February 2008
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Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
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February 2008
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22 Reads
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Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
February 2005
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262 Reads
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30 Citations
Journal of Religion and Health
A series of systematic reviews has revealed relatively high levels of interest in religion and spirituality in different nursing specialties, but not in general nursing research journals. To identify the extent to which spirituality and religiousness were measured in all quantitative and qualitative research articles published in Research in Nursing and Health, Nursing Research, Advances in Nursing Science (ANS), and Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship from 1995 to 1999. A full-text search was conducted of ANS and Image using the Ovid search system. Nursing Research and Research in Nursing and Health were hand searched for spiritual/religious measures. Characteristics of selected studies, the measures taken, and their uses were coded for data analysis. A total of 564 research studies were identified, of which 67 (11.9%) included at least one measure of spirituality or religiousness. A significant difference was found between the percentage of qualitative and quantitative studies that contained measures of these concepts. Of the 119 qualitative studies, 23 (19.3%) contained a measure of religion or spirituality, compared to 44 of the 445 (9.9%) quantitative studies. Nominal indicators of religious affiliation were the most commonly used measures in the quantitative studies and measures of religion and spirituality were rarely used in the analyses. Although only a few quantitative or qualitative studies intended to focus on religion or spirituality, these themes often emerged spontaneously in the qualitative research. Research in Nursing and Health, Advances in Nursing Science, Nursing Research, and Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship all published research measuring spirituality and religiousness during the time-period studies. The rate at which spirituality and religion appeared in these nursing research articles is substantially higher than that found in most fields outside of nursing. Even more frequent inclusion of spiritual and religious variables and richer measures of spirituality and religiousness would help to increase the available scientific information on the role of spirituality and religion in nursing care.
May 2004
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2,764 Citations
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
This book, the first of its kind, reviews and discusses the full range of research on religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes. Based on this research, the authors build theoretical models illustrating the various behavioural, psychological, and physiological pathways by which religion might affect health. They also review research that has explored the impact of religious affiliation, belief, and practice one use of health services and compliance with medical treatment. Finally, they discuss the implications of these findings, examine a number of possible clinical applications, and make recommendations for future research in this area
April 2003
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46 Citations
Palliative and Supportive Care
There has been increasing recognition and acceptance of the importance of addressing existential and spiritual suffering as an important and necessary component of palliative medicine and end-of-life care in the United States. This paper seeks to. empirically and systematically examine the extent to which there is an adequate scientific research base on spirituality and its role in palliative care, in the palliative care and hospice literature. We sought to locate all empirical studies published in five palliative medicine/hospice journals from 1994 to 1998. The journals included: American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, Journal of Palliative Care, Hospice Journal, Palliative Medicine, and The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. Journal contents were searched to identify studies that included spiritual or religious measures or results. Case studies, editorials, and theoretical or descriptive articles were not included in the search. During the years 1994-1998, 1,117 original empirical articles were published in the five journals reviewed. Only 6.3% (70 articles) included spiritual or religious variables. This percentage, while low, was better that the 1% previously reported in an examination of studies published in Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine. While researchers in the field of palliative care have studied spiritual/religious variables more than other areas of medicine, the total percentage for studies is still a low 6.3%. To move the field of palliative medicine forward so appropriate guidelines for spiritual care can be developed, it is critical that good research be conducted upon which to base spiritual care in an evidence-based model. Recommendations are made for future studies on spiritual care in palliative medicine.
May 2000
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742 Citations
Health Psychology
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% confidence interval: 1.20–1.39), indicating that people high in religious involvement were more likely to be alive at follow-up than people lower in religious involvement. Although the strength of the religious involvement–mortality association varied as a function of several moderator variables, the association of religious involvement and mortality was robust and on the order of magnitude that has come to be expected for psychosocial factors. Conclusions did not appear to be due to publication bias. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
January 2000
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12 Citations
January 2000
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67 Citations
December 1998
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This chapter discusses the future directions in research on religion and mental health. The research on religion and mental health has been a source of sustained scientific interest for many researchers since the early 1980s. This vigorous activity has, almost through brute force, raised a general awareness among many scholars that a curious and perhaps important relationship exists between religious faith and mental health. However, for religion and mental health to become a scientific discipline, it is necessary to develop a strategic approach to conducting research so that one can accumulate a database of well-established, clinically useful knowledge. This chapter summarizes that if the field of research on religion and mental health can meet the challenges of specialization, the field might not only continue to grow but also begin to mature and yield valid, clinically useful knowledge about the relationships between religion and mental health.
... This choice is guided by the belief in mental illness having a spiritual origin over organic cause. 6,13,14 There are varying approaches to addressing mental health issues among Christians. 3,12,15,16 Conservative Christians may turn to religious support, often citing sin and a lack of self-control as the root of mental illness. ...
January 2000
... Focusing on forgiveness, commonly defined as " a suite of pro-social changes " toward a transgressor that encourages people to be less vengeful (Enright et al. 1998;McCullough et al. 1997), gives us the opportunity to investigate the reconciliation process between non-deviant members and perpetrators. Forgiveness encourages the aggrieved individual to move from a desire to retaliate to a desire to reconcile (McCullough et al. 1997McCullough et al. , 2001McCullough et al. , 2003Pargament et al. 2000) and it could represent an important issue in research on group reactions to internal deviance. Indeed, as pointed out by recent research, sharing the same social identity with the victims of transgressions leads to a low chance of forgiveness (McLernon et al. 2004;Wohl and Branscombe 2005;Rullo et al. 2016). ...
January 2000
... Mohkam ( 2013 ), for example, cites evidence for trepanation undertaken in Iran around 3000 bc most probably to for the relief of intracranial pressure associated with hydrocephaly. Trepanation techniques and/or frequencies were not necessarily consistent across neighbouring cultures or even, over time, within the same culture (Brothwell 2003 ;Crubézy et al. 2001 ). The geographic isolation of some populations practising trepanation suggests this surgery developed independently in very different societies, raising interesting -although largely unaddressed -questions about consistency in cross-cultural and cross-temporal perceptions of, and responses to, disease. ...
December 1998
... Spirituality is defined as the personal effort to answer fundamental questions about life, meaning, and the transcendent, independent of religious affiliation (Koenig et al., 2018). In contemporary Western culture, religiosity and spirituality are often conflated, complicating their definition and study. ...
May 2004
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
... Interestingly, religious gatherings do not only benefit the spiritual growth or spiritual edification of adherents; they have also been seen as having impact on both the well-being and mental health of the congregants (see, McCullough et al., 2000). So, the restriction of religious gatherings under the pandemic may have unwittingly tasked the mental health and well-being of adherents. ...
May 2000
Health Psychology
... Additionally, studies have found that failure to address the spirituality concerns can result in subpar treatment outcomes, heightened non-compliance with the treatment plan, and inability to find effective coping mechanisms [4,12]. The Institute of Medicine also recognizes attaining a sense of spiritual peace and well-being as an important realms of quality end-of-life care [13]. Engaging HNC patients in religious practices, such as prayer, meditation, and other religious services, has been associated with higher levels of psychological well-being and decreased levels of distress and among such individuals. ...
February 2005
Journal of Religion and Health
... Little is known about whether and how these beliefs influence the internal experience of grief. 102 ...
April 2003
Palliative and Supportive Care