ArticleJournal of religion and health2018
Mixed Blessings? Religion/Spirituality Predicts Better and Worse Screening Behaviours.
Article in Journal of religion and health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- A scoping review and thematic analysis of the landscape of spiritual health and spirituality in Canada.PloS one · 2026Article
- Religious and Spiritual Coping Elements in Dealing with Chronic Diseases: A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Older Iranian Zoroastrians.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- Fishing in a Puddle of Doubt and Disbelief?: A Rejoinder to the Speed et al. Commentary.Journal of religion and health · 2022Review
- The association between religiosity, spirituality, and breast cancer screening: A cross-sectional analysis of Alberta's Tomorrow Project.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Godless in the Great White North: Assessing the Health of Canadian Atheists Using Data from the 2011/2012 Canadian Community Health Survey.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Religiosity Level and Mammography Performance Among Arab and Jewish Women in Israel.Journal of religion and health · 2021Article
- Religious Attendance and Cancer Screening Behavior.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Some health research suggests that religious and spiritual variables positively predict health-screening behaviours. However, much of the literature on this topic has utilized exclusively religious samples, or has sampled from populations without uniform access to health care. Either of these issues may have artificially inflated the relationship between religion/spirituality and health-screening behaviours. The current study used data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey to examine a general sample of women from New Brunswick and Manitoba (N > 1200). Results indicated that lower levels of church attendance were positive predictors of papanicolaou tests and mammograms, while higher levels of attendance were generally associated with poorer screening behaviours. Religiosity was a uniformly non-significant predictor of screening behaviours. Finally, religious affiliation was inconsistently related to screening behaviours, but tended to favour religious non-affiliation when it was. Religion/spirituality does not appear to have a uniformly positive nor linear effect in predicting health-screening behaviours in women.
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