cite

Relationship of religiosity to mental health literacy, stigma, social distance, and occupational restrictiveness in Ningxia Province, China

Journal Article Mental Health, Religion and Culture · April 21, 2019 Little research has assessed the relationship between religiosity and mental health awareness in low- and middle-income countries. This study identified a representative sample of 2,425 community-dwelling adults in Ningxia, China and administered the Duke ... Full text Cite

Efficacy of an educational intervention on students' attitudes regarding spirituality in healthcare: a cohort study in the USA.

Journal Article BMJ Open · April 4, 2019 OBJECTIVE: To determine if an educational intervention focused on the role of spirituality in healthcare positively affects medical students' attitudes and perceptions relating to this topic. DESIGN: A pre-post cohort study. SETTING: An undergraduate medic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity and Physician Lifestyle from a Family Health Strategy.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2019 This study examines the association between religiosity and physician lifestyle from a Family Health Strategy perspective. This is a cross-sectional study with 30 physicians, who completed the religiosity and lifestyle questionnaires. Among the participant ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moderating Effects of Religiosity on the Relationship Between Trauma and Suicidal Behaviors Among College Students in Northwest China

Journal Article SAGE Open · April 1, 2019 Studies have shown that traumatic experiences are positively associated with risk of suicidal behaviors, whereas religiosity has been found to be negatively associated with that risk. How exactly religiosity interacts with traumatic experiences in its rela ... Full text Cite

Moral Injury, Religiosity, and Suicide Risk in U.S. Veterans and Active Duty Military with PTSD Symptoms.

Journal Article Mil Med · March 1, 2019 INTRODUCTION: There is growing evidence that moral injury (MI) is related to greater suicide risk among Veterans and Active Duty Military (V/ADM). This study examines the relationship between MI and suicide risk and the moderating effect of religiosity on ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity and Beliefs About the Transmission of Cancer, Chemotherapy, and Radiation Through Physical Contact in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2019 We examined relationships between religiosity and Saudi cancer patients' beliefs about the spread of cancer, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy through close physical contact. Surveyed were 64 patients seen in university oncology clinics. Assessed were be ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effect of a psycho-educational intervention on weight management in obese military personnel

Journal Article Military Psychology · January 2, 2019 Obesity is a serious health problem for many population groups, including military personnel. Model-based health education programs have been shown to be effective in reducing weight. This study assessed the efficacy of an educational intervention based on ... Full text Cite

Integrating spirituality into the care of older adults.

Journal Article Int Psychogeriatr · January 2019 ABSTRACTWe examine how to sensibly integrate spirituality into the care of older adult medical and psychiatric patients from a multi-cultural perspective. First, definitions of spirituality and spiritual integration are provided. Second, we examine the log ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Preliminary Study Examining the Prevalence and Perceived Intensity of Morally Injurious Events in a Veterans Affairs Chaplaincy Spiritual Injury Support Group.

Journal Article J Health Care Chaplain · 2019 The aim of this descriptive study was to examine the prevalence and perceived intensity of potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) in a group of VA chaplaincy service users. A secondary aim was to examine the relationship between PMIEs, spiritual inju ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Persian version of the Affiliate Stigma Scale in caregivers of people with dementia.

Journal Article Health Promot Perspect · 2019 Background: Dementia is prevalent among older adults and frequently causes dependence on family caregivers. Caregivers may experience a form of stigmatization called affiliate stigma that negatively affects their mental health. The current study sought to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effectiveness of an In-Service Education Program to Improve Patient Safety Directed at Surgical Residents: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Journal Article J Surg Educ · 2019 BACKGROUND: Patient safety is a critical issue in healthcare services particularly in surgical units and operation rooms because of the high prevalence and risk of medical errors in such settings. This study was conducted to determine whether a 1-day educa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric properties of Persian Diabetes-Mellitus Specific Quality of Life (DMQoL) questionnaire in a population-based sample of Iranians

Journal Article International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries · January 1, 2019 Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among patients with diabetes mellitus is often poorer than in those with other chronic medical conditions. Appropriate disease specific measures are needed to measure HRQoL in these patients. This study sought to vali ... Full text Cite

Illness perception and high readmission health outcomes.

Journal Article Health Psychol Open · 2019 This review identified associations between illness perception and health outcomes of patients with a medical diagnosis included in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Inclusion criteria were English language, use of quantitative methodology, heal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessment of Moral Injury in Veterans and Active Duty Military Personnel With PTSD: A Review.

Journal Article Front Psychiatry · 2019 Background: Moral injury (MI) involves distress over having transgressed or violated core moral boundaries, accompanied by feelings of guilt, shame, self-condemnation, loss of trust, loss of meaning, and spiritual struggles. MI is often found in Veterans a ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Moral injury and religiosity in active duty U.S. military with ptsd symptoms

Journal Article Military Behavioral Health · January 1, 2019 This study examined the association between moral injury (MI) and religiosity, the modifying effects of PTSD severity on this relationship, and the receptivity to a spiritual intervention in 103 Active Duty U.S. Military (ADM). Demographic, military, relig ... Full text Cite

Foreword

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Religious Involvement, Anxiety/Depression, and PTSD Symptoms in US Veterans and Active Duty Military.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2018 Religious involvement is associated with mental health and well-being in non-military populations. This study examines the relationship between religiosity and PTSD symptoms, and the mediating effects of anxiety and depression in Veterans and Active Duty M ... Full text Link to item Cite

Screening for Moral Injury: The Moral Injury Symptom Scale - Military Version Short Form.

Journal Article Mil Med · November 1, 2018 INTRODUCTION: To develop a short form (SF) of the 45-item multidimensional Moral Injury Symptom Scale - Military Version (MISS-M) to use when screening for moral injury and monitoring treatment response in veterans and active duty military with PTSD. METHO ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effectiveness of a model-based health education intervention to improve ergonomic posture in office computer workers: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Int Arch Occup Environ Health · November 2018 PURPOSE: Lack of knowledge about computer ergonomics predisposes users to musculoskeletal and visual disorders. The present study examined the effect of a trans-theoretical model (TTM)-based educational program on work-related posture in office computer us ... Full text Link to item Cite

Interest among veterans in spiritually-oriented therapy for inner conflict/moral injury in the setting of PTSD.

Journal Article Ann Clin Psychiatry · November 2018 BACKGROUND: We examined U.S. veterans' interest in spiritually-oriented therapy (SOT) for treating inner conflict/moral injury (ICMI); identified combat-related, demographic, religious, and psychological characteristics of those interested in this treatmen ... Link to item Cite

Correlates and Predictors of Medication Adherence in Outpatients Living with HIV/AIDS

Journal Article Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services · October 2, 2018 Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important in HIV outcomes and HIV prevention. However, ART adherence remains suboptimal in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH). This study examined associations among ART adherence and demographic, psychosocial, and religious ... Full text Cite

Religious versus Conventional Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2018 The accessibility and efficacy of two Internet-supported interventions for depression: conventional cognitive behavioral therapy (C-CBT) and religious CBT (R-CBT) were investigated. Depressed participants (N = 79) were randomly assigned to either active tr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual Interventions in Veterans with PTSD: A Systematic Review.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2018 This article reports the results of a systematic review on the effectiveness of religious/spiritually (R/S)-based interventions in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A total of 385 unique records were identified with eight meeting the inc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mediating effect of spiritual coping strategies and family stigma stress on caregiving burden and mental health in caregivers of persons with dementia.

Journal Article Dementia (London) · September 11, 2018 Background A considerable number of the persons living with dementia rely on family members for care and assistance when performing activities of daily living. As a result, caregivers may be at increased risk for mental health problems such as depression, ... Full text Link to item Cite

A theory of planned behavior-based intervention to improve quality of life in patients with knee/hip osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Clin Rheumatol · September 2018 Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common chronic disorder among elderly people that affects joints such as the knee and hip in particular. The objective of the current study was to examine the efficacy of an intervention based on a theory of planned behavior (TPB) ... Full text Link to item Cite

Teachers' and Parents' Perspectives on a Curricular Subject of "Religion and Spirituality" for Indian Schools: A Pilot Study Toward School Mental Health Program.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2018 Religious-spiritual (R/S) education helps medical students cope with caregiving stress and gain skills in interpersonal empathy needed for clinical care. Such R/S education has been introduced into K-12 and college curricula in some developed nations and h ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and psychotic experiences.

Journal Article Acta Psychiatr Scand · August 2018 Full text Link to item Cite

Supernatural Explanations of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Among Health Care Professionals at an Academic Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · August 2018 Saudi society is one of many where supernatural explanations for neurological and psychiatric disorders are prevalent among lay persons. The frequency of such beliefs among health care professionals in this country, however, is unknown. The frequency of su ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual Fitness for Military Veterans: A Curriculum Review and Impact Evaluation Using the Duke Religion Index (DUREL).

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2018 Suicide rates among military veterans exceed those found in the general population. While the exact reasons for these high rates are unknown, contributing factors may include the military's perceived rejection of patient identities, creating barriers to me ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Psychosocial and Clinical Well-Being of Women Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS.

Journal Article Nurs Clin North Am · June 2018 This study examined factors impacting the psychological well-being of women living with human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS and the impact of depression on clinical outcomes. Nearly two-thirds of participants in this cross-sectional study reported significan ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moral Injury and Religiosity in US Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · May 2018 Moral injury (MI) involves feelings of shame, grief, meaninglessness, and remorse from having violated core moral beliefs related to traumatic experiences. This multisite cross-sectional study examined the association between religious involvement (RI) and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moral injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and religious involvement among U.S. veterans.

Journal Article Ann Clin Psychiatry · May 2018 BACKGROUND: Traumatic experiences can cause ethical conflicts. "Moral injury" (MI) has been used to describe this emotional/cognitive state, and could contribute to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or block its recovery. We examine t ... Link to item Cite

Religiosity, Education, John Henryism Active Coping, and Cardiovascular Responses to Anger Recall for African American Men

Journal Article Journal of Black Psychology · May 1, 2018 The present study examined if high levels of religious attendance (ORG), private religious activity (NOR), or intrinsic religiosity (SUB) buffer cardiovascular responses to active speech and anger recall lab stressors alone and by John Henryism Active Copi ... Full text Cite

Religiosity and Telomere Length in Colorectal Cancer Patients in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2018 Numerous studies have reported a significant relationship between psychological stress, depression, and telomere length (TL), an indicator of cellular lifespan. Religious involvement, which is associated with lower levels of stress and depression, has also ... Full text Link to item Cite

Measuring symptoms of moral injury in veterans and active duty military with PTSD

Journal Article Religions · March 17, 2018 The Moral Injury Symptom Scale-Military Version (MISS-M) is a 45-item measure of moral injury (MI) symptoms designed to use in Veterans and Active Duty Military with PTSD. This paper reviews the psychometric properties of the MISS-M identified in a previou ... Full text Cite

The Moral Injury Symptom Scale-Military Version.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2018 The purpose of this study was to develop a multi-dimensional measure of moral injury symptoms that can be used as a primary outcome measure in intervention studies that target moral injury (MI) in Veterans and Active Duty Military with PTSD. This was a mul ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of spiritual counseling on spiritual well-being in Iranian women with cancer: A randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article Complement Ther Clin Pract · February 2018 OBJECTIVES: This study examined the effect of spiritual counseling on the spiritual well-being of Iranian women with cancer. DESIGN AND SETTING: a randomized clinical trial was conducted on 42 female cancer patients who were randomized to either an 8-week ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of religious versus conventional cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) on suicidal thoughts in major depression and chronic medical illness

Journal Article Psychology of Religion and Spirituality · February 1, 2018 We compared the effectiveness of religiously integrated cognitive-behavioral therapy (RCBT) versus conventional CBT (CCBT) on decreasing suicidal thoughts in persons with major depressive disorder (MDD) and chronic medical illness (CMI). Persons ages 18-85 ... Full text Cite

Military veterans' preferences for incorporating spirituality in psychotherapy or counseling

Journal Article Professional Psychology: Research and Practice · February 1, 2018 Amassing research findings suggests that religious faith and/or spirituality (R/S) can both help and hinder recovery from mental health conditions that might prompt military veterans to seek psychotherapy or counseling. As such, there is increasing interes ... Full text Cite

Effects of religiosity and religious coping on medication adherence and quality of life among people with epilepsy.

Journal Article Epilepsy Behav · January 2018 The epidemiologic information demonstrates the importance of caring people with epilepsy (PWE). Indeed, the impaired quality of life (QoL) and medication nonadherence rate among PWE have been reported. However, religiosity and religious coping could be pot ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of Game-Based Health Promotion Programs on Body Mass Index in Overweight/Obese Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Journal Article Child Obes · 2018 BACKGROUND: Sedentary lifestyle is growing among children and adolescents that may contribute to problems such as overweight and obesity. Consequently, interventions to improve weight loss in this population are necessary. The aim of this current review wa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and comorbid psychiatric and behavioral problems among primary school students in western Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Saudi Med J · January 2018 To determine the prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), subtypes of ADHD, and psychiatric, academic, and behavioral comorbidity in public primary school students in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.  Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. A ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factor structure of the spiritual needs questionnaire (SpNQ) in persons with chronic diseases, elderly and healthy individuals

Journal Article Religions · January 1, 2018 The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) is an established measure of psychosocial, existential and spiritual needs. Its 4-factor structure has been primarily validated in persons with chronic diseases, but until now has not been done in elderly and stress ... Full text Cite

Religiosity, depression, and quality of life in bipolar disorder: a two-year prospective study.

Journal Article Braz J Psychiatry · 2018 OBJECTIVE: Few quantitative studies have examined the effect of religious involvement on the course of bipolar disorder (BD). We investigated the effects of religious activity and coping behaviors on the course of depression, mania, and quality of life (Qo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritually Integrated Cognitive Processing Therapy: A New Treatment for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder That Targets Moral Injury.

Journal Article Glob Adv Health Med · 2018 BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating disorder, and current treatments leave the majority of patients with unresolved symptoms. Moral injury (MI) may be one of the barriers that interfere with recovery from PTSD, particularly ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and subjective well-being in Chinese college students: Does meaningfulness matter?

Journal Article Archive for the Psychology of Religion · January 1, 2018 Studies from the West have reported a positive relationship between religion and mental health, and yet research on the relationship between religiosity and well-being among Chinese is rare. The present study investigated this relationship in a representat ... Full text Cite

Association Between Trust and Mental, Social, and Physical Health Outcomes in Veterans and Active Duty Service Members With Combat-Related PTSD Symptomatology.

Journal Article Front Psychiatry · 2018 Background: Trust represents a complex emotion and interpersonal concept which assumes abandoning control over a given situation or set of circumstances, in turn yielding such control to another party. Advances in our knowledge of post-traumatic stress dis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and Mental Health: Research and Clinical Applications

Book · January 1, 2018 Religion and Mental Health: Research and Clinical Applications summarizes research on how religion may help people better cope or exacerbate their stress, covering its relationship to depression, anxiety, suicide, substance abuse, well-being, happiness, li ... Full text Cite

Examination of the Role of Religious and Psychosocial Factors in HIV Medication Adherence Rates.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2017 Optimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with favorable HIV outcomes, including higher CD4 cell counts, HIV virus suppression and a lower risk of HIV transmission. However, only 25% of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) in the USA ar ... Full text Link to item Cite

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.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2017 Assessing spirituality in healthy pregnant women may lead to supportive interventions that will improve their care. A psychometrically valid measure such as the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES) may be helpful in this regard. The current study sough ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric examination of the Persian version of Osteoarthritis Knee and Hip Quality of Life questionnaire.

Journal Article Int J Rheum Dis · November 2017 AIM: Osteoarthritis is a serious and prevalent health problem that creates considerable disability when it involves the knee or hip joints. The aim of the study was to adapt and validate the Osteoarthritis Knee and Hip Quality of Life (OAKHQOL) questionnai ... Full text Link to item Cite

Integrating religious faith into patient care: Commentary on… the role of faith in mental healthcare

Journal Article BJPsych Advances · November 1, 2017 We examine Foreman’s assertion that assessing, addressing and utilising a patient’s faith is warranted. After a brief background, we examine when faith-integrated therapy is indicated, the need for training, an example of such a therapy, and what to do whe ... Full text Cite

Of These, Faith, Hope, and Love: Assessing and Providing for the Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs of Burn Patients.

Journal Article Clin Plast Surg · October 2017 Burn treatment has grown increasingly advanced and technologically capable. Clinicians must take into account, however, multidimensional patient needs that factor into long-term burn recovery. Important psychosocial factors associated with burn care includ ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of a transactional model education program on coping effectiveness in women with multiple sclerosis.

Journal Article Brain Behav · October 2017 OBJECTIVES: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and progressive disease that causes stress due to its unpredictability and lack of definitive treatments. This study examined the effects of an educational program using a transactional model to help women w ... Full text Link to item Cite

State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research Part II: Screening, Assessment, and Interventions.

Journal Article J Pain Symptom Manage · September 2017 The State of the Science in Spirituality and Palliative Care was convened to address the current landscape of research at the intersection of spirituality and palliative care and to identify critical next steps to advance this field of inquiry. Part II of ... Full text Link to item Cite

State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research Part I: Definitions, Measurement, and Outcomes.

Journal Article J Pain Symptom Manage · September 2017 The State of the Science in Spirituality and Palliative Care was convened to address the current landscape of research at the intersection of spirituality and palliative care and to identify critical next steps to advance this field of inquiry. Part I of t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric Evaluation of the Filipino Versions of the Duke University Religion Index and the Spiritual Coping Strategies Scale in Filipino Hemodialysis Patients.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2017 This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Filipino versions of the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL-F) and the Spiritual Coping Strategies scale (SCS-F) for hemodialysis (HD) patients in the Philippines. A convenient sample of 162 HD pat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and mental health of U.S. military veterans: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · August 1, 2017 BACKGROUND: In the last three decades, there has been increased interest in studying the association between religion/spirituality (R/S), and mental health and functional outcomes. METHODS: Using data from a contemporary, nationally representative sample o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Costly signaling theory is not the only pathway to self-control

Journal Article Religion, Brain and Behavior · July 3, 2017 Full text Cite

The spiritual history in outpatient practice: attitudes and practices of health professionals in the Adventist Health System.

Journal Article BMC Med Educ · June 12, 2017 BACKGROUND: A screening spiritual history (SSH) is how health professionals (HP) identify patients' spiritual values, beliefs and preferences (VBPs) in the outpatient setting. We report on attitudes and practices of HPs in the largest Protestant health sys ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Role of Religiousness/Spirituality and Social Networks in Predicting Depressive Symptoms among Older Korean Americans.

Journal Article J Cross Cult Gerontol · June 2017 This study (1) examined the effects of religiousness/spirituality and social networks as predictors of depressive symptoms in older Korean Americans and (2) compared the best predictors of depressive symptoms. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 20 ... Full text Link to item Cite

VanderWeele and Koenig Respond.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · June 2017 Full text Link to item Cite

VanderWeele and Koenig Respond.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · June 2017 Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of a 12-Month Educational Intervention on Clinicians' Attitudes/Practices Regarding the Screening Spiritual History.

Journal Article South Med J · June 2017 OBJECTIVES: Patients' spiritual values, beliefs, and preferences are identified in outpatient medical settings by the taking of a screening spiritual history (SSH). We report the impact of an educational/training program on the attitudes/practices of physi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors Associated With Domestic Violence Against Women in Iran: An Exploratory Multicenter Community-Based Study.

Journal Article J Interpers Violence · June 1, 2017 Domestic violence against women committed by intimate partners is a worldwide concern especially in developing countries. The aim of this study was to assess the problem among Iranian women and identify associated risk factors. Using a cross-sectional mult ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious Practices and Self-Care in Iranian Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2017 This study aimed to examine the relationship between religious practices and self-care of patients with type 2 diabetes. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted on 154 diabetic patients who were referred to two general teaching hospitals in Qom ... Full text Link to item Cite

Islam and Mental Health Beliefs, Research and Applications

Book · March 22, 2017 This book is for mental health professionals, clergy, researchers, and laypersons interested in the relationship between religion, spirituality and mental health in Muslims. ... Cite

Protestant Christianity and Mental Health Beliefs, Research and Applications

Book · March 10, 2017 This book is for mental health professionals, clergy, researchers, and laypersons interested in the relationship between religion, spirituality and mental health in Protestant Christians. ... Cite

Catholic Christianity and Mental Health Beliefs, Research and Applications

Book · March 6, 2017 This book is for mental health professionals, clergy, researchers, and laypersons interested in the relationship between religion, spirituality and mental health in Catholics. ... Cite

Judaism and Mental Health Beliefs, Research and Applications

Book · March 4, 2017 This book is for mental health professionals, clergy, and researchers interested in the relationship between religion, spirituality and health in Judaism. ... Cite

The Effect of Holy Qur'an Recitation on Depressive Symptoms in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article J Relig Health · February 2017 Patients with advanced renal failure often face considerable sociopsychological stress as a result of lifestyle changes due to the disease and its treatment. The aim of the present study is to examine the effect of the Holy Qur'an recitation on depressive ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rationale for Spiritually Oriented Cognitive Processing Therapy for Moral Injury in Active Duty Military and Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · February 2017 Wartime experiences have long been known to cause ethical conflict, guilt, self-condemnation, difficulty forgiving, loss of trust, lack of meaning and purpose, and spiritual struggles. "Moral injury" (MI) (also sometimes called "inner conflict") is the ter ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Course on Religion and Public Health at Harvard.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · January 2017 Full text Link to item Cite

Integrating Spirituality Into Outpatient Practice in the Adventist Health System.

Journal Article South Med J · January 2017 OBJECTIVES: We examined Adventist Health System (AHS)-affiliated providers and staff regarding controversial spiritual practices such as praying led by a practitioner, sharing of personal religious beliefs, and encouraging patients' religious beliefs for h ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of a 12-month educational intervention on outpatient clinicians' attitudes and behaviors concerning spiritual practices with patients.

Journal Article Adv Med Educ Pract · 2017 OBJECTIVE: We report here the impact of an educational training program on attitudes and practices of physicians (MDs) and mid-level practitioners (MLPs) toward controversial spiritual practices, such as practitioner-led prayer, sharing personal religious ... Full text Link to item Cite

Supporting Muslim Patients During Advanced Illness.

Journal Article Perm J · 2017 Religion is an important part of many patients' cultural perspectives and value systems that influence them during advanced illness and toward the end of life when they directly face mortality. Worldwide violence perpetrated by people identifying as Muslim ... Full text Link to item Cite

Is there an association between Health Related Quality of Life, socio-demographic status and Fatigue in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B?

Journal Article Acta Gastroenterol Belg · 2017 BACKGROUND: Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a serious and prevalent disease which may negatively influence health related quality of life (HRQOL) and fatigue. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between demographic variables, HRQOL, a ... Link to item Cite

Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory in People With Hepatitis B Infection: Cross-cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Persian Version.

Journal Article Gastroenterol Nurs · 2017 There is no valid and well-established tool to measure fatigue in people with chronic hepatitis B. The aim of this study was to translate the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) into Persian and examine its reliability and validity in Iranian people w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reintegration of Military Nurse Veterans

Journal Article Military Behavioral Health · January 1, 2017 This research focuses on how measures of mindfulness, spirituality, and storytelling affect the reintegration of 159 military nurses after service in a combat zone. Chief nurses of all branches of service forwarded a survey link to nurses who had served in ... Full text Cite

Foreword

Journal Article Spiritually Competent Practice in Health Care · January 1, 2017 Cite

Psychometric characteristics of the Muslim Religiosity Scale in Iranian patients with cancer.

Journal Article Palliat Support Care · December 2016 OBJECTIVE: Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Religiosity is a factor that may help cancer patients to cope with their disease. The aim of the current study was to validate a Persian translation of the Muslim Religiosity Scale (MRS) in a populat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of the Intelligent Health Messenger Box on health care professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and practice related to hand hygiene and hand bacteria counts.

Journal Article Am J Infect Control · December 1, 2016 We assessed the effectiveness of the Intelligent Health Messenger Box in promoting hand hygiene using a quasiexperimental design. Knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported practices related to hand hygiene as well as hand bacteria counts and amount of liquid ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects on Daily Spiritual Experiences of Religious Versus Conventional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2016 We compared religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy (RCBT) versus conventional CBT (CCBT) on increasing daily spiritual experiences (DSE) in major depressive disorder and chronic medical illness. A total of 132 participants aged 18-85 were rand ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the Belief into Action Scale

Journal Article Mental Health, Religion and Culture · September 13, 2016 The Belief into Action Scale (BIAC) is a comprehensive measure of religious involvement intended for monotheistic religious traditions. We examine the psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the BIAC for administration in Muslim populations. A conv ... Full text Cite

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Assessment of the Liver Disease Symptom Index 2.0 to Measure Health-Related Quality of Life Among Iranian Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B.

Journal Article J Transcult Nurs · September 2016 PURPOSE: There are only a few measures to assess quality of life among patients with liver disorders. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Liver Disease Symptom Index Version 2.0 (LDSI 2.0), a disease specific measure o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Medical Ethics in Qiṣāṣ (Eye-for-an-Eye) Punishment: An Islamic View; an Examination of Acid Throwing.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2016 Physicians in Islamic countries might be requested to participate in the Islamic legal code of qiṣāṣ, in which the victim or family has the right to an eye-for-an-eye retaliation. Qiṣāṣ is only used as a punishment in the case of murder or intentional phys ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association of Religious Involvement and Suicide.

Journal Article JAMA Psychiatry · August 1, 2016 Full text Link to item Cite

Neural correlates of healing prayers, depression and traumatic memories: A preliminary study.

Journal Article Complement Ther Med · August 2016 Depression is a global health concern and when rooted in childhood adversity is particularly difficult to treat. In a previous study, we found that healing prayer was effective in reducing depressive symptoms. Subjects suffering with depression according t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, Purpose in Life, Social Support, and Psychological Distress in Chinese University Students.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2016 We examined the relationship between religious involvement and psychological distress and explored the mediating effects of social support and purpose in life in university students in western, mid-western, and eastern China. Cross-sectional survey of a re ... Full text Link to item Cite

Belief into Action Scale: psychometric properties of the Farsi version

Journal Article Mental Health, Religion and Culture · May 27, 2016 This study assessed the psychometric properties of the Farsi version of Belief into Action Scale (FaBIAC) in a sample of healthy volunteer Muslims. A convenience sample of 200 healthy volunteer was enrolled from Tehran, Iran. Using a standard forward–backw ... Full text Cite

A commentary on Michael King. “The challenge of research into religion and spirituality.” Journal for the Study of Spirituality 4 (2014): 106–20

Journal Article Religions · April 12, 2016 King’s publication based on a key note presentation at the 2014 British Association of the Study of Spirituality (BASS) conference, a well written and thought provoking paper, leads us to consider the contribution of this critique of spirituality research ... Full text Cite

Effects of Religious Versus Conventional Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on Gratitude in Major Depression and Chronic Medical Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Journal Article Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health · April 2, 2016 This study examined whether religiously-integrated cognitive behavioral therapy (RCBT) was more effective than conventional CBT (CCBT) on generating gratitude among religious persons with major depressive disorder (MDD) and chronic medical illness (CMI). P ... Full text Cite

Family Spirituality and Family Health Among Korean-American Elderly Couples.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2016 Spirituality has been regarded as an individual and private matter; consequently, research on spirituality as a family phenomenon has been largely neglected. In addition, most published research has been focused on Western cultures. The purpose of this stu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious beliefs, practices, and health in colorectal cancer patients in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Psychooncology · March 2016 OBJECTIVE: Colorectal cancer (CRC) patients experience considerable psychological stress because of changes brought on by their illness. Religion may be a resource for such patients. We examined the prevalence of religious beliefs and practices in CRC pati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious Involvement and Adaptation in Female Family Caregivers.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · March 2016 OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationship between religious involvement (RI) and adaptation of women caring for family members with severe physical or neurological disability. DESIGN: Two-site cross-sectional study. SETTING: Community. PARTICIPANTS: A conven ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual Struggles and Religious Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Randomized Clinical Trial in those with Depression and Chronic Medical Illness

Journal Article Journal of Psychology and Theology · March 2016 Objectives Compared the effectiveness of religious cognitive-behavioral therapy (RCBT) versus conventional CBT (CCBT) on reducing spiritual struggles in persons with major depressive disorder (MDD) and medical ill ... Full text Cite

An 81-year-old woman with chronic illnesses and a strong faith.

Journal Article J Complement Integr Med · March 2016 Mrs. Smith is an 81-year-old woman who has several medical problems. Despite these problems, however, her faith and spirituality strength give her the strength and determination to move forward in life. She stresses that, "My faith helps me cope with my il ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality, Religiosity, and Health: a Comparison of Physicians' Attitudes in Brazil, India, and Indonesia.

Journal Article Int J Behav Med · February 2016 BACKGROUND: One of the biggest challenges in the spirituality, religiosity, and health field is to understand how patients and physicians from different cultures deal with spiritual and religious issues in clinical practice. PURPOSE: The present study aims ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of religious vs. standard cognitive behavioral therapy on therapeutic alliance: A randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article Psychother Res · 2016 BACKGROUND: Treatments that integrate religious clients' beliefs into therapy may enhance the therapeutic alliance (TA) in religious clients. OBJECTIVE: Compare the effects of religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy (RCBT) and standard CBT (SCB ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious Involvement and Telomere Length in Women Family Caregivers.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · January 2016 Telomere length (TL) is an indicator of cellular aging associated with longevity and psychosocial stress. We examine here the relationship between religious involvement and TL in 251 stressed female family caregivers recruited into a 2-site study. Religiou ... Full text Link to item Cite

EFFECTS OF RELIGIOUS VERSUS STANDARD COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY ON OPTIMISM IN PERSONS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSION AND CHRONIC MEDICAL ILLNESS.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · November 2015 BACKGROUND: We compared the effectiveness of religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy (RCBT) versus standard CBT (SCBT) on increasing optimism in persons with major depressive disorder (MDD) and chronic medical illness. METHODS: Participants age ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Effect of Holy Qur'an Recitation on Anxiety in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2015 Kidney disease and its related psychological costs have significantly increased in recent years. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of Qur'an recitation on anxiety in hemodialysis patients. Sixty hemodialysis patients were randomized to ei ... Full text Link to item Cite

A cross-sectional study of anxiety and marital quality among women with breast cancer at a university clinic in western Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Saudi Med J · October 2015 OBJECTIVES: To examine relationship between the quality of marital relationship and anxiety among women with breast cancer (BC) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS: This cross-sectional study recruited a consecutive series of 49 married women wit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric evaluation of the Persian version of the Type 2 Diabetes and Health Promotion Scale (T2DHPS): a diabetes-specific measure of lifestyle.

Journal Article Scand J Caring Sci · September 2015 BACKGROUND: A healthy lifestyle is important for maintaining health and preventing complications in patients with type 2 diabetes, and yet, few instruments are available to measure this. AIM: The aim of the present study was to examine the psychometrics of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression in patients with colorectal cancer in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Psychooncology · September 2015 OBJECTIVE: Persons with colon cancer experience considerable psychological stress due to physical and social changes brought on by illness, increasing their risk of depressive disorder (DD). We examine the prevalence of DD and depressive symptoms and deter ... Full text Link to item Cite

Belief into action scale: A comprehensive and sensitive measure of religious involvement

Journal Article Religions · August 25, 2015 We describe here a new measure of religious commitment, the Belief into Action (BIAC) scale. This measure was designed to be a comprehensive and sensitive measure of religious involvement that could discriminate individuals across the religious spectrum, a ... Full text Cite

Test-retest reliability of the Muslim Religiosity Scale: follow-up to "Religious involvement and health among dialysis patients in Saudi Arabia".

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2015 The intra-class correlation coefficient for the scale was 0.961, 95 % CI 0.912-0.983. We conclude that the MRS is a highly reliable measure of Muslim religiosity over time. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prospective study of depression among dialysis patients in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Int Urol Nephrol · June 2015 OBJECTIVES: The purpose was to determine the short-term course of depression among dialysis patients in Saudi Arabia and identify baseline characteristics that may influence course. METHODS: Thirty-nine dialysis patients in Jeddah, SA, were identified with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric Properties of the Farsi Version of Hoge Intrinsic Religiosity Scale in Muslims: A Brief Report

Journal Article Pastoral Psychology · April 28, 2015 Over the past decade, researchers have paid increased attention to the relationship between religion and health. Although interest in research on religion and health in Iran is just beginning, it is growing rapidly. Despite the expanding research in this f ... Full text Cite

Religious/spiritual characteristics of indian and indonesian physicians and their acceptance of spirituality in health care: a cross-cultural comparison.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2015 Religious/spiritual (r/s) characteristics of physicians influence their attitude toward integrative medicine and spiritual care. Indonesia physicians collaborate with traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) professionals within modern h ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious involvement and health in dialysis patients in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article J Relig Health · April 2015 Patients on hemodialysis experience considerable psychological and physical stress due to the changes brought on by chronic kidney disease. Religion is often turned to in order to cope with illness and may buffer some of these stresses associated with illn ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious vs. conventional cognitive behavioral therapy for major depression in persons with chronic medical illness: a pilot randomized trial.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · April 2015 We examine the efficacy of conventional cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) versus religiously integrated CBT (RCBT) in persons with major depression and chronic medical illness. Participants were randomized to either CCBT (n = 67) or RCBT (n = 65). The in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and Health: Clinical Considerations and Applications

Chapter · March 26, 2015 This article provides a brief review of research on religion and health and suggested clinical applications. Most of the research reviewed was published between 1960 and 2010 and is based on a systematic review, although more selected recent research has a ... Full text Cite

Health related quality of life among military personnel: what socio-demographic factors are important?

Journal Article Applied Research in Quality of Life · March 1, 2015 Health related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important indicator of health status. Knowledge about factors related to HRQOL among military personnel may assist in designing programs to maximize their fitness and readiness for action when called upon. The a ... Full text Cite

Religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy: a new method of treatment for major depression in patients with chronic medical illness.

Journal Article Psychotherapy (Chic) · March 2015 Intervention studies have found that psychotherapeutic interventions that explicitly integrate clients' spiritual and religious beliefs in therapy are as effective, if not more so, in reducing depression than those that do not for religious clients. Howeve ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious involvement and tobacco use in mainland China: a preliminary study.

Journal Article BMC Public Health · February 18, 2015 BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking causes serious health, economic, and social problems throughout the world. Religious involvement is known to be an important predictor of health behaviors and substance use. The present study examines the correlation between r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious involvement, suicidal ideation and behavior in mainland China.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2015 OBJECTIVE: Little is known about relations between religious involvement and suicidal behaviors in mainland China. This study aims to examine the association between religious involvement and suicidal ideation, planning, and attempts within a general commu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious involvement and mental disorders in mainland china.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2015 PURPOSE: The present study aims to examine the association between religious involvement and mental disorder (anxiety disorder, mood disorder, alcohol use disorder) in a general Chinese population, and explore connections between religious belief and menta ... Full text Link to item Cite

Measures of Religiosity

Chapter · January 1, 2015 The measurement of religiosity and spirituality is increasingly common in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as within medicine and the medical and psychological sciences. However, attempting to measure and quantify such vague, nebulous, and seemi ... Full text Cite

Religion, spirituality, and health: a review and update.

Journal Article Adv Mind Body Med · 2015 This article summarizes research prior to 2010 and more recent research on religion, spirituality, and health, including some of the latest work being done by research teams at Columbia University, Harvard University, Duke University, and other academic me ... Link to item Cite

The spiritual care team: Enabling the practice of whole person medicine

Journal Article Religions · December 9, 2014 We will soon be piloting a project titled “Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care” that will form “spiritual care teams” to assess and address patients’ spiritual needs in physician outpatient practices within Adventist Health System, the largest Prote ... Full text Cite

Indian health care professionals' attitude towards spiritual healing and its role in alleviating stigma of psychiatric services.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2014 Persons with mental illnesses in India and rest of developing world continue to consult religious/spiritual (R/S) healers or traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) professionals prior to seeking psychiatric services that are devoid of s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Health education via mobile text messaging for glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Journal Article Prim Care Diabetes · December 2014 BACKGROUND: Diabetes type 2 is an increasing problem worldwide that may be managed through education. Text-messaging using a cell phone can assist with self-care. The aim of this study was to systematically review the impact of education through mobile tex ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression in patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Int Urol Nephrol · December 2014 OBJECTIVE: Patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis experience considerable psychological stress due to physical and social changes brought on by illness, increasing the risk of depressive disorder (DD). We examined the prevalence of DD and dep ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity/spirituality of German doctors in private practice and likelihood of addressing R/S issues with patients.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2014 This study examined the self-assessed religiosity and spirituality (R/S) of a representative sample of German physicians in private practice (n = 414) and how this related to their addressing R/S issues with patients. The majority of physicians (49.3 %)rep ... Full text Link to item Cite

Introduction

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Attitudes of Muslim physicians and nurses toward religious issues.

Journal Article J Relig Health · October 2014 There is a growing body of evidence that suggests a positive role for religious involvement in physical and mental health. Studies have shown that attitudes of physicians toward religion affect their relationship with patients and their medical decisions, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Duke University Religion Index in college students and community residents in China.

Journal Article Psychol Rep · October 2014 A Chinese version of the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) was developed and the psychometric properties were assessed. The study was conducted in two separate samples of 1,285 college students and 2,564 community residents. To assess test-retest reli ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious involvement is associated with greater purpose, optimism, generosity and gratitude in persons with major depression and chronic medical illness.

Journal Article J Psychosom Res · August 2014 OBJECTIVE: Religious involvement may help individuals with chronic medical illness cope better with physical disability and other life changes. We examine the relationships between religiosity, depressive symptoms, and positive emotions in persons with maj ... Full text Link to item Cite

Female sexual dysfunction in patients with spinal cord injury: a study from Iran.

Journal Article Spinal Cord · August 2014 OBJECTIVES: We assess the prevalence of sexual dysfunction in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), compare sexual function and sexual distress between female patients with SCI and gender-matched healthy controls, and address risk factors associated with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric properties of the Persian spiritual coping strategies scale in hemodialysis patients.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2014 Spiritual strategies may provide an effective way of coping with disease. This study sought to investigate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the spiritual coping strategies (SCS) scale among Iranian hemodialysis patients. A convenience ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perspectives of Indian traditional and allopathic professionals on religion/spirituality and its role in medicine: basis for developing an integrative medicine program.

Journal Article J Relig Health · August 2014 Allopathic medical professionals in developed nations have started to collaborate with traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) to enquire on the role of religion/spirituality (r/s) in patient care. There is scant evidence of such moveme ... Full text Link to item Cite

Borderline Personality Disorder and Religion: A perspective from a Muslim country.

Journal Article Iran J Psychiatry · July 2014 BACKGROUND: There are still many unanswered questions about psychological and social factors that may affect the development and treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Religion/spirituality (R/S) is a factor that could influence the lives of p ... Link to item Cite

Inflammation and Coagulation as Mediators in the Relationships Between Religious Attendance and Functional Limitations in Older Adults.

Journal Article J Aging Health · June 2014 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine inflammation and coagulation, which are positively linked to disability and inversely linked to increased religious attendance, as mediators in the cross-sectional relationships between religious attendance a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nursing home care: exploring the role of religiousness in the mental health, quality of life and stress of formal caregivers.

Journal Article J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs · June 2014 Despite the high number of studies on family caregivers, there is little research on the impact of religiosity on formal caregiving (paid providers). We examine the role of religiousness in the mental health, quality of life and stress of nurse aides (NA) ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of maternal breast cancer on school-aged children in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article BMC Res Notes · April 23, 2014 BACKGROUND: We examine whether mothers with breast cancer told their children about the diagnosis, explore mothers' perceptions of the impact of doing so on the mother-child relationship, and assess perceptions of how this affected the children. METHODS: A ... Full text Link to item Cite

Brief Trust/Mistrust in God Scale: Psychometric properties of the Farsi version in Muslims

Journal Article Mental Health, Religion and Culture · April 1, 2014 In Iran, a Middle Eastern Islamic country, far too little attention has been paid to the validation and cultural adaptation of measures of religion/spirituality. This has limited the potential for research in this area. The objective of the paper is to ass ... Full text Cite

Psychometric properties of the Iranian version of the female sexual distress scale-revised in women.

Journal Article J Sex Med · April 2014 INTRODUCTION: Several tools for the assessment of sexuality-related distress are now available. The Female Sexual Distress Scale (FSDS) and its revised version (FSDS-R) are extensively validated and among the most widely used tools to measure sexually rela ... Full text Link to item Cite

Could spirituality and religion promote stress resilience in survivors of childhood trauma?

Journal Article Issues Ment Health Nurs · April 2014 Trauma is a precursor to many mental health conditions that greatly impact victims, their loved ones, and society. Studies indicate that neurobiological associations with adverse childhood experiences are mediated by interpersonal relationships and play a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality and health

Journal Article Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine · March 6, 2014 Full text Cite

To heal and restore broken bodies: a retrospective, descriptive study of the role and impact of pastoral care in the treatment of patients with burn injury.

Journal Article Ann Plast Surg · March 2014 INTRODUCTION: Despite advances in resuscitation, resurfacing, and reconstruction, recovery in burn patients often depends upon emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual healing. We characterized the spiritual needs of burn patients to help identify resources ... Full text Link to item Cite

Health and well-being in Islamic societies: Background, research, and applications

Book · March 1, 2014 From the first hospitals to pioneering pharmacy techniques, the early history of medicine reflects the groundbreaking contributions of Islamic physicians and scientists. Less recognized, however, is the impact of Islam on the health and daily health practi ... Full text Cite

Personal hygiene among military personnel: developing and testing a self-administered scale.

Journal Article Environ Health Prev Med · March 2014 OBJECTIVE: Good personal hygiene (PH) behavior is recommended to prevent contagious diseases, and members of military forces may be at high risk for contracting contagious diseases. The aim of this study was to develop and test a new questionnaire on PH fo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious beliefs and alcohol control policies: a Brazilian nationwide study.

Journal Article Braz J Psychiatry · 2014 OBJECTIVE: The connection between lower alcohol use and religiousness has been extensively examined. Nevertheless, few studies have assessed how religion and religiousness influence public policies. The present study seeks to understand the influence of re ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality and health.

Journal Article Evid Based Complement Alternat Med · 2014 Full text Link to item Cite

Depression in chronic illness: does religion help?

Journal Article J Christ Nurs · 2014 This article examines the impact of depression on patients, reviews research on the the relationship between religious involvement and depression, and explores the potential role of religious cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in the treatment of depressio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical implications of spirituality to mental health: review of evidence and practical guidelines.

Journal Article Braz J Psychiatry · 2014 OBJECTIVE: Despite empirical evidence of a relationship between religiosity/spirituality (R/S) and mental health and recommendations by professional associations that these research findings be integrated into clinical practice, application of this knowled ... Full text Link to item Cite

Determinants of health status among patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis: The role of demographic, clinical and health related quality of life variables

Journal Article Journal of Musculoskeletal Research · January 1, 2014 Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common chronic disease especially among older adults and has a considerable negative impact on health status (HS). This study investigated associations between demographic, clinical and health related quality of life (HRQOL) factor ... Full text Cite

Faith-based organizations and the provision of care for older people

Chapter · January 1, 2014 The global, accelerated growth and increased longevity of the older population is a continually emerging and important issue to understand and address. This worldwide graying of populations has broad-reaching socioeconomic, psychosocial and medical implica ... Full text Cite

Religion and prevention of illness in later life

Chapter · January 1, 2014 Religion beliefs and behaviors are common among older adults. This is true for the elderly in the community (Princeton Religion Research Center, 1982) and those in medical outpatient settings (Koenig, Moberg, & Kvale 1988). This high prevalence of religiou ... Full text Cite

The obsessive-compulsive disorder: Pastoral care for the road to change

Book · January 1, 2014 Gain scientific and theological insight into OCD! The Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Pastoral Care for the Road to Change delivers a provocative and stimulating discussion that is meant to inspire new areas of inquiry on this subject. As an OCD sufferer, p ... Full text Cite

Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self

Book · January 1, 2014 Help your clients gain access to the transformative grace of God through Christ! All too often, psychology and spirituality are kept in separate boxes, lessening the power of each to work effective changes. Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self brin ... Full text Cite

Medical students, spirituality and religiosity--results from the multicenter study SBRAME.

Journal Article BMC Med Educ · December 7, 2013 BACKGROUND: To evaluate the relationship between spirituality/religiosity (S/R) and the attitudes, beliefs and experiences of medical students in Brazil with respect to S/R in their undergraduate training and clinical practice. METHODS: SBRAME (Spiritualit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Chronic pain: Biomedical and spiritual approaches

Book · December 1, 2013 Help your clients achieve victory over chronic pain and lead more fulfilling lives! This insightful and informative book will help you deliver better pain management services to the people you care for. Incorporating biomedical, surgical, psychological, so ... Full text Cite

Why gerontologists should care about empirical research on religion and health: transdisciplinary perspectives.

Journal Article Gerontologist · December 2013 A large volume of empirical research has accumulated on the relationship between religion/spirituality (R/S) and health since the year 2000, much of it involving older adults. The purpose of this article is to discuss how this body of existing research fin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Re-examining definitions of spirituality in nursing research.

Journal Article J Adv Nurs · December 2013 AIM: To discuss the definition of spirituality and its limitations for nursing research. It proposes a definition that will capture more accurately the role of spirituality in health outcomes. BACKGROUND: Studies have increasingly examined spirituality in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting the Trajectories of Perceived Pain Intensity in Southern Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Role of Religiousness.

Journal Article Res Aging · November 1, 2013 This study focuses on the identification of multiple latent trajectories of pain intensity, and it examines how religiousness is related to different classes of pain trajectory. Participants were 720 community-dwelling older adults who were interviewed at ... Full text Link to item Cite

Is religion good for your health?: The effects of religion on physical and mental health

Book · October 23, 2013 Is Religion Good for Your Health? takes you deep into the heart of the ageless debate on the importance of religion and faith to physical and mental health. On the one hand, you will learn about important research findings from cross-sectional, longitudina ... Full text Cite

Somebody's knocking at your door: AIDS and the African-American church

Book · October 8, 2013 Examining the black church's response to AIDS, Somebody's Knocking at Your Door: AIDS and the African-American Church analyzes sexual ethics and homophobia in the black church to provide pastors, social workers, and health professionals with intervention s ... Full text Cite

Typologies of religiousness/spirituality: implications for health and well-being.

Journal Article J Relig Health · September 2013 The purpose of this study was to develop empirically based typologies of religiousness/spirituality (R/S) and to determine whether the typologies were related to health and well-being. The study used a nationally representative sample of adults (N=1,431). ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of depression in Christian patients with medical illness

Journal Article Mental Health, Religion and Culture · September 1, 2013 Psychotherapy and religion are two widely utilised resources among people suffering from mental and physical illness. Intervention studies have found that integrating clients' spiritual and religious beliefs in therapy is at least as effective, if not more ... Full text Cite

Mental health system in Saudi Arabia: An overview

Journal Article Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment · August 7, 2013 Background: There is evidence that mapping mental health systems (MHSs) helps in planning and developing mental health care services for users, families, and other caregivers. The General Administration of Mental Health and Social Services of the Ministry ... Full text Cite

Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL): a study on Muslims.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2013 The aim of this study was translation and validation of the Duke University Religion Index in Iranian Muslims. The study was performed in two stages. In the first stage, 1,762 college students from Qazvin city with an average age of 21.2 years participated ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental disorders, religion and spirituality 1990 to 2010: a systematic evidence-based review.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2013 Religion/spirituality has been increasingly examined in medical research during the past two decades. Despite the increasing number of published studies, a systematic evidence-based review of the available data in the field of psychiatry has not been done ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual coping, religiosity and quality of life: a study on Muslim patients undergoing haemodialysis.

Journal Article Nephrology (Carlton) · April 2013 AIM: The number of haemodialysis patients globally is increasing and spiritual resources may help overcome adjustment problems among such patients. This study examined the relationships between spiritual/religious, demographic and clinical variables and qu ... Full text Link to item Cite

A spiritual problem? Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' interpretations of medically unexplained symptoms.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · March 2013 BACKGROUND: Patients commonly present to their physicians with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), and there is no consensus about how physicians should interpret or treat such symptoms. OBJECTIVE: To examine how variations in physicians' interpretations ... Full text Link to item Cite

Existential relatedness in light of eudemonic well-being and religious coping among middle-aged and older cardiac patients.

Journal Article J Health Psychol · March 2013 This study examined the prediction of preoperative faith factors for perceived spiritual support, indicating existential relationship as a dimension of eudemonic well-being (EWB), at 30 months after cardiac surgery (N=226). The study capitalized on data fr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality and cardiovascular disease: research, clinical implications, and opportunities in Brazil.

Journal Article Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc · March 2013 In this paper we comprehensively review published quantitative research on the relationship between religion, spirituality (R/S), and cardiovascular (CV) disease, discuss mechanisms that help explain the associations reported, examine the clinical implicat ... Full text Link to item Cite

"You need a song to bring you through": the use of religious songs to manage stressful life events.

Journal Article Gerontologist · February 2013 PURPOSE: To explore in a sample of older African Americans how religious songs were used to cope with stressful life events and to explore the religious beliefs associated with these songs. DESIGN AND METHODS: Sixty-five African American older adults resid ... Full text Link to item Cite

Measuring Intrinsic Religiosity: Scales for use in mental health studies in China - a research report

Journal Article Mental Health, Religion and Culture · February 1, 2013 While Hoge Intrinsic Religiosity Scale and the Duke University Religion Index have gained popularity in the field of religion and mental health, it remains unknown whether these scales are optimal measures of religiosity in the Chinese culture. This study ... Full text Cite

The Duke University Religion Index (DUREL): validation and reliability of the Farsi version.

Journal Article Psychol Rep · February 2013 This study examined the validation and reliability of the Farsi version of the Duke University Religion Index (FDUREL), a brief measure designed to evaluate the primary dimensions of religiosity. The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

The psychological well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS and the role of religious coping and social support.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2013 OBJECTIVE: This study examined correlates of depressive symptoms, particularly the role of religious coping (RCOPE), among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). The study also examined social support as a possible mediator of the proposed association betwee ... Full text Link to item Cite

Current state of psychiatry in Saudi Arabia.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2013 BACKGROUND: In 1983, an article and accompanying editorial was published on the state of psychiatry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), which was described as "a mental health system in statu nascendi." METHODS: We provide a 30-year update on advances in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Foreword

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A gospel for the mature years: Finding fulfillment by knowing and using your gifts

Book · January 1, 2013 There’s good news for middle-aged and older adults who wish to grow emotionally and spiritually and experience satisfaction and joy in their mature years regardless of circumstance, health, or age. A Gospel for the Mature Years shows you how to achieve joy ... Full text Cite

Reading the Bible for guidance, comfort, and strength during stressful life events.

Journal Article Nurs Res · 2013 BACKGROUND: The use of religious practices to promote mental health among African Americans is well documented. African Americans are more likely to report strong religious affiliations and to use religion over prescribed medications for mental health prob ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious and spiritual factors in depression

Journal Article Depression Research and Treatment · December 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Religious and spiritual factors in depression: Review and integration of the research

Journal Article Depression Research and Treatment · December 1, 2012 Depressive symptoms and religious/spiritual (R/S) practices are widespread around the world, but their intersection has received relatively little attention from mainstream mental health professionals. This paper reviews and synthesizes quantitative resear ... Full text Cite

Does death of a family member moderate the relationship between religious attendance and depressive symptoms? the HUNT study, Norway

Journal Article Depression Research and Treatment · December 1, 2012 Background. The death of a family member is a stressful life event and can result in an increased level of depressive symptoms. Previous American research has shown inverse relationships between religious involvement and depression. European investigations ... Full text Open Access Cite

Longitudinal relationships of religion with posttreatment depression severity in older psychiatric patients: Evidence of direct and indirect effects

Journal Article Depression Research and Treatment · December 1, 2012 Psychiatric patients (age 59+) were assessed before study treatment for major depressive disorder, and again after 3 months. Measures taken before study treatment included facets of religiousness (subjective religiosity, private prayer, worship attendance, ... Full text Open Access Cite

Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' approaches to treating mild depression.

Journal Article Acta Psychiatr Scand · November 2012 OBJECTIVE: To measure how primary care physicians (PCPs) and psychiatrists treat mild depression. METHOD: We surveyed a national sample of US PCPs and psychiatrists using a vignette of a 52-year-old man with depressive symptoms not meeting Major Depressive ... Full text Link to item Cite

Unmet spiritual care needs impact emotional and spiritual well-being in advanced cancer patients.

Journal Article Support Care Cancer · October 2012 PURPOSE: Spiritual care is an important part of healthcare, especially when facing the crisis of advanced cancer. Do oncology inpatients receive spiritual care consistent with their needs? When inconsistent, are there deleterious effects on patient outcome ... Full text Link to item Cite

The complex association between religious activities and functional limitations in older adults.

Journal Article Gerontologist · October 2012 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: To examine the longitudinal associations between 3 dimensions of religious involvement-religious attendance, use of religious media, and private religious activities-and 3 domains of functional status-limitations in basic activities o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious coping and quality of life among individuals living with schizophrenia.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · October 1, 2012 OBJECTIVE This study investigated the relationship between positive and negative religious coping and quality of life among outpatients with schizophrenia. METHODS Interviews were conducted with 63 adults in the southeastern United States. Religious coping ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and mental health: current controversies and future directions.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · October 2012 Although studies examining religion, spirituality, and mental health generally indicate positive associations, there is a need for more sophisticated methodology, greater discrimination between different cultures and traditions, more focus on situated expe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, Spirituality, and Healing: Research, Dialogue, and Directions

Chapter · September 18, 2012 This article investigates the roles of religion and spirituality in health and healing. It is the result of a keynote presentation and a workshop dialogue that were part of the conference "Music, Medicine, and Culture: Medical Ethnomusicology and Global Pe ... Full text Cite

Spirituality and health in the curricula of medical schools in Brazil.

Journal Article BMC Med Educ · August 18, 2012 BACKGROUND: According to recent surveys, 59% of British medical schools and 90% of US medical schools have courses or content on spirituality and health (S/H). There is little research, however, on the teaching of S/H in medical schools in other countries, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Validation of the Duke Religion Index: DUREL (Portuguese version).

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2012 The purpose of the current study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Duke Religion Index (PDUREL) in a community setting. PDUREL was translated and adapted for administration to 383 individuals from a population-base ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality and mental health in the West and the Middle East.

Journal Article Asian J Psychiatr · June 2012 Research on religion, spirituality and mental health has been rapidly accumulating from Western countries and now increasingly from the Middle East. We review here the latest research on this topic from these two areas of the world, one largely Christian a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Commentary: why do research on spirituality and health, and what do the results mean?

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2012 I address two related questions in this article. First, why conduct research on religion/spirituality (R/S) and health? Second, what are the dangers of misinterpreting or misapplying the results from such research? If relationships are found, so what? What ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physicians' beliefs about faith-based treatments for alcoholism.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · June 2012 OBJECTIVE: The study examined physicians' beliefs about faith-based alcohol treatments vis-à-vis Alcoholics Anonymous, pharmacologic treatment, and residential treatment. METHODS: A survey was mailed to a national sample of U.S. primary care physicians and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity and tobacco and alcohol use in a Brazilian shantytown.

Journal Article Subst Use Misuse · June 2012 This article analyzes the role of religious involvement and religious beliefs in the prevalence and frequency of smoking and alcohol consumption. This was a cross-sectional, population-based study. In 2005, we conducted door-to-door interviews with 383 peo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Discovering a blissful island: Religious involvement and happiness in Taiwan

Journal Article Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review · March 1, 2012 While most of the existing research on religious involvement and happiness has been conducted in the Western, predominantly Christian setting, our study attempts to contribute to this literature by focusing on a non-Western, non-Christian society. Using a ... Full text Cite

Religious and Spiritual Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis: Considerations for the DSM-V

Chapter · February 27, 2012 This book aims to inform and explain, as well as to be thought provoking and even controversial. ... Cite

Religion and the presence and severity of depression in older adults.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · February 2012 OBJECTIVES: : To examine the associations of dimensions of religiousness with the presence and severity of depression in older adults. DESIGN: : Cross-sectional analysis of clinical and interview data. SETTING: : Private university-affiliated medical cente ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting the trajectories of depressive symptoms among southern community-dwelling older adults: the role of religiosity.

Journal Article Aging Ment Health · 2012 BACKGROUND: This study examined the effects of religiosity on the trajectories of depressive symptoms in a sample of community-dwelling older adults over a four-year period in a Southern state in the U.S. METHODS: Data from the University of Alabama at Bir ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality and religion in outpatients with schizophrenia: a multi-site comparative study of Switzerland, Canada, and the United States.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2012 OBJECTIVE: To assess the importance of spirituality and religious coping among outpatients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder living in three countries. METHOD: A total of 276 outpatients (92 from Geneva, Switzerland, 121 ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effect of prayer on depression and anxiety: maintenance of positive influence one year after prayer intervention.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2012 OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the effect of direct contact person-to-person prayer on depression, anxiety, and positive emotions is maintained after 1 year. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: One-year follow-up of subjects with depression and anxiety w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious versus Conventional Psychotherapy for Major Depression in Patients with Chronic Medical Illness: Rationale, Methods, and Preliminary Results.

Journal Article Depress Res Treat · 2012 This paper (1) reviews the physical and religious barriers to CBT that disabled medically ill-depressed patients face, (2) discusses research on the relationship between religion and depression-induced physiological changes, (3) describes an ongoing random ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and health: the research and clinical implications.

Journal Article ISRN Psychiatry · 2012 This paper provides a concise but comprehensive review of research on religion/spirituality (R/S) and both mental health and physical health. It is based on a systematic review of original data-based quantitative research published in peer-reviewed journal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity is an important part of coping with grief in pregnancy after a traumatic second trimester loss.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2011 Women (n = 15) who were pregnant after a traumatic late pregnancy loss (termination because of fetal death or serious anomalies) completed psychometric screening tests and scales, including the Perinatal Grief Scale (PGS), the Impact of Event Scale (IES), ... Full text Link to item Cite

Work related stress among gynecologic oncologists.

Journal Article Gynecol Oncol · November 2011 OBJECTIVE: Up to one third of oncologists experience burnout. The objective was to determine correlates of work related stress in gynecologic oncologists (GOs). METHODS: Using an online tool, we surveyed 273 members of the International Gynecologic Cancer ... Full text Link to item Cite

Afterword: A Physician's Reflections

Book · October 3, 2011 The description of healing provided in this book has cast a wide net, including much more than just physical healing but also healing in relationships with others, healing in relationship with one's own self, healing in one's relationship with God, and hea ... Full text Cite

Afterword: A Physician's Reflections

Book · October 3, 2011 The description of healing provided in this book has cast a wide net, including much more than just physical healing but also healing in relationships with others, healing in relationship with one's own self, healing in one's relationship with God, and hea ... Full text Cite

Religion and Wealth

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Religious and spiritual beliefs of gynecologic oncologists may influence medical decision making.

Journal Article Int J Gynecol Cancer · April 2011 BACKGROUND: Religious (R) and spiritual (S) beliefs often affect patients' health care decisions, particularly with regard to care at the end of life. Furthermore, patients desire more R/S involvement by the medical community; however, physicians typically ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality and psychological well-being: testing a theory of family interdependence among family caregivers and their elders.

Journal Article Res Nurs Health · April 2011 The family spirituality-psychological well-being model was developed and tested to explore how spirituality influences psychological well-being among elders and caregivers in the context of Korean family caregiving. The sample consisted of 157 Korean elder ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious factors and hippocampal atrophy in late life.

Journal Article PLoS One · March 30, 2011 Despite a growing interest in the ways spiritual beliefs and practices are reflected in brain activity, there have been relatively few studies using neuroimaging data to assess potential relationships between religious factors and structural neuroanatomy. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiousness affects mental health, pain and quality of life in older people in an outpatient rehabilitation setting.

Journal Article J Rehabil Med · March 2011 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between religiousness and mental health, hospitalization, pain, disability and quality of life in older adults from an outpatient rehabilitation setting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS/ ... Full text Link to item Cite

Why John wasn't healed by prayer: perspectives across disciplines.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2011 Patients and family members often turn to prayer in response to serious, life-threatening illness. Prayer for a miraculous cure is often the request. While prayer can keep hope alive, it may also promote unrealistic expectations that fuel demands for life- ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of spirituality/religiosity on mortality: comparison with other health interventions.

Journal Article Explore (NY) · 2011 Scientists have been interested in the influence of religion on mortality for at least 130 years. Since this time, many debates have been held by researchers who believe or do not believe in this association. The objective of this study is to compare the i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious, spiritual, and traditional beliefs and practices and the ethics of mental health research in less wealthy countries.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2011 This discussion article contributes to ethics reform by introducing the contribution of religious, spiritual, and traditional beliefs and practices to both subject vulnerability and patient improvement. A growing body of evidence suggests that religious, s ... Full text Link to item Cite

The relationship between religious attendance and blood pressure: the HUNT Study, Norway.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2011 OBJECTIVE: Research from the United States shows a possible relationship between religious attendance (RA) and blood pressure (BP). The religious context in the United States differs widely from Scandinavia. The aim was, therefore, to test whether the rela ... Full text Link to item Cite

A randomized controlled trial to assess effectiveness of a spiritually-based intervention to help chronically ill adults.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2011 OBJECTIVE: Creative, cost-effective ways are needed to help older adults deal effectively with chronic diseases. Spiritual beliefs and practices are often used to deal with health problems. We evaluated whether a minimal intervention, consisting of a video ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations of religious behavior and experiences with extent of regional atrophy in the orbitofrontal cortex during older adulthood.

Journal Article Religion Brain Behav · 2011 The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a region of the brain that has been empirically linked with religious or spiritual activity, and atrophy in this region has been shown to contribute to serious mental illness in late life. This study used structural magnet ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious beliefs affect grieving after pregnancy loss.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 2010 Religious beliefs and practices may aid in coping with bereavement and grief after pregnancy loss. Data from 103 women enrolled in the original Lehigh Valley Perinatal Loss Project, and who were followed-up for at least 1 year, were evaluated for the impac ... Full text Link to item Cite

Long-term Adjustment After Surviving Open Heart Surgery: The Effect of Using Prayer for Coping Replicated in a Prospective Design.

Journal Article Gerontologist · December 2010 PURPOSE: despite the growing evidence for effects of religious factors on cardiac health in general populations, findings are not always consistent in sicker and older populations. We previously demonstrated that short-term negative outcomes (depression an ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Duke University Religion Index (DUREL): A five-item measure for use in epidemological studies

Journal Article Religions · December 1, 2010 There is need for a brief measure of religiosity that can be included in epidemiological surveys to examine relationships between religion and health outcomes. The Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) is a five-item measure of religious involvement, and ... Full text Cite

Spiritual needs of patients with chronic diseases

Journal Article Religions · November 12, 2010 For many patients confronted with chronic diseases, spirituality/religiosity is an important resource for coping. Patients often report unmet spiritual and existential needs, and spiritual support is also associated with better quality of life. Caring for ... Full text Cite

Religiosity and decreased risk of substance use disorders: is the effect mediated by social support or mental health status?

Journal Article Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol · August 2010 OBJECTIVE: The negative association between religiosity (religious beliefs and church attendance) and the likelihood of substance use disorders is well established, but the mechanism(s) remain poorly understood. We investigated whether this association was ... Full text Link to item Cite

Episcopal measure of faith tradition: a context-specific approach to measuring religiousness.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2010 Precise measurement of religiousness remains a vexing problem. In addition to relying almost exclusively on self-report, existing measures of religiousness pay little attention to the specific context of religious belief, and this may override distinctive ... Full text Link to item Cite

Beliefs about God, psychiatric symptoms, and evolutionary psychiatry.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2010 The present study analyzed the association between specific beliefs about God and psychiatric symptoms among a representative sample of 1,306 U.S. adults. Three pairs of beliefs about God served as the independent variables: Close and Loving, Approving and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Immune, Neuroendocrine, and Religious Measures

Chapter · April 1, 2010 A number of solid organs, cellular components and soluble proteins make up the immune system. These include the lymphoid tissues, lymphocytes and other immune cells, and immunoglobulins and cytokines. This chapter discusses measures of immune function, neu ... Full text Cite

The Connection between Psychoneuroimmunology and Religion

Chapter · April 1, 2010 Psychoneuroimmunology is the study of how social and psychological factors affect neuroendocrine and immune functioning. Religion involves beliefs about the transcendent, as well as private or communal practices and rituals that reflect devotion or commitm ... Full text Cite

The Link Between Religion and Health: Psychoneuroimmunology and the Faith Factor

Book · April 1, 2010 This book presents new medical research establishing a connection between religion and health and examines the implications for Eastern and Western religious traditions and for society and culture. It examines a series of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) topics ... Full text Cite

Avenues for Future Research

Chapter · April 1, 2010 This chapter explores avenues for future research in the area of religion, spirituality and psychoneuroimmunology. Recommendations are made based in part on a recent conference at Duke University Medical Center that brought together the world's leading exp ... Full text Cite

Psychological Stress and Autoimmune Disease

Chapter · April 1, 2010 This chapter looks at diseases which result not from a hypoactive immune system but rather from an immune system functioning in an exaggerated or uncontrolled fashion. This is seen in autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, Graves's di ... Full text Cite

Psychosocial Factors, Immunity, and Wound Healing

Chapter · April 1, 2010 This chapter reviews the work of Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Ron Glaser and others who have investigated the effects of psychological stress and social support on immune functioning and wound healing. This area of research is of particular importance because of ... Full text Cite

Introduction

Journal Article The Link Between Religion and Health: Psychoneuroimmunology and the Faith Factor · April 1, 2010 On July 12 1999, twelve of the world's leading psychoneuroimmunologists, theologians and physicians gathered at Duke University to discuss the effects of stress on the immune system and to see how this knowledge might inform us about the religion-health re ... Full text Cite

A prospective study of religion/spirituality and depressive symptoms among adolescent psychiatric patients.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · January 2010 OBJECTIVE: Previous research has uncovered relationships between religion/spirituality and depressive disorders. Proposed mechanisms through which religion may impact depression include decreased substance use and enhanced social support. Little investigat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality and mental health

Journal Article International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies · January 1, 2010 Spirituality is increasingly being examined as a factor in mental health. Recent studies have found that spirituality may serve as a psychological and social resource for coping with stress. After defining the term spirituality, this paper examines some of ... Full text Cite

Coping as a mediator in the relationships of spiritual well-being to mental health in black women with type 2 diabetes.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2010 OBJECTIVE: Examine coping as a mediator in the relationships of spiritual well-being to mental health in Black women with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). METHODS: Using a cross-sectional design, data were collected from a convenience sample of 45 Black women with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality in medical school curricula: findings from a national survey.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2010 OBJECTIVE: No systematic information exists on what U.S. medical schools are teaching on spirituality and health or on the attitudes of faculty toward inclusion of this subject in the medical curriculum. We systematically surveyed U.S. medical school deans ... Full text Link to item Cite

Conceptualising spirituality for medical research and health service provision.

Journal Article BMC Health Serv Res · July 13, 2009 The need to take account of spirituality in research and health services provision is assuming ever greater importance. However the field has long been hampered by a lack of conceptual clarity about the nature of spirituality itself. We do not agree with t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Research on religion, spirituality, and mental health: a review.

Journal Article Can J Psychiatry · May 2009 Religious and spiritual factors are increasingly being examined in psychiatric research. Religious beliefs and practices have long been linked to hysteria, neurosis, and psychotic delusions. However, recent studies have identified another side of religion ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and spirituality in psychiatry

Book · January 1, 2009 Although medicine is practiced in a secular setting, religious and spiritual issues have an impact on patient perspectives regarding their health and the management of any disorders that may afflict them. This is especially true in psychiatry, as feelings ... Full text Cite

Religion, spirituality, and consultation-liaison psychiatry

Chapter · January 1, 2009 SUMMARY Religious beliefs and practices play an important role in enabling medical patients to cope with disability, dependency, fear, loss of control, and unpleasant medical symptoms. Besides influencing the development and course of emotional disorders s ... Full text Cite

Conclusion: Summary of what clinicians need to know

Chapter · January 1, 2009 In editing this book, our desire was to provide clinicians with knowledge about religion and mental health that would be useful in the treatment of patients with psychiatric disorders. In addition, we thought that clinicians would also find useful informat ... Full text Cite

Religion, spirituality, and anxiety disorders

Chapter · January 1, 2009 SUMMARY Anxiety disorders are widely prevalent in the United States and around the world. Religious beliefs and activities are likewise prevalent and are often inversely correlated with anxiety symptoms. Furthermore, clinical trials show that religious the ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Key concepts

Chapter · January 1, 2009 WHY THIS BOOK? Patients facing illnesses may often use religion as a way to cope with the illness. What is problematic, however, is that sometimes symptoms have religious elements (e.g., delusion with religious content). However, clinicians involved in psy ... Full text Cite

A randomized trial of the effect of prayer on depression and anxiety.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2009 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of direct contact person-to-person prayer on depression, anxiety, positive emotions, and salivary cortisol levels. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Cross-over clinical trial with depression or anxiety conducted in an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion/Spirituality and adolescent psychiatric symptoms: a review.

Journal Article Child Psychiatry Hum Dev · December 2008 The aim of the current article is to review the literature on religion and spirituality as it pertains to adolescent psychiatric symptoms. One hundred and fifteen articles were reviewed that examined relationships between religion/spirituality and adolesce ... Full text Link to item Cite

The WORD (wholeness, oneness, righteousness, deliverance): a faith-based weight-loss program utilizing a community-based participatory research approach.

Journal Article Health Educ Behav · October 2008 Despite multidisciplinary efforts to control the nation's obesity epidemic, obesity has persisted as one of the U.S.'s top public health problems, particularly among African Americans. Innovative approaches to address obesity that are sensitive to the uniq ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiousness and spirituality in fibromyalgia and chronic pain patients.

Journal Article Curr Pain Headache Rep · October 2008 The influence of psychosocial factors on pain experience and patient response has received increasing interest and recognition. Patients with chronic pain from several sources (eg, musculoskeletal, cancer, or sickle cell) usually report that religiousness ... Full text Link to item Cite

Health behaviour, depression and religiosity in older patients admitted to intermediate care.

Journal Article Int J Geriatr Psychiatry · July 2008 OBJECTIVE: To examine health behaviour, severity of depression, gender differences and religiosity in older patients admitted to intermediate care for further rehabilitation. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS: A research physiotherapist intervie ... Full text Link to item Cite

Measuring religiousness in health research: review and critique.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 2008 Although existing measures of religiousness are sophisticated, no single approach has yet emerged as a standard. We review the measures of religiousness most commonly used in the religion and health literature with particular attention to their limitations ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and mental health: What should psychiatrists do?

Journal Article Psychiatric Bulletin · June 1, 2008 Full text Cite

Portuguese version of Duke Religious Index - DUREL

Journal Article Revista de Psiquiatria Clinica · May 5, 2008 Full text Cite

Church attendance mediates the association between depressive symptoms and cognitive functioning among older Mexican Americans.

Journal Article J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · May 2008 BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to examine how the effect of depressive symptoms on cognitive function is modified by church attendance. METHODS: We used a sample of 2759 older Mexican Americans. Cognitive function was assessed using the Mini-M ... Full text Link to item Cite

Concerns about measuring "spirituality" in research.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · May 2008 Spirituality is increasingly being examined as a construct related to mental and physical health. The definition of spirituality, however, has been changing. Traditionally, spirituality was used to describe the deeply religious person, but it has now expan ... Full text Link to item Cite

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Journal Article Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease · April 2008 Full text Cite

Religion, spirituality, and depression in adolescent psychiatric outpatients.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · March 2008 This study examines in a preliminary manner the relationship between multiple facets of religion/spirituality and depression in treatment-seeking adolescents. One hundred seventeen psychiatric outpatients aged 12 to 18 completed the brief multidimensional ... Full text Link to item Cite

Frequency of attendance at religious services and mortality in a U.S. national cohort.

Journal Article Ann Epidemiol · February 2008 OBJECTIVE: Few nationally representative cohort studies have appeared on frequency of attendance at religious services and mortality. We test the hypothesis that > weekly attendance compared with nonattendance at religious services is associated with lower ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious and spiritual factors and the consequences of trauma: a review and model of the interrelationship.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2008 OBJECTIVE: An increasing body of literature examines the association of religious factors with posttraumatic stress as well as posttraumatic growth. This review of selected empirical studies describes religious and spiritual factors that have been examined ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hitting the target: why existing measures of "religiousness" are really reverse-scored measures of "secularism".

Journal Article Explore (NY) · 2008 Over 100 measures of religiousness and spirituality are used in research investigating the associations between religion and health. These measures are often used to assess "religiousness in general," but this approach lumps together widely divergent world ... Full text Link to item Cite

Relationships of religion and spirituality to glycemic control in Black women with type 2 diabetes.

Journal Article Nurs Res · 2008 BACKGROUND: Although religion and spirituality are prominent in the lives of Black women with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), there is little research on the relationships of religion and spirituality to glycemic control (GC) in this population. OBJECTIVE: To exam ... Full text Link to item Cite

Why research is important for chaplains.

Journal Article J Health Care Chaplain · 2008 Research forms the basis for all health care disciplines, including nursing, medicine, and psychology. This research is necessary to document both the benefits and the costs of health care services, and applies equally to the services and interventions tha ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nurses and healthcare chaplains: natural allies.

Journal Article J Health Care Chaplain · 2008 The collaborative relationship between nurses and chaplains in the health care setting is well documented. The authors review research findings including survey results demonstrating the importance of religion and spirituality in the general population and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Beliefs about life-after-death, psychiatric symptomology and cognitive theories of psychopathology

Journal Article Journal of Psychology and Theology · January 1, 2008 The present study examined the association between mental health and pleasant and unpleasant beliefs about life-after-death, using data from a national web-based survey of U.S. adults. Regression analyses were conducted on five pleasant and two unpleasant ... Full text Cite

Religiousness and Longitudinal Trajectories in Elders' Functional Status.

Journal Article Res Aging · 2008 The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of religiousness on the trajectories of difficulties with activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs (IADLs) in community-dwelling older adults over a three-year period. Seven waves of data ... Full text Link to item Cite

A tribute to Andrew J. Weaver.

Journal Article J Health Care Chaplain · 2008 Full text Link to item Cite

The BENEFIT through spirituality/religiosity scale--a 6-item measure for use in health outcome studies.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2008 OBJECTIVE: We intended to develop a brief and compact scale which measures the beneficial effects of spirituality/religiosity (SpR) on several dimensions of patients' life concerns, to be used in health outcome studies. METHOD: To attain a short measure va ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality and health: empirically based reflections on recovery.

Journal Article Recent Dev Alcohol · 2008 In this chapter, we explore the spiritual functioning and well-being of individuals and how this relates to mental health and recovery from alcoholism within the conceptual framework of Alcoholics Anonymous. We raise the question of whether the spiritually ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality and psychiatry: A new era in mental health care

Journal Article Revista de Psiquiatria Clinica · December 17, 2007 Full text Cite

Religion, spirituality and psychotic disorders

Journal Article Revista de Psiquiatria Clinica · December 17, 2007 Background: Religion is often included in the beliefs and experiences of psychotic patients, and therefore becomes the target of psychiatric interventions. Objectives: This article examines religious beliefs and activities among nonpsychotic persons in the ... Full text Cite

[Prayers for patients with internal and cardiological diseases--an applicable therapeutic method?].

Journal Article MMW Fortschr Med · December 13, 2007 Previous intercessory prayer studies showed symptom improvement and lower rates of complications in patients who were prayed for, whether it was a direct prayer or a distant intercessory prayer. The effect of intercessory prayer was not observed in cardiol ... Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and medicine: psychiatrists' and other physicians' differing observations, interpretations, and clinical approaches.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · December 2007 OBJECTIVE: This study compared the ways in which psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrists interpret the relationship between religion/spirituality and health and address religion/spirituality issues in the clinical encounter. METHOD: The authors mailed a survey ... Full text Link to item Cite

Beliefs, mental health, and evolutionary threat assessment systems in the brain.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · December 2007 This article reviews aspects of the literature on neuroscience, psychiatry, and cognitive and evolutionary psychology to illustrate how primitive brain mechanisms that evolved to assess environmental threats underlie psychiatric disorders, and how beliefs ... Full text Link to item Cite

In reply [4]

Journal Article Psychiatric Services · November 1, 2007 Full text Cite

Altruistic Love and Physical Health

Chapter · September 1, 2007 This chapter examines the associations between altruistic or unconditional love and physical health. It looks at the mind-body relationship and reviews recent research on the effects of negative emotions on medical outcomes, forming the basis for a model b ... Full text Cite

Physician's role in addressing spiritual needs.

Journal Article South Med J · September 2007 Full text Link to item Cite

The relationship between psychiatry and religion among U.S. physicians.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · September 2007 OBJECTIVE: This study compared the religious characteristics of psychiatrists with those of other physicians and explored whether nonpsychiatrist physicians who are religious are less willing than their colleagues to refer patients to psychiatrists and psy ... Full text Link to item Cite

Introduction: spirituality and catastrophe.

Journal Article South Med J · September 2007 Full text Link to item Cite

Emergency response system in the United States.

Journal Article South Med J · September 2007 Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality and resilience in trauma victims

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Health · September 1, 2007 The way people process stressors is critical in determining whether or not trauma will be experienced. Some clinical and neuroimaging findings suggest that posttraumatic stress disorder patients experience difficulty in synthesizing the traumatic experienc ... Full text Cite

Exploring the relationship between spirituality, coping, and pain.

Journal Article J Behav Med · August 2007 There is growing recognition that persistent pain is a complex and multidimensional experience stemming from the interrelationship among biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors. Chronic pain patients use a number of cognitive and behaviora ... Full text Link to item Cite

Referrals to chaplains: The role of religion and spirituality in healthcare settings

Journal Article Mental Health, Religion and Culture · July 1, 2007 Given the increasing importance of understanding how healthcare workers interact with the principal person designated to meet patients' spiritual needs - the chaplain - the current study provides an inter-disciplinary perspective of the role of chaplains ( ... Full text Cite

Religion and remission of depression in medical inpatients with heart failure/pulmonary disease.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · May 2007 The impact of religious involvement on time to remission of depression was examined in older medical inpatients with heart failure and/or chronic pulmonary disease (CHF/CPD). Inpatients older than 50 years with CHF/CPD were systematically diagnosed with de ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and depression in older medical inpatients.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · April 2007 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to examine the religious characteristics of older medical inpatients with major and minor depression, compare them with religious characteristics of nondepressed patients, and examine their relationship to severity ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physician attitudes toward treatment of depression in older medical inpatients.

Journal Article Aging Ment Health · March 2007 OBJECTIVES: To better understand low treatment (<50%) and psychiatry referral rates (<10%) of depressed older medical patients, we examined medical physicians' characteristics, attitudes and practices regarding treatment. METHODS: Physicians caring for a c ... Full text Link to item Cite

A cluster analysis typology of religiousness/spirituality among older adults

Journal Article Research on Aging · March 1, 2007 This study used cluster analysis to identify sets of individuals similar to one another across multiple measures of religiousness and then ascertained if these groups differed by sociodemographic characteristics, health risk behaviors, physical health and ... Full text Cite

A pilot study on religiousness/spirituality and ADHD.

Journal Article Int J Adolesc Med Health · 2007 BACKGROUND: The phenomena of religiousness and spirituality bear on issues of personal behavioral control and interpersonal relationships. Behavioral control and social relationships can be affected by attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). AIM: ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prayers for patients with internal and cardiological diseases - An applicable therapeutic method?

Journal Article MMW-Fortschritte der Medizin · 2007 Previous intercessory prayer studies showed symptom improvement and lower rates of complications in patients who were prayed for, whether it was a direct prayer or a distant intercessory prayer. The effect of intercessory prayer was not observed in cardiol ... Cite

Recognition of depression in medical patients with heart failure.

Journal Article Psychosomatics · 2007 The author examined physician and patient factors related to recognition of depression in depressed medical patients. Medical inpatients over age 50 were systematically identified with depressive disorder (N=1,000). Medical physicians (N=422) treating thes ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity and self-rated health among Latin American and Caribbean elders.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2007 OBJECTIVE: To describe religious affiliation, importance of religion, and the relationship between religion and self-rated health in persons aged 60 or older living in Latin America or the Caribbean. METHOD: We used data from seven cities (n = 10,587). Mul ... Full text Link to item Cite

Relevance of religion and spirituality in German patients with chronic diseases.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2007 OBJECTIVE: Many American patients depend on religion to cope, but less is known about the spiritual/religious (SpR) characteristics of medical patients in Europe, a more secular environment. We examined self-categorizations of SpR (spiritual, religious, bo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Congregational health ministries: a national study of pastors' views.

Journal Article Public Health Nurs · 2007 OBJECTIVES: Since the 1980s, there has been a growing, but little studied, movement that organizes church-based health services under the direction of a coordinator, usually a registered nurse. These Congregational Health Ministries (CHMs) emphasize health ... Full text Link to item Cite

Major depression and physical illness trajectories in heart failure and pulmonary disease.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · December 2006 The purpose of this study was to examine conjoint trajectories of depression-physical illness in elderly medical inpatients with heart failure and/or chronic pulmonary disease and major depression (MDD), and to identify baseline predictors of trajectory. C ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual Transformation and Healing

Journal Article The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · December 2006 Full text Cite

Predictors of depression outcomes in medical inpatients with chronic pulmonary disease.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · November 2006 OBJECTIVE: Baseline patient characteristics and depression treatments were examined as predictors of speed of depression remission in hospitalized medical patients with chronic pulmonary disease (CPD). METHODS: Consecutively admitted patients over age 50 y ... Full text Link to item Cite

Functional limitations and religious service attendance among African American and white older adults.

Journal Article Health Soc Work · November 2006 Church attendance is associated with improved health and well-being among older adults, but older adults with functional limitations may have difficulty attending church services. This article examines differences in the association between functional limi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality across the lifespan.

Journal Article South Med J · October 2006 Full text Link to item Cite

Suicide in the elderly: case discussion.

Journal Article South Med J · October 2006 Full text Link to item Cite

The spiritual history.

Journal Article South Med J · October 2006 Full text Link to item Cite

Religiousness and mental health: a review.

Journal Article Braz J Psychiatry · September 2006 OBJECTIVE: The relationship between religiosity and mental health has been a perennial source of controversy. This paper reviews the scientific evidence available for the relationship between religion and mental health. METHOD: The authors present the main ... Full text Link to item Cite

Caregiver intervention research: an opportunity for collaboration between caregiving investigators and African-american faith communities.

Journal Article J Natl Med Assoc · September 2006 The African-American community in the United States is rapidly aging. Because friends and family who care for these elderly individuals often do so at the expense of their own physical and psychological well-being, there has been extensive interest in the ... Link to item Cite

Finding tolerance by respecting diversity

Journal Article Futurist · September 1, 2006 Cite

Traumatic stress and religion: Is there a relationship? A review of empirical findings

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Health · September 1, 2006 Based on a history of close conceptual link, empirical studies are beginning to accumulate that investigate the relationship between trauma and religion. A review of empirical studies that examined the relationship between religion/spirituality and PTSD sh ... Full text Cite

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).

Journal Article Soc Sci Med · August 2006 Recent years have seen increasing recognition paid to the relation of religiousness/spirituality (R/S) to health care and research. This has led to the development of more inclusive and trans-culturally validated measurements of R/S. This paper comments on ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of older depressed hospitalized patients with and without heart failure/pulmonary disease.

Journal Article Aging Ment Health · July 2006 Test the hypothesis that depressed hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and/or chronic pulmonary disease (CPD) are no different from depressed patients with other medical disorders, and so can be treated similarly. Consenting patients ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rabbis and health: A half-century review of the mental and physical health care literature: 1950-1999

Journal Article Pastoral Psychology · July 1, 2006 Electronic searches were conducted on PubMed and the American Psychological Association's database (PsycINFO) for articles that discussed the role of rabbis in relation to some aspect of healthcare. The two searches were conducted in each electronic databa ... Full text Cite

Belief in life after death and mental health: findings from a national survey.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · July 2006 The present study examined the association between belief in life after death and six measures of psychiatric symptomology in a national sample of 1403 adult Americans. A statistically significant inverse relationship was found between belief in life after ... Full text Link to item Cite

Handbook of Spirituality and Worldview in Clinical Practice

Journal Article Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease · June 2006 Full text Cite

Depression outcome in inpatients with congestive heart failure.

Journal Article Arch Intern Med · May 8, 2006 BACKGROUND: High rates of depression are found among hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure. Little is known about the outcome of depression in these patients or factors that influence that outcome. METHODS: To assess baseline patient characte ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and their relevance to medicine: An update

Journal Article American Family Physician · April 15, 2006 Cite

Minor depression and physical outcome trajectories in heart failure and pulmonary disease.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · March 2006 We examined conjoint trajectories of depression-physical illness outcomes in elderly inpatients with minor depression and heart failure or pulmonary disease, and identified demographic, psychosocial, physical, and treatment predictors of trajectory. Consec ... Full text Link to item Cite

Differences between depressed patients with heart failure and those with pulmonary disease.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · March 2006 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine differences between depressed medical inpatients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and chronic pulmonary disease (CPD) that could impact the etiology and management of depression in this setting. METH ... Full text Link to item Cite

Do people turn to religion in times of stress?: an examination of change in religiousness among elderly, medically ill patients.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · February 2006 This study examined the effect of health-related stress on changes in religiousness in a sample of elderly, medically ill patients. Patients admitted to Duke University Medical Center (N = 745) were interviewed at baseline and 3-month follow-up. Increases ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality and aging.

Journal Article Aging Ment Health · January 2006 Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of major and minor depression in older medical inpatients with chronic heart and pulmonary disease.

Journal Article Psychosomatics · 2006 Depressed medical inpatients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and/or chronic pulmonary disease (CPD) were examined to determine characteristics distinguishing major depression (N=413) from minor depression (N=587). Consecutively admitted patients age 50 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity, smoking, exercise, and obesity among southern, community-dwelling older adults

Journal Article Journal of Applied Gerontology · August 1, 2005 This study examined associations between organizational (OR), nonorganizational (NOR), and intrinsic religiosity (IR) and measures of cigarette smoking, exercise, and obesity among older adults, controlling for measures ofsociodemographic characteristics a ... Full text Cite

Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study.

Journal Article Lancet · July 16, 2005 BACKGROUND: Data from a pilot study suggested that noetic therapies-healing practices that are not mediated by tangible elements-can reduce preprocedural distress and might affect outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. We under ... Full text Link to item Cite

Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, belief in the afterlife, death anxiety, and life satisfaction in young Catholics and Protestants

Journal Article Journal of Research in Personality · June 1, 2005 One way in which religiosity could promote well-being is by reducing fear of death. The objective of this study was to explore relationships between intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, afterlife belief, death anxiety and life satisfaction in young Catholi ... Full text Cite

Religiosity/spirituality and pain in patients with sickle cell disease.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · April 2005 Religion/spirituality has been identified by individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD) as an important factor in coping with stress and in determining quality of life. Research has demonstrated positive associations between religiosity/spirituality and be ... Full text Link to item Cite

The evangelizing patient

Journal Article Virtual Mentor · January 1, 2005 Full text Cite

A study of religion, ministry, and meaning in caregiving among health professionals in an institutional setting in New York City.

Journal Article J Pastoral Care Counsel · 2005 The clinical staff of a large metropolitan nursing home was surveyed about their religious practices, the degree to which they saw their work as a ministry, and the meaning they obtain from being caregivers. Age, race, gender, education, and various other ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual beliefs and barriers among managed care practitioners.

Journal Article J Relig Health · 2005 PURPOSE: Ninety percent of American adults believe in God and 82% pray weekly. A majority wants their physicians to address spirituality during their health care visit. However, clinicians incorporate spiritual discussion in less than 20% of visits. Our ob ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social versus individual motivation: implications for normative definitions of religious orientation.

Journal Article Pers Soc Psychol Rev · 2005 The traditional interpretation of "intrinsic" religiousness has fostered an unchallenged assumption that normative and substantive religious motivation is inherently individual and personal. Social motives for religiousness and structured practices have be ... Full text Link to item Cite

Editorial: A recap and farewell from the editor

Journal Article INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY IN MEDICINE · January 1, 2005 Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and medicine: research findings and implications for clinical practice.

Journal Article South Med J · December 2004 A growing body of scientific research suggests connections between religion, spirituality, and both mental and physical health. The findings are particularly strong in patients with severe or chronic illnesses who are having stressful psychologic and socia ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual care: whose job is it anyway?

Journal Article South Med J · December 2004 The use of spirituality and religion in coping with illness is widespread among primary care patients. Although the overwhelming majority of healthcare providers agree that they should be aware of patients' spiritual beliefs, that these beliefs may influen ... Full text Link to item Cite

The association between spiritual and religious involvement and depressive symptoms in a Canadian population.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · December 2004 Data from a large epidemiologic survey were examined to determine the relationship of religious practice (worship service attendance), spiritual and religious self-perception, and importance (salience) to depressive symptoms. Data were obtained from 70,884 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious coping methods as predictors of psychological, physical and spiritual outcomes among medically ill elderly patients: a two-year longitudinal study.

Journal Article J Health Psychol · November 2004 A total of 268 medically ill, elderly, hospitalized patients responded to measures of religious coping and spiritual, psychological and physical functioning at baseline and follow-up two years later. After controlling for relevant variables, religious copi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and mysticism.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · September 2004 Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and acute care hospitalization and long-term care use by older patients.

Journal Article Arch Intern Med · July 26, 2004 BACKGROUND: The impact of religion and spirituality on acute care hospitalization (ACH) and long-term care (LTC) in older patients before, during, and after ACH is not well known. METHODS: Patients 50 years or older consecutively admitted to the general me ... Full text Link to item Cite

God at the bedside.

Journal Article N Engl J Med · July 8, 2004 Full text Link to item Cite

Faith-based and secular pathways to hope and optimism subconstructs in middle-aged and older cardiac patients.

Journal Article J Health Psychol · May 2004 This study was designed to fill gaps in the new field of positive psychology. Using data from two sequential interviews, this study examined the effect of faith-based and secular pathways to hope and optimism among 226 middle-aged and older patients facing ... Full text Link to item Cite

Review of Christian Science on Trial [5]

Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine · April 8, 2004 Full text Cite

Religion, spirituality, and health in medically ill hospitalized older patients.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · April 2004 OBJECTIVES: To examine the effect of religion and spirituality on social support, psychological functioning, and physical health in medically ill hospitalized older adults. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Duke University Medical Center. PARTICIPAN ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression and Religiosity in African American and White Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Journal Article Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment · January 1, 2004 This research examined the extent to which religiosity was predictive of level of depression, even after controlling for race, gender, social support, income sufficiency, and physical health. Data were collected using in-home interviews conducted from 1999 ... Full text Cite

Religion and Mental Health

Chapter · January 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Religion and Mental Health

Chapter · January 1, 2004 Full text Cite

A review of research on chaplains and community-based clergy in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine: 1998-2000.

Journal Article J Pastoral Care Counsel · 2004 Based on the content analysis of quantitative research appearing in three medical journals, the authors conclude that, despite the shared ideal of providing spiritual care to patients on the part of physicians and chaplains, there is little attention given ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality, wellness, and quality of life

Journal Article Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause · January 1, 2004 Spirituality generally relates to better mental health, greater well-being, and higher quality of life. Physical health and medical outcomes may also be affected. Besides its connection with health, there are several practical reasons why health profession ... Full text Cite

Conceptualizing "religion": How language shapes and constrains knowledge in the study of religion and health.

Journal Article Perspect Biol Med · 2004 Despite recent advances in the field of religion and health, meaningful findings will increasingly depend on the capacity to conceptualize "religion" properly. To date, scientists' conception of religion has been shaped by the Enlightenment paradigm. Howev ... Full text Link to item Cite

Textbook of psychyosomatic medicine

Journal Article INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY IN MEDICINE · January 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

STUDENTJAMA. Taking a spiritual history.

Journal Article JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association · January 1, 2004 Cite

Religion, Spirituality, and Health Service Use by Older Hospitalized Patients

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Health · December 1, 2003 Background: Religious and spiritual beliefs and practices are common among medical inpatients, and may impact length of hospital stay (LOS) and other health services (HSU) during hospitalization. Methods: 812 consecutively admitted patients age 50 or over ... Full text Cite

Religiosity and mental health in southern, community-dwelling older adults.

Journal Article Aging Ment Health · September 2003 This study considers potential interaction effects of three measures of religiosity, organized (OR), non-organized (NOR), and intrinsic religiosity (IR), on depression and general mental health, controlling for socio-demographic characteristics and mobilit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality and health.

Journal Article Med J Aust · April 21, 2003 Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, religiosity and spirituality in the biopsychosocial model of health and ageing

Journal Article Ageing International · January 1, 2003 Religiosity/spirituality and the tendency to use these in coping are common in older adults. We review evidence that these are positively associated with mental and physical health in older adults, as well as evidence that members of different religious gr ... Full text Cite

Correlations between preprocedure mood and clinical outcome in patients undergoing coronary angioplasty.

Journal Article Cardiol Rev · 2003 We studied the relationship between mood and mood shift immediately before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and 3 end points: total ischemic burden during PCI, adverse cardiac end points (ACE) after PCI, and death by 6-month follow up. Patients (n ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality and health - In reply

Journal Article MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA · 2003 Full text Cite

A review of mortality research on clergy and other religious professionals

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Health · December 1, 2002 An exhaustive literature search was undertaken to find studies on mortality rates among clergy. A total of twelve studies, published between 1959 and 2000, were identified that examined mortality among American and European clergy. All but one of the repor ... Full text Cite

Spirituality and chronic illness.

Journal Article JAMA · November 27, 2002 Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality and Chronic Illness—Reply

Journal Article JAMA · November 27, 2002 Full text Cite

Rowe and Kahn's model of successful aging revisited: positive spirituality--the forgotten factor.

Journal Article Gerontologist · October 2002 PURPOSE: We explain a new concept, positive spirituality, and offer evidence that links positive spirituality with health; describe effective partnerships between health professionals and religious communities; and summarize the information as a basis for ... Full text Link to item Cite

A systematic review of research on religion in six primary marriage and family journals: 1995-1999

Journal Article American Journal of Family Therapy · July 2, 2002 A review of quantitative research studies published between 1995 and 1999 in six major marriage and family academic journals revealed that 13.2% (114 of 864) included a measure of religion. This percentage (13.2%) is higher than that found in previous revi ... Full text Cite

Private prayer and optimism in middle-aged and older patients awaiting cardiac surgery.

Journal Article Gerontologist · February 2002 PURPOSE: This study investigated the use of private prayer among middle-aged and older patients as a way of coping with cardiac surgery and prayer's relationship to optimism. DESIGN AND METHODS: The measure of prayer included three aspects: (a) belief in t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental health issues among clergy and other religious professionals: a review of research.

Journal Article J Pastoral Care Counsel · 2002 The authors reviewed the literature on mental health issues among clergy and other religious professionals, using electronic searches of databases of medical (Medline), nursing (CINAHL), psychology (PsycINFO), religious (ATLA), and sociological research (S ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, congestive heart failure, and chronic pulmonary disease

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Health · January 1, 2002 Objective: To examine the prevalence of religious beliefs and practices in hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) or chronic pulmonary disease (CPD), and determine relationships with physical and mental health. Methods: Subjects were a c ... Full text Cite

Crossing the secular divide: government and faith-based organizations as partners in health.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2002 Recent debate over the relationship between government and faith-based organizations has renewed interest in the opportunities and challenges that are associated with change in this area of health care policy. Experience exists already that faith-based org ... Full text Link to item Cite

Integrative noetic therapies as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes: Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training (MANTRA) feasibility pilot.

Journal Article Am Heart J · November 2001 BACKGROUND: Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for unstable coronary syndromes have substantial emotional and spiritual distress that may promote procedural complications. Noetic (nonpharmacologic) therapies may reduce anxiety, pa ... Full text Link to item Cite

A 10-year review of research on chaplains and community-based clergy in 3 primary oncology nursing journals: 1990-1999.

Journal Article Cancer Nurs · October 2001 A manual examination of 3 primary oncology nursing journals was conducted to identify quantitative studies about chaplains and community-based clergy that were published between 1990 and 1999. This systematic review identified 7 studies involving chaplains ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious struggle as a predictor of mortality among medically ill elderly patients: a 2-year longitudinal study.

Journal Article Arch Intern Med · August 13, 2001 BACKGROUND: Although church attendance has been associated with a reduced risk of mortality, no study has examined the impact of religious struggle with an illness on mortality. OBJECTIVE: To investigate longitudinally the relationship between religious st ... Full text Link to item Cite

Soldier and family wellness across the life course: a developmental model of successful aging, spirituality, and health promotion, Part II.

Journal Article Mil Med · July 2001 As an alternative to the current Department of Defense approach to health promotion and related research, which is critiqued in Part I of this article, the authors present a new, integrative health promotion and wellness model. This age-graded model incorp ... Link to item Cite

Soldier and family wellness across the life course: a developmental model of successful aging, spirituality, and health promotion. Part I.

Journal Article Mil Med · June 2001 The primary purposes of this article are to (1) highlight current challenges facing health promotion advocates within the military and civilian culture; (2) present the strengths and weaknesses of the current Army approach to health promotion and preventiv ... Link to item Cite

Religion and coping with serious medical illness.

Journal Article Ann Pharmacother · March 2001 OBJECTIVE: To review and discuss some of the research published in the last several decades that has addressed the role that religion plays in helping patients cope with serious medical illness. DATA SOURCES: Although this is not a systematic review of the ... Full text Link to item Cite

The epidemiology of religious coping: A review of recent literature

Journal Article International Review of Psychiatry · January 1, 2001 Studies of religious coping have increased dramatically over the past few years. This review summarizes recent findings concerning the prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of religious coping. In studies employing a wide variety of methods, religious copin ... Full text Cite

Religion and medicine IV: religion, physical health, and clinical implications.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2001 In the fourth and final article of this religion and medicine series, I summarize the results of a comprehensive and systematic review of research examining religion's relationship to physical health and mortality. This review focuses on pain and disabilit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Relationship between private religious activity and physical functioning in older adults

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Health · January 1, 2001 This study sought to further understand the relationship between physical functioning and use of private religious activity in older adults. Subjects were age 65 or older from7 urban and rural counties in North Carolina who participated in the Duke Univers ... Full text Cite

Religion and medicine III: developing a theoretical model.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2001 In this third of a four-article series on religion and medicine, I describe a theoretical model to illustrate the complex pathways by which religion may influence physical health. Genetic factors, childhood training, psychological and social influences, he ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spiritual assessment in medical practice.

Journal Article Am Fam Physician · January 1, 2001 Link to item Cite

Religion and mental health: Evidence for an association

Journal Article International Review of Psychiatry · January 1, 2001 The relationship between religion and mental health has been debated for centuries. History shows that religious organizations were often the first to offer compassionate care to the mentally ill; however, for hundreds of years the religious establishment ... Full text Cite

Religion and medicine II: religion, mental health, and related behaviors.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2001 In this second in a series of articles on religion and medicine, I focus on the relationship between religion and mental health. This discussion is based on a comprehensive and systematic review of a century of research examining religion's relationship to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effective approaches to depression in older patients

Journal Article Patient Care · December 1, 2000 The prevalence of major depression declines with age, but depressive symptoms become more common. Never normal, these are eminently treatable with antidepressants taken in adequate dosages for an appropriate length of time. ... Cite

Medicine and religion.

Journal Article N Engl J Med · November 2, 2000 Link to item Cite

Does private religious activity prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,851 older adults.

Journal Article J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · July 2000 BACKGROUND: Previous studies have linked higher religious attendance and longer survival. In this study, we examine the relationship between survival and private religious activity. METHODS: A probability sample of elderly community-dwelling adults in Nort ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious involvement and mortality: a meta-analytic review.

Journal Article Health Psychol · May 2000 A meta-analysis of data from 42 independent samples examining the association of a measure of religious involvement and all-cause mortality is reported. Religious involvement was significantly associated with lower mortality (odds ratio = 1.29; 95% confide ... Full text Link to item Cite

The many methods of religious coping: development and initial validation of the RCOPE.

Journal Article J Clin Psychol · April 2000 The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a new theoretically based measure that would assess the full range of religious coping methods, including potentially helpful and harmful religious expressions. The RCOPE was tested on a large sample of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Is God good for your health? The role of spirituality in medical care.

Journal Article Cleve Clin J Med · February 2000 Many studies have found that religious belief and practice have a positive effect on physical and mental health, although the topic needs more research. As religious beliefs may affect both health and health-promoting behavior, physicians should try to und ... Full text Link to item Cite

The importance of religious community to older adults

Journal Article GERONTOLOGIST · February 1, 2000 Link to item Cite

Psychoneuroimmunology and the faith factor.

Journal Article J Gend Specif Med · 2000 A recent systematic review of research on religion and health has found a consistent relationship between religion and better mental health as well as greater social support. There also appears to be a relationship between religious involvement and better ... Link to item Cite

Spirituality and health: What we know, what we need to know

Journal Article Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology · January 1, 2000 Spirituality and religion have been seen as beneficial, harmful, and irrelevant to health. We examine the recent research on this topic. We focus on (a) defining spirituality and religion both conceptually and operationally; (b) the relationships between s ... Full text Cite

An introduction to three studies of rural elderly people: Effects of religion and culture on health

Journal Article Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology · January 1, 2000 The paper introduces three empirical studies which relate the religious beliefs and practices of rural older adults from different ethnic groups to their health behaviors. It briefly describes the rationale for the studies and their main components, includ ... Full text Cite

Religion and medicine I: historical background and reasons for separation.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 2000 Religion and medicine have a long, intertwined, tumultuous history, going back thousands of years. Only within the past 200-300 years (less than 5 percent of recorded history) have these twin healing traditions been clearly separate. This series on religio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spirituality in Physical Health and Aging

Journal Article Journal of Adult Development · January 1, 2000 A variety of research has documented the association between various measures of religion/ spirituality and physical health outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on this topic. The paper also discusses the mechanisms that are thou ... Full text Cite

Spiritual aspects of surgery

Journal Article Ophthalmology Clinics of North America · January 1, 2000 The importance of the spiritual aspect of patients' lives is beginning to be recognized for the first time in modern history. This article examines several issues in relation to religion and spirituality, including effects on the healthy and sick, the nega ... Full text Cite

Religious activities as predictors of health and survival

Journal Article PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE · January 1, 2000 Link to item Cite

Does religious attendance prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,968 older adults.

Journal Article J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · July 1999 METHODS: A probability sample of 3,968 community-dwelling adults aged 64-101 years residing in the Piedmont of North Carolina was surveyed in 1986 as part of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) program of the Na ... Full text Link to item Cite

Late-life depression: how to treat patients with comorbid chronic illness. Interview by Alice V. Luddington.

Journal Article Geriatrics · May 1999 In persons age 65 and older, the incidence of depression increases with the degree of physical health problems. Higher levels of mortality among depressed patients may be attributed to psychological stress, which triggers the production of cortisol by the ... Link to item Cite

How does religious faith contribute to recovery from depression?

Journal Article Harv Ment Health Lett · February 1999 Link to item Cite

Depressive symptoms and nine-year survival of 1,001 male veterans hospitalized with medical illness.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1999 Authors examined effects of depressive symptoms on after-discharge survival of hospitalized medically ill male veterans. Psychosocial and physical health evaluations were performed on a consecutive sample of 1,001 patients ages 20-39 (16%) and 65-102 years ... Link to item Cite

Use of health services by medically ill depressed elderly patients after hospital discharge.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1999 The authors evaluated a consecutive sample of 542 elderly hospital patients for depression; of these, 160 depressed and 171 nondepressed patients were followed up for a median of 47 weeks after discharge. A subset of 113 depressed patients had significant ... Link to item Cite

Prayer and religious coping for caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

Journal Article American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias · January 1, 1999 This study examined the use of prayer and religious coping among caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders. A repeated measures correlational design was used, combined with data from a larger, experimental study (NIH, R01-NR ... Full text Cite

The healing power of faith

Journal Article Annals of Long-Term Care · January 1, 1999 Cite

Pastoral care for the person with dementia.

Journal Article J Health Care Chaplain · 1999 We discuss the various stages of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD) and present a psychosocial model which spiritual caregivers can use in their ministry, the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold (PLST) model. We argue that religious activi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Aging, health, and the "electronic church".

Journal Article J Aging Health · November 1998 We tested whether elders substitute religious media use for church attendance when health declines (using multidimensional disengagement theory) with data from a multiracial, population-based sample in the Bible Belt (N = 2,971). In adjusted models, 3-year ... Full text Link to item Cite

The relationship between religious activities and cigarette smoking in older adults.

Journal Article J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · November 1998 BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between religious activities and cigarette smoking in community-dwelling older adults. METHODS: Cigarette smoking and religious activities were assessed in a probability sample of 3968 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression.

Journal Article Clin Geriatr Med · November 1998 Depression occurs in up to 45% of medically hospitalized older patients. The diagnosis of depression in this population is particularly difficult. Assessing for depression is made easier by the use of scales for screening and is best accomplished using the ... Link to item Cite

Use of hospital services, religious attendance, and religious affiliation.

Journal Article South Med J · October 1998 BACKGROUND: We examined the relationship between religious attendance, religious affiliation, and use of acute hospital services by older medical patients. METHODS: Religious affiliation (n = 542) and church attendance (n = 455) were examined in a consecut ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious coping and health status in medically ill hospitalized older adults.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · September 1998 Associations between specific religious coping (RC) behaviors and health status in medically ill hospitalized older patients were examined and compared with associations between nonreligious coping (NRC) behaviors and health status. The sample consisted of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Use of health services by hospitalized medically ill depressed elderly patients.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · July 1998 OBJECTIVE: The authors examined whether depression is associated with greater use of health services by elderly medical patients before and during hospitalization. METHOD: Depression and recent use of health services were assessed in 542 patients aged 60 o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious activity and depression among community-dwelling elderly persons with cancer: the moderating effect of race.

Journal Article J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · July 1998 OBJECTIVES: Research has been oriented toward elucidating the links between religion and mental health. The purpose of this article is to further our knowledge in this area by examining the effect of religious activity on depressive symptomatology among co ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religiosity and remission of depression in medically ill older patients.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · April 1998 OBJECTIVE: The effects of religious belief and activity on remission of depression were examined in medically ill hospitalized older patients. METHOD: Consecutive patients aged 60 years or over who had been admitted to medical inpatient services at a unive ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious attitudes and practices of hospitalized medically ill older adults.

Journal Article Int J Geriatr Psychiatry · April 1998 OBJECTIVES: To examine the prevalence of religious beliefs and practices among medically ill hospitalized older adults and relate them to social, psychological and health characteristics. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: Consecutive patients age 60 or over admitted ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression and physical disability outcomes in depressed medically ill hospitalized older adults.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1998 The authors examined depression/disability outcomes in hospitalized older medical patients during the year after hospital discharge to assess the pattern and rate of changing depression and disability, the causal relationship between these variables, and t ... Link to item Cite

Social correlates of the dimensions of depression in the elderly.

Journal Article J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · January 1998 Few investigations of the social correlates of depressive symptomatology have addressed variation in the correlates across multiple dimensions of depression scales. We examined the relationships of selected social, clinical, and demographic correlates with ... Full text Link to item Cite

The relationship between religious activities and blood pressure in older adults.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1998 OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between religious activities and blood pressure in community-dwelling older adults. METHOD: Blood pressure and religious activities were assessed in a probability sample of 3,963 persons age sixty-five years or older ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patterns of positive and negative religious coping with major life stressors

Journal Article Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · January 1, 1998 This study attempted to identify positive and negative patterns of religious coping methods, develop a brief measure of these religious coping patterns, and examine their implications for health and adjustment. Through exploratory and confirmatory factor a ... Full text Cite

Depressive symptoms in elderly medical-surgical patients hospitalized in community settings.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1998 The authors examined the rates and correlates of depressive symptoms in adults over age 60 admitted to community hospital settings and compared them with patients admitted to a tertiary-care medical center. Rates of depressive symptoms in patients admitted ... Link to item Cite

Research on religion and serious mental illness.

Journal Article New Dir Ment Health Serv · 1998 According to this review, religion plays a largely positive role in mental health; future research on severe mental disorders should include religious factors more directly. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious beliefs and practices in family medicine.

Journal Article Arch Fam Med · 1998 OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the religious beliefs and behaviors of family medicine outpatients differed from those of their physicians and whether patients' religiousness affects their expectations of their physicians regarding religious matters. DESI ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious commitment and health status: a review of the research and implications for family medicine.

Journal Article Arch Fam Med · 1998 The empirical literature from epidemiological and clinical studies regarding the relationship between religious factors (eg, frequency of religious attendance, private religious involvement, and relying on one's religious beliefs as a source of strength an ... Full text Link to item Cite

An analysis of research on religious and spiritual variables in three major mental health nursing journals, 1991-1995.

Journal Article Issues Ment Health Nurs · 1998 A review of quantitative research studies published between 1991 and 1995 in 3 major mental health nursing journals revealed that approximately 10% (31 of 311) included a measure of religion or spirituality. This percentage (10%) is 3 to 8 times higher tha ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression in hospitalized older patients with congestive heart failure.

Journal Article Gen Hosp Psychiatry · January 1998 The objectives of this study were to examine the prevalence of depression in hospitalized, medically ill, older patients with and without congestive heart failure (CHF), and examine correlates, course, predictors of outcome, and treatment of depression in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and the survival of 1010 hospitalized veterans

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Health · January 1, 1998 Objective: To examine the effects of religious affiliation and religious coping on survival of acutely-hospitalized medically-ill male veterans following discharge. Sample and Methods: Between 1987 and 1989, comprehensive psychosocial and physical-health e ... Full text Cite

Differences in psychosocial and health correlates of major and minor depression in medically ill older adults.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · December 1997 OBJECTIVES: To compare the differences in correlates of different levels of depression in medically ill hospitalized older adults. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A consecutive series of 542 patients aged 60 or older admitted to the medical inpatient se ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion/spirituality and health among elderly African Americans and Hispanics.

Journal Article J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv · November 1997 1 It is important to view elders in a multicultural sense and also understand that there may be great heterogeneity within cultural or ethnic groups. 2 Knowledge of the impact of religion and spiritual beliefs for ethnic groups can help health care profess ... Full text Link to item Cite

Use of antidepressants by nonpsychiatrists in the treatment of medically ill hospitalized depressed elderly patients.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · October 1997 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine antidepressant use by nonpsychiatrists in the treatment of depressed elderly medical inpatients. METHOD: Patients aged 60 or older who were admitted to medical services at Duke Hospital were evaluated by ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression in medically ill hospitalized older adults: prevalence, characteristics, and course of symptoms according to six diagnostic schemes.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · October 1997 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine and compare rates of depression, correlates, and course of symptoms in medically ill hospitalized elders through use of six diagnostic schemes (inclusive, etiologic, exclusive-inclusive, exclusive-etiolog ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion index for psychiatric research.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · June 1997 Full text Link to item Cite

Depression awareness training and the clergy.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · May 1997 Full text Link to item Cite

The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) Scale: assessment of depression in the medically ill elderly.

Journal Article Int J Geriatr Psychiatry · April 1997 This study examines the use of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) in a sample of elderly, medically ill inpatients. Seventy-six individuals completed the CES-D and a psychiatric interview, from which DSM-III-R diagnoses of depr ... Link to item Cite

Religious coping in the nursing home: a biopsychosocial model.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1997 OBJECTIVE: To examine psychosocial and physical health correlates of religious coping in medically ill chronically institutionalized older adults. Religious coping is defined as the extent to which persons use religious beliefs and practices to help them t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Attendance at religious services, interleukin-6, and other biological parameters of immune function in older adults.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1997 OBJECTIVE: First, to examine and explain the relationship between religious service attendance and plasma Interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels, and second, to examine the relationship between religious attendance and other immune-system regulators and inflammatory ... Full text Link to item Cite

Modeling the cross-sectional relationships between religion, physical health, social support, and depressive symptoms.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1997 The authors examined models of the relationships between religious activities, physical health, social support, and depressive symptoms in a sample of 4,000 persons age 65 and over. Religious activity was examined first as a single composite construct and ... Link to item Cite

Psychosocial predictors of mental health in a population of elderly women: Test of an explanatory model

Journal Article American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · January 1, 1997 The understanding of adjustment to aging calls for models that illustrate the interaction of psychosocial and health factors. The authors surveyed a group of retired Catholic sisters, examining the contributions of psychosocial factors and religiousness to ... Full text Cite

What do psychologists know about working with the clergy? An analysis of eight APA journals: 1991-1994

Journal Article Professional Psychology: Research and Practice · January 1, 1997 To better understand the role of clergy in relation to the practice of psychology, a systematic review of research on clergy in 8 major American Psychological Association journals was conducted. From 1991 to 1994, 4 of 2,468 (0.02%) quantitative studies co ... Full text Cite

Marriage and family therapists and the clergy: a need for clinical collaboration, training, and research.

Journal Article J Marital Fam Ther · January 1997 This article calls for greater collaboration between clergy and marriage and family therapists. It spells out the reasons for potential collaboration and suggests some specific ways it can occur. Marriage and family therapists acknowledge the highest rates ... Full text Link to item Cite

Attitudes of elderly patients and their families toward physician-assisted suicide.

Journal Article Arch Intern Med · October 28, 1996 OBJECTIVES: To examine and compare attitudes of elderly outpatients and their families toward physician-assisted suicide (PAS), explore sociodemographic and health correlates of these attitudes, assess family members' ability to predict patients' attitudes ... Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic stress, mental health professionals, and the clergy: a need for collaboration, training, and research.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · October 1996 This article addresses the need for improved clergy-mental health professional collaboration in the assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Tens of millions of North Americans with personal problems seek the counsel of clergy. The ... Full text Link to item Cite

Minor depression in late life

Journal Article American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · September 1, 1996 Minor depression is a type of depressive disorder that does not fulfill the duration criteria or show the number of symptoms necessary to make the diagnosis of major depression. Defining minor depression, therefore, is difficult because of the many differe ... Cite

Minor depression in late life

Journal Article AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · September 1, 1996 Link to item Cite

Minor depression in hospitalized elderly veterans

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · September 1, 1996 Link to item Cite

Medical illness, religion, health control and depression of institutionalized medically ill veterans in long-term care

Journal Article International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · July 1, 1996 Utilizing multivariable multivariate regression procedures, we examine the relationships among medical illness, religion, health control beliefs and depression in 97 mostly elderly, institutionalized medically ill veterans in long term-care. Controlling fo ... Full text Cite

Depression and medical illness in late life: report of a symposium.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · February 1996 The high comorbidity of medical illnesses and late life depression poses both challenges and opportunities. Challenges in assessment techniques, diagnosis, and specific prognosis affect clinical care and research methodology alike. However, investigations ... Full text Link to item Cite

Duke university’s program on religion, aging, and health

Journal Article Journal of Religious Gerontology · January 1, 1996 Full text Cite

Use of acute hospital services and mortality among religious and non-religious copers with medical illness

Journal Article Journal of Religious Gerontology · January 1, 1996 Religious coping was examined in a sample of 1011 men acutely hospitalized with medical illness (84% over age 65). Two groups of men were identified: (1) those who relied heavily upon religious beliefs and behaviors to cope with their illness (10%) and (2) ... Full text Cite

Elderly suicide, mental health professionals, and the clergy: a need for clinical collaboration, training, and research.

Journal Article Death Stud · 1996 This article addresses the need for improved clergy-mental health professional collaboration in the assessment and treatment of elderly suicide. Millions of older adults with personal problems seek the counsel of clergy. A recent Gallup survey found that e ... Full text Link to item Cite

Minor depression: a review of the literature.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1996 OBJECTIVE: The clinical experience of the authors has suggested there is a significant group of elderly and individuals with medical illness and depressive symptoms who do not meet DSM-IV criteria for major depression. We were interested in all available d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and psychotherapy with older adults

Journal Article Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · January 1, 1996 Cite

New version of brief depression scale.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · December 1995 Full text Link to item Cite

MINOR DEPRESSION IN THE ELDERLY

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · September 1, 1995 Link to item Cite

Assessing diagnostic approaches to depression in medically ill older adults: how reliably can mental health professionals make judgments about the cause of symptoms?

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · May 1995 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the reliability of the DSM-IV approach and five other schemes for counting symptoms toward the diagnosis of depression in hospitalized medically ill older patients and to examine whether mental health professionals can reliably make ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression and anxiety disorder among older male inmates at a federal correctional facility.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · April 1995 The conditions of incarceration and the sociodemographic and health characteristics of 95 older male inmates of a federal correctional facility were studied to determine the relationship of such variables to rates of psychiatric disorder among older male i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and coping with sexual impotence in later life

Journal Article Journal of Religious Gerontology · March 7, 1995 Eighty-three elderly men with sexual impotence attending a university-affiliated urology clinic underwent psychological evaluations. Religious conservatives and frequent church attenders showed a greater prevalence of help-seeking behaviors; they were also ... Full text Cite

The development of a dysfunctional attitudes scale for medically ill elders (dasmie)

Journal Article Clinical Gerontologist · January 10, 1995 Objective: In this paper we developed a scale to measure dysfunctional attitudes in medically ill elderly, examined its test characteristics, and explored associations with other health variables. Sample and Methods: Eight items were selected from Weissman ... Full text Cite

Conclusion

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Religion as Cognitive Schema

Journal Article The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion · January 1, 1995 In this commentary, I report research that confirms McIntosh's contention that religion helps persons adapt to stress—both physical and psychological. The limitations of a general, all inclusive hypothesis about the functional value of religion are noted, ... Full text Cite

Hospital stressors experienced by elderly medical inpatients: developing a Hospital Stress Index.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1995 OBJECTIVE: To develop a long and short version of an index to measure experiences during hospitalization perceived by elderly patients as stressful. SAMPLES AND METHODS: Consecutive patients aged sixty or over admitted to a university teaching hospital wer ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious coping and cognitive symptoms of depression in elderly medical patients.

Journal Article Psychosomatics · 1995 The investigators examined associations between depressive symptom type and religious coping in 832 consecutively admitted older medical inpatients. Cognitive symptoms of depression, but not somatic symptoms, were related to religious coping. Boredom, loss ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and older men in prison

Journal Article International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · January 1, 1995 The objective of the study was to examine the religious characteristics and background of inmates age 50 or over confined to a federal correctional institution. Ninety‐six of 106 eligible inmates (91%) consented and received complete evaluations. Forensic, ... Full text Cite

Anxiety in medically ill older patients: a review and update.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1995 OBJECTIVE: The authors review the evaluation and treatment of anxiety symptoms in elderly patients, with particular emphasis on elderly patients with chronic medical illness. METHODS: A computer search for articles addressing anxiety symptoms in patients s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental health care for older adults in the year 2020: a dangerous and avoided topic.

Journal Article Gerontologist · October 1994 Low Medicare reimbursement rates are already causing some mental health professionals to turn away elderly patients, restricting access to care. Where will funds come from to pay for the mental health needs of older adults in the year 2020, when 80 million ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant baby boomers.

Journal Article Hosp Community Psychiatry · June 1994 OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the relationship between religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant members of the baby-boom generation (those born between 1945 and 1966) who resided in the Piedmont area of North Carolina. METHODS: Dat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious practices and alcoholism in a southern adult population.

Journal Article Hosp Community Psychiatry · March 1994 OBJECTIVE: The study examined associations between religious variables and alcohol abuse and dependence among 2,969 North Carolina residents aged 18 to 97 who participated in the 1983-1984 National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area su ... Full text Link to item Cite

Profile of depressive symptoms in younger and older medical inpatients with major depression.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · November 1993 OBJECTIVE: To examine and compare the profile of cognitive symptoms, somatic symptoms, and somatic complaints in younger and older medical inpatients diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD). DESIGN: Cross-sectional cohort. PATIENTS AND SETTING: Male ... Full text Link to item Cite

Legalizing physician-assisted suicide: some thoughts and concerns.

Journal Article J Fam Pract · August 1993 Surveys show that most Americans favor the decriminalization of physician-assisted suicide in certain circumstances. Several states are now considering legislation to bring this about and make the United States the first place in the civilized world where ... Link to item Cite

Trends in geriatric psychiatry relevant to pastoral counselors.

Journal Article J Relig Health · June 1993 This article is a general overview of mental disorders in the aged that stresses the complementary roles that religious and mental health professionals can play in meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of elders. Chaplains and pastoral counselors s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and aging

Journal Article Reviews in Clinical Gerontology · May 1, 1993 Full text Cite

Screening for depression.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · April 1993 Full text Link to item Cite

In reply

Journal Article Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · April 1993 Full text Cite

Religion and anxiety disorder: An examination and comparison of associations in young, middle-aged, and elderly adults

Journal Article Journal of Anxiety Disorders · January 1, 1993 We examined and compared associations between religious variables and anxiety disorders in 1025 young (ages 18 to 39), 645 middle-aged (ages 40 to 59), and 1299 elderly (ages 60 to 97) community-dwelling adults who participated in Wave II of the Piedmont N ... Full text Cite

Abbreviating the Duke Social Support Index for use in chronically ill elderly individuals.

Journal Article Psychosomatics · 1993 The 35-item Duke Social Support Index (DSSI) measures multiple dimensions of social support and has been used extensively in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of aging. Epidemiological studies of chronically ill, frail elderly individuals often wish ... Full text Link to item Cite

Should physicians screen for depression in elderly medical inpatients?: Results of a decision analysis.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1993 OBJECTIVE: We wish to determine whether or not elderly medical inpatients should be screened for depressive disorder using either 1) a self-rated depression scale (Geriatric Depression Scale), 2) "usual clinical assessment," or 3) neither, assuming that tr ... Full text Link to item Cite

RELIGION AND AGING

Conference RECENT ADVANCES IN AGING SCIENCE, VOLS I AND II · January 1, 1993 Link to item Cite

Religious coping and depression among elderly, hospitalized medically ill men.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · December 1992 OBJECTIVE: The investigators examined the frequency of religious coping among older medical inpatients, the characteristics of those who use it, and the relation between this behavior and depression. METHOD: The subjects were 850 men aged 65 years and over ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious affiliation and major depression.

Journal Article Hosp Community Psychiatry · December 1992 Data from the Duke Epidemiologic Catchment Area survey were used to examine the relationship between religious affiliation and major depression among 2,850 adults in the community. Religious affiliations were categorized into six groups: mainline Protestan ... Full text Link to item Cite

Screening for depression in hospitalized elderly medical patients: taking a closer look.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · October 1992 OBJECTIVE: To re-examine the test characteristics of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and the Brief Carroll Depression Rating Scale (BCDRS) in elderly medical inpatients, simulating the procedure followed by clinicians when using screening instruments. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Epidemiology of geriatric affective disorders.

Journal Article Clin Geriatr Med · May 1992 Recent Epidemiologic Catchment area studies found the prevalence of major depression to be only about 1% in community-dwelling elders; other less severe depressive disorders, however, may be present in over 25% of this population. Furthermore, at least 800 ... Link to item Cite

A brief depression scale for use in the medically ill.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1992 OBJECTIVE: Using items from two existing depression scales, we have sought to develop a brief self-rated instrument for detecting major depressive disorder (M.D.D.) in medically ill, hospitalized patients. METHOD: Forty-two items from the Geriatric Depress ... Full text Link to item Cite

Self-rated depressive symptoms in medical inpatients: age and racial differences.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1992 One thousand and eleven men under age forty (n = 161) or over age sixty-four (n = 850) admitted to medical and neurological services of an acute care hospital were screened for depressive symptoms as part of the Durham VA Mental Health Survey. Thirty-three ... Full text Link to item Cite

Major depression in hospitalized medically ill older men: Documentation, management, and outcome

Journal Article International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · January 1, 1992 Fifty‐three hospitalized elderly men with medical illness were diagnosed with major depressive disorder and followed up for a mean of 2.3 months. Documentation and management of the depression by medical housestaff during the followup period were examined. ... Full text Cite

Depressive disorders in older medical inpatients.

Journal Article Am Fam Physician · October 1991 Symptoms of depression that are temporary or caused by physical illness can be difficult to differentiate from those that represent a depressive disorder. A diagnosis of depressive disorder depends on the underlying cause, and on the nature, severity and d ... Link to item Cite

Major depressive disorder in hospitalized medically ill patients: an examination of young and elderly male veterans.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · September 1991 OBJECTIVE: To study the epidemiology of depressive disorder in younger and older medical inpatients. DESIGN, PATIENTS, & SETTING: Depressive disorders were examined using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule in 116 young and 332 elderly medically ill men hosp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and prevention of illness in later life

Journal Article Prevention in Human Services · July 24, 1991 Research findings indicate that traditional Judeo–Christian beliefs and behaviors may be related to adjustment and well–being in later life. This has prompted some investigators to hypothesize that such effects on mental health might further influence both ... Full text Cite

MEDICAL-ETHICS FOR PHYSICIANS-IN-TRAINING - KANTON,JE

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · July 1, 1991 Link to item Cite

Pastoral research in a hospital setting: a case study.

Journal Article J Pastoral Care · 1991 Provides a summary of research procedures and outcome data of a utilization review of the pastoral services of a large university medical center. Notes particularly the value of such a project both in terms of concrete knowledge gained and in terms of sere ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, and families.

Journal Article J Pastoral Care · 1991 Reports the results of a survey examining religious denomination, belief in a higher power, church attendance, and religious coping among physicians (N = 130), nurses (N = 39), patients (N = 77), and families (N = 60). Differences are noted and discussed. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment considerations for the depressed geriatric medical patient.

Journal Article Drugs Aging · 1991 Depression is one of the most common reversible psychiatric disorders in the medically ill hospitalised elderly. Because of its adverse impact on quality of life, compliance with medical therapy, motivation towards recovery, and survival itself, depression ... Full text Link to item Cite

TERMINAL CHOICES - EUTHANASIA, SUICIDE, AND THE RIGHT-TO-DIE - WENNBERG,RN

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · November 1, 1990 Link to item Cite

Depressed or just sick?

Journal Article Arch Intern Med · June 1990 Link to item Cite

Religious cognitions and use of prayer in health and illness.

Journal Article Gerontologist · April 1990 Forty adults aged 65-74 were asked about God's role in health and illness and about their use of prayer in response to recent physical symptoms. Most held a belief in a benevolent God but were not clear about God's role in health and illness. Over half had ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious coping and personality in later life

Journal Article International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · January 1, 1990 A stratified random subsample of 100 older adults from long‐term participants of the Second Duke Longitudinal Study was interviewed concerning how they coped with three stressful event periods. Responses to open‐ended coping questions were categorized as r ... Full text Cite

Use of antidepressants in medically ill older patients.

Journal Article Psychosomatics · 1990 Major depression is common in older medical patients, and it can exert a deleterious effect on the treatment, course, and outcome of physical illnesses. Tricyclic or tetracyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and psychosocial interventions often play a role in the ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of religion on men's blood pressure.

Journal Article J Relig Health · December 1989 Most clinical studies examining the relation between religion and blood pressure status have focused on church attendance, finding lower pressures among frequent attenders. The present study examines the effect on blood pressure status of a religious meani ... Full text Link to item Cite

Survival and health care utilization in elderly medical inpatients with major depression.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · July 1989 Forty-one elderly medical inpatients with active major depression were matched with nondepressed controls from the same population. Survival and health care utilization were examined during a mean follow-up period of five months. Cases and controls were ma ... Full text Link to item Cite

Life Satisfaction Of The Aging Woman Religious

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Aging · May 11, 1989 In this report we discuss the issues of life satisfaction for the elderly nun. A modification of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale was used to evaluate the feelings and attitudes of a group of aged women religious. Older persons drawn from a d ... Full text Cite

Physician perspectives on the role of religion in the physician-older patient relationship.

Journal Article J Fam Pract · April 1989 A study of 160 family physicians and general practitioners found that the majority of physicians believed that religion has a positive effect on the mental health of older patients, and many believed that religion has a positive effect on physical health. ... Link to item Cite

THE USE OF DEPRESSION RATING-SCALES - REPLY

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · 1989 Full text Cite

Religious and Non-Religious Coping: Impact on Adaptation in Later Life

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Aging · 1989 Cite

Antidepressant use in elderly medical inpatients: lessons from an attempted clinical trial.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · 1989 The authors conducted a clinical trial to examine the efficacy and safety of nortriptyline in the treatment of major depression in elderly medical inpatients. The diagnosis of major depression was made by a psychiatrist in 41 of 680 patients 65 years of ag ... Full text Link to item Cite

Major depression and the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule: validation in medically ill hospitalized patients.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1989 The authors validate the usefulness of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) in prevalence studies of major depression (MD) in medically ill male veterans. The affective disorders portion of the DIS was administered by a trained interviewer to a represen ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression in elderly hospitalized patients with medical illness.

Journal Article Arch Intern Med · September 1988 Depressive symptoms and disorders were identified by structured psychiatric interview in 130 consecutively admitted male inpatients aged 70 years and over. Major depression was found in 11.5% and other depressive syndromes in 23%. While depressive symptoms ... Link to item Cite

Self-rated depression scales and screening for major depression in the older hospitalized patient with medical illness.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · August 1988 Until now, no self-rated depression scale had been validated as a screening measure for major depression in the older patient hospitalized with medical illness. The present report establishes the validity of two brief, easily administered depression screen ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious activities and attitudes of older adults in a geriatric assessment clinic.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · April 1988 Few studies have examined the prevalence, salience, and impact of religious beliefs, activities, and commitment among medical patients in later life. Surveys of the U.S. population aged 65 years and over reveal a high frequency of such beliefs and activiti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion and well-being in later life.

Journal Article Gerontologist · February 1988 Full text Link to item Cite

Detection and treatment of major depression in older medically ill hospitalized patients.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1988 While major depression is common among medically ill older inpatients, little is known about the frequency of detection or appropriate treatment in this population. In the present study, 171 consecutive men age seventy and over admitted to the medical and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Post-stroke depression in the elderly.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · 1988 Full text Link to item Cite

Geriatric fellowships in family medicine: status and directions.

Journal Article Fam Med · 1988 The American Board of Medical Specialties recently approved the concept of certificates of added qualifications in geriatrics within both internal medicine and family practice. Certification requirements have been worked out for each training model, and qu ... Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and aging.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · May 1987 Full text Link to item Cite

Geriatric mental health care.

Journal Article Gerontol Geriatr Educ · 1987 Full text Link to item Cite

Rational theophylline use in older asthmatics.

Journal Article Geriatrics · August 1986 In the sick adult, the variability of clearance from patient to patient may be greater than 50%. A given dose of theophylline that is predicted to result in a serum concentration of 15 micrograms/ml may result in an actual range of serum concentrations fro ... Link to item Cite

Growing Old—According to the Bible

Journal Article Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · January 1, 1986 Full text Cite

Creating geriatric fellowships.

Journal Article Fam Med · 1986 Link to item Cite

Shepherds centers: helping elderly help themselves.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · January 1986 Full text Link to item Cite

Depressive Disorder in Older Medical Inpatients on General Medicine and Cardiology Services at a University Teaching Hospital.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry The authors examined the prevalence, characteristics, and correlates of depressive disorder among medical inpatients age 60 or over at a private teaching hospital. Seventy-six of 129 patients admitted to the general medicine and cardiology services at Duke ... Full text Link to item Cite