ReviewJournal of behavioral medicine2017
Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral medicine.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Placing the US Federal Investment in Religion, Spirituality, and Health Research in Context: A Systematic Review and Comparison with Social Support and Optimism Funding Levels.Journal of religion and health · 2024Pooled it
- Religious Coping in Cancer: A Quantitative Analysis of Expressive Writing Samples From Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2020Trial
- The Faithful Path to Health: An Exploratory Qualitative Study Investigating Religious Dimensions of Treatment Adherence Among Muslim Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease on Hemodialysis in Pakistan.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Education, Religious Attendance, and Precursors to Deaths of Despair in the United States.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- The Psychometric Properties of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Questionnaire (PCL-5) for Cancer Patients in Iran.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- The relationship of religiosity, spirituality and health in Spanish cancer patients: testing underlying psychological, social and behavioral pathways.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The Effectiveness of Group and Individual Training in Emotional Freedom Techniques for Patients in Remission from Melanoma: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Faith in Crisis: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of the Role of Faith Community Leaders and Faith Community Nurses in Balancing Public Health Guidance and Spiritual Leadership During COVID-19 in the United States.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Religious and Spiritual Experiences, Discrimination, and Stress Among Midlife Women in the USA: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
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- Age modulates, religious coping mediates: the role of attitude to self in cancer patients' quality of life.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Measurement of Spiritual Wellbeing in an Australian Hospital Population Using the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy: Spiritual Wellbeing Scale (FACIT-Sp-12).Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Muslims perceptions of safe alcohol use: a qualitative study in the Gulf Council Cooperation countries.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- How Does Spiritual Well-Being Change Over Time Among US Patients with Heart Failure and What Predicts Change?Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- A validity and reliability evaluation of fear of progression questionnaire in Iranian breast cancer patients: A methodological study.Health science reports · 2024Article
- What matters most to older adults: Racial and ethnic considerations in values for current healthcare planning.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- The Psychometric Properties of the Fear of Progression Questionnaire (FoP-Q) for Cancer Patients in Iran.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2023Article
- "Letting go" - Relinquishing control of illness outcomes to God and quality of life: Meaning/peace as a mediating mechanism in religious coping with cancer.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Depression and Religious Coping in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in Turkey.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Recognizing and understanding the potentially powerful roles that religiousness and spirituality (RS) may serve in the prevention and amelioration of disease, as well as symptom management and health related quality of life, significantly enhances research and clinical efforts across many areas of behavioral medicine. This article examines the knowledge established to date and suggests advances that remain to be made. We begin with a brief summary of the current knowledge regarding RS as related to three exemplary health conditions: (a) cardiovascular disease; (b) cancer; and, (c) substance abuse. We then focus on particular concerns for future investigations, emphasizing conceptual issues, possible mediators and moderators of relationships or effects, and methodology. Our discussion is framed by a conceptual model that may serve to guide and organize future investigations. This model highlights a number of important issues regarding the study of links between RS and health: (a) RS comprise many diverse constructs, (b) the mechanisms through which RS may influence health outcomes are quite diverse, and (c) a range of different types of health and health relevant outcomes may be influenced by RS. The multidimensional nature of RS and the complexity of related associations with different types of health relevant outcomes present formidable challenges to empirical study in behavioral medicine. These issues are referred to throughout our review and we suggest several solutions to the presented challenges in our summary. We end with a presentation of barriers to be overcome, along with strategies for doing so, and concluding thoughts.
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