ArticleISRN psychiatry2012
Religion, spirituality, and health: the research and clinical implications.
Article in ISRN psychiatry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07333625 (Integrating Spiritual Care Into Type 2 Diabetes Management), which is not on this map. Cited by 582 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Integrating Spiritual Care Into Type 2 Diabetes Management: Effects on Psychological Resilience, Distress, and Glycemic Control
Who cites it
582 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Evaluation of the Relationship Between the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Perception of Elderly Care Students and Their Hopelessness Levels: A Turkish Example.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Reframing Obesity as Collective Vulnerability in Black Churches in The USA: Implications for Clergy Leadership, Health Equity, and Pastoral Identity.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- The Spiritual Burnout Scale: Development and Psychometric Validation of a Measure of Spiritual Resource Depletion in Türkiye.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
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- Rehabilitation and the post-intensive care syndrome across the recovery continuum: a narrative review.Intensive care medicine · 2026Review
- Perceived barriers and pathways to religious inclusion: UK Muslim clients' perspectives on faith in therapy.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2026Article
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Abstract
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 journals between 1872 and 2010, including a few seminal articles published since 2010. First, I provide a brief historical background to set the stage. Then I review research on R/S and mental health, examining relationships with both positive and negative mental health outcomes, where positive outcomes include well-being, happiness, hope, optimism, and gratefulness, and negative outcomes involve depression, suicide, anxiety, psychosis, substance abuse, delinquency/crime, marital instability, and personality traits (positive and negative). I then explain how and why R/S might influence mental health. Next, I review research on R/S and health behaviors such as physical activity, cigarette smoking, diet, and sexual practices, followed by a review of relationships between R/S and heart disease, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, immune functions, endocrine functions, cancer, overall mortality, physical disability, pain, and somatic symptoms. I then present a theoretical model explaining how R/S might influence physical health. Finally, I discuss what health professionals should do in light of these research findings and make recommendations in this regard.
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